Card Model Kit battlecruiser Pyotr Velikiy
Type: the heavy nuclear-powered cruiser
Series: navy
Country: the Russia, 2008
Scale: 1:200
Volume: 45 sheets A3 (11,7” x 16,5”)
Weight: 1 kg
Card Model Kit Russian battlecruiser Pyotr Velikiy.
Instruction: in English, German, Polish, and Russian (detailed illustrations are included)
For building you may need: scissors, glue for paper, sharp knife (or scalpel), awl, ruler, toothpicks or matches, cardboard (about 1 mm thick)
Even if you are the beginner in modeling, don’t be afraid to start with this model kit.
Instructions and illustrations, high quality printing and excellent coloring, perfectly selected details scale will make the process of building pleasant and amazing; at the end you will have a wonderful stunning model made by your own hands.
Prototype
Pyotr Velikiy (Пётр Великий) is a heavy nuclear-powered cruiser, the fourth Kirov class battlecruiser of the Russian Navy, originally named Yuriy Andropov (Юрий Андропов). Although the ship is not a battlecruiser by the traditional definition of the type, but a missile cruiser (official: "Heavy Rocket Cruiser"), its size has given it the unofficial designation of a battlecruiser in the mass media of many countries. Pyotr Velikiy is the flagship of the Northern Fleet.
Because of economic problems both before and after the fall of the Soviet Union, work on the ship was severely postponed. It was not commissioned until 1996, ten years after the construction started. It had now been renamed Pyotr Velikiy, Russian for Peter the Great.
After completing its acceptance trials in November 1996, the vessel was transferred to the Northern Fleet at Severomorsk becoming the flagship of the Northern Fleet.
In August 2000 Pyotr Velikiy was in the Barents Sea involved in the largest naval training exercise since the fall of the Soviet Union. The ship was to be the designated target of the Oscar-II class submarine K-141 Kursk, and was conducting evasive maneuvers when communication with Kursk was lost, the submarine apparently having suffered a catastrophic torpedo detonation with all hands lost. Pyotr Velikiy guarded the area where the submarine sank during the subsequent salvage operation in 2001.
In March, 2004, Russian Navy chief Admiral Vladimir Kuroyedov declared Pyotr Velikiy unfit for service due to problems with the ship's engineering maintenance. On April 19, 2004, it was docked in the floating drydock PD-50 for painting of the underside of the hull, repairs and examination of the steering system. The repairs were completed later that year, and it was carrying out missions again by August. Pyotr Velikiy has been known to carry two pennant numbers during its service; "183" and currently "099".
