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The keel-laying ceremony of the third ("second serial") Project 22220 icebreaker was held on 25 July 2016 shortly after the partially-assembled hull of Sibir had been moved down the slipway for final hull assembly. [50] [51] The vessel was launched on 27 May 2019 as Ural (Russian: Урал; after the Ural Mountains). [52]
Keel laying is one of the four specially celebrated events in a ship's life; the others are launching, commissioning, and decommissioning. Earlier, the event recognized as the keel laying was the initial placement of the central timber making up the backbone of a vessel, called the keel. As steel ships replaced wooden ones, the central timber ...
[1] [2] The coins are not normally fixed in place and are often retrieved when the ship sails out of the dry-dock, [3] (although they are sometimes welded to the keel). [4] The mast stepping ceremony is a similar event which occurs towards the end of a ship's construction, and involves the placing of coins underneath the mast of a ship. In ...
The U.S. and several other world leaders boycotted Russian President Vladimir Putin’s swearing-in ceremony for his fifth term Tuesday, though the ceremony did draw a few famous faces. Putin was ...
Putin won Russia’s stage-managed election by an overwhelming majority in March, securing for himself another six-year term that could see him rule until at least his 77th birthday.
Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers his speech during the Victory Day military parade marking the 78th anniversary of the end of World War II in Red square in Moscow, Russia, Monday, May 9 ...
Keel-laying ceremony for the first Arrowhead 140 frigate, now locally known as 'Red White' (Merah Putih) frigate was held on 25 August 2023 at PT. PAL's facilities in Surabaya. The ‘Red White' frigates will each displace about 5,996 tonnes at full load and have an overall length of 140 m.
Ural under construction at Baltic Shipyard in July 2019 with another Project 22220 icebreaker in the background. The tender for construction of two additional Project 22220 nuclear-powered icebreakers, referred to as the first and second serial vessels of the project, was announced at the keel laying ceremony of the lead ship Arktika on 5 November 2013. [6]