Soviet Aircraft Carrier Turned Failed Chinese Tourist Attraction Is On Fire

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A major *****, which may still be ongoing, has broken out on the former *******

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Minsk, which has been rotting away in a man-made lagoon just off a stretch of the Yangtze River in China for years now. The War Zone previously dove into the saga of how the flattop came to be anchored there in a feature you can find

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The cause of the ***** and Minsk‘s current status are unknown. Local authorities say the blaze broke out at around 4:00 PM local time, that there have been no apparent casualties, and that the incident is under investigation,

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Pictures and video footage have emerged online that show a significant *****.

Former ******* Kiev-class aircraft carrier MINSK appears to be seriously damaged by a major ***** at Nantong, China, where it was undergoing refurbishment. The ship was formerly a tourist attraction known as Minsk World.

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— Chris Cavas (@CavasShips)

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8月16日，江苏南通。停靠在苏锡通园区数年的前苏联航母“明斯克”号在拆除改造过程中发生火灾。官方通报目前无人伤亡。今年1月，南通宣布将以“明斯克号”为主体打造国防科普教育基地

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Fires onboard even well-maintained ships can easily become disastrous, especially if they are undergoing maintenance and only a skeleton crew is on board keeping watch. A prime example of this is

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aboard the U.S. Navy’s Wasp class amphibious ******** ship USS Bonhomme Richard in 2020,

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the

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. What is left of Minsk has not, by any indication, been kept in good shape, which could have create increased risks.

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A satellite image of the ex-Minsk at its present location in 2019.

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Minsk was commissioned into the ******* Navy in 1978. The Kiev class as a whole was something of an oddity among warships, with 40,000-ton-displacement vessels looking more like a hybrid of an aircraft carrier and a

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than a traditional flattop, as you can read more about

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After the fall of the ******* Union, the Russian Navy inherited the ships, but quickly found them difficult and expensive to sustain. In 1993, the Minsk‘s sister ship Novorossiysk notably suffered a major engine room *****.

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Minsk in service with the ******* Navy in 1983. DOD

Three of the four Kiev class carriers were ultimately sold off, with Minsk and Novorossiysk initially heading to a shipbreaker in South Korea. Admiral Gorshkov (originally named Baku) was sold to India in 2004 and became the subject of its own saga before finally entering service in that country in 2013 as the

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Novorossiysk was ultimately scrapped in South Korea, but local protests led to Minsk being sold off to a ******** company to be broken down. A group of ******** entrepreneurs subsequently saved the ex-Minsk from the torch. The ship, with a mixture of retired *******-design and ******** combat aircraft on its deck, became the centerpiece of a theme park called Minsk World that opened in 2000. Minsk World went bankrupt in 2006 and the ******** government eventually reclaimed the land it stood on.

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In the late 2010s, Minsk, already in increasingly poor condition, was relocated to where it sits currently, some 50 miles northwest of the ******** city of Shanghai. Plans to establish a new Minsk World never came to fruition and the steadily more dilapidated ship became a destination for so-called ‘urban explorers’ to sneak aboard, as can be seen in the video below.

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There are reports that authorities in the nearby city of Nantong had

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to rehabilitate the ship and turn it into a “national defense science education center.”

It’s interesting to note that former Kiev is also in China, where it became a separate tourist attraction at the

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in Tianjin, China, some 100 miles southeast of Beijing. In 2011, the company that owns Binhai announced plans to turn the carrier, which has been much better maintained than Minsk,

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The extent of the damage that former Minsk may now have suffered ******** to be seen. It is unfortunately possible that the ship’s already very sad story is now finally coming to an inglorious end.

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