The Russian Titanic
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Erscheinungsdatum
30.09.2026
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Englisch
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9798235869585
She has been called the Russian Titanic. Her real story is even stranger.
On the night of 31 August 1986, the Admiral Nakhimov was crossing the Black Sea on a routine passage from Novorossiysk when a cargo ship tore into her side. She sank in minutes. Hundreds of passengers and crew went down with her, in one of the worst peacetime maritime disasters of the Soviet era a tragedy the Kremlin tried hard to bury, coming as it did in the same terrible year as Chernobyl.
But the Nakhimov wasn't always the Nakhimov.
She began her life in 1925 as the SS Berlin, a passenger liner built for the Atlantic crossing. The Nazis requisitioned her for Hitler's "Strength Through Joy" tourism program, then sent her to war as a hospital ship on the Eastern Front. In the last chaotic weeks of the Third Reich, she took part in the mass evacuation of Operation Hannibal and was sunk by a mine before the war even ended.
The Soviets raised her from the seabed and rebuilt her from the keel up: new name, new flag, new purpose. As the Admiral Nakhimov, she carried a generation of Soviet citizens on Black Sea holidays and, according to some accounts, smuggled troops to Cuba during the 1962 missile crisis, at the edge of nuclear war.
She had already survived a world war, a sinking, and a Cold War in secret. She would not survive a summer night in 1986.
Drawing on survivor testimony never published before, Stephan Rosenburg tells the full story of the ship the world forgot and the disaster the Soviet Union tried to forget too.
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