The Russian Navy has been using a shadow fleet in order to get around western sanctions. While the number of ships isn't ...

The Russian Navy boasts one of the most formidable warships in the world: the nuclear-powered cruiser Pyotr Velikiy—known in English as Peter the Great. Officially classified as a “heavy ...

The warship, dubbed Peter the Great after Russia’s first ... flagship of the Russian Navy until its decommissioning this year. According to the Sun, the gigantic ship was powered by two nuclear ...

While no official announcement has been made, the Pyotr Velikiy (which is translated as Peter the Great), the only combat surface nuclear-powered ship in the Russian navy, is expected to be ...

The Russian Navy isn't exactly the biggest and ... That leaves a single vessel, the Pyotr Velikiy (Peter the Great) as the only ship of its class that sails as the flagship of the Northern Fleet.

The Russian navy's Pacific Fleet is headquartered in the closed town of Fokino, in the far-eastern Primorsky Krai region on the Peter the Great Gulf in the Sea of Japan. All three vessels are ...

As a series of welcoming cannon blasts rang out from a nearby colonial fort, the Russian navy’s training class ship Perekop sailed ... “There’s a great Spanish expression that ‘between ...

Many navies have very old ships still in commission and on active duty. The U.S. Navy’s USS ... to raise and repair Soviet vessels. For their service during the “Great Patriotic War ...

CASH-STRAPPED Vladimir Putin is poised to send the flagship vessel of the Russian Navy ... ship Admiral Nakhimov has shown that this is very expensive.” Instead, the Peter the Great name ...

Longtime U.S. treaty ally Japan said it dispatched naval vessels to its northern and southwestern seas this week to monitor ...