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Another accident comes to mind - sub-specced metal used for steam pipes on the nuclear cruiser Peter the Great. The pipe ruptured, 5 killed. After years of delays during the last years of USSR and the economic collapse of the beginning of 199x, the cruiser was rushed to get launched for the 300 years of the Russian Navy celebration deadline.


I looked at the Wikipedia article on that ship, and several other articles, and could find no mention of that. Are you sure it wasn't the Kirov?


https://lenta.ru/articles/2004/03/24/petr/ or https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/242286 (that being right at the time reports 4 dead, 2 heavy injured)

and it wasn't the only mishap, though the deadliest.


Ah, no wonder I couldn't find it--it's in Russian. Thank goodness for machine translation, and thank you for the links!




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