Хмельнов И. Российский флот. Доблесть и нищета.

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Khmelnov I. Russian fleet. Valor and poverty (notes of an admiral). M.: AST, 2003. 652 p. + 80 pp. Hard cover. Enlarged format. Many illustrations.

The book is in good condition, you can see from the cut of the pages that it has been read, but not read. Binding with minor wear.

The author of this revealing book is Igor Nikolaevich Khmelnov, a disgraced admiral of the Russian Navy. Over twenty years of service in the Northern Fleet and seven in the Pacific Fleet, he rose from lieutenant to admiral, chief of the Main Staff of the Russian Navy. He had to command all types of surface ships. The author deeply understands the strategic importance of the fleet for modern Russia, reveals the causes of its current crisis, and illuminates the thirty-year period in its development. The retired admiral does not pass over in silence the situation that developed in the highest military circles of Russia in the mid-90s, at the height of dramatic changes in the post-Soviet space. The book is primarily addressed to those whom Admiral Khmelnov knows and remembers - these are the military sailors of Kaliningrad, St. Petersburg, Severomorsk, Kamchatka, Vladivostok. And also to all those who care about the fate of the Fatherland.

Contents. Fleet and fate. The origins of the tragedy of the APKR `Kursk`. Russian warships and their fates. So does Russia need a navy? 20 years in the Northern Fleet. Combat service and naval exercises. Pacific Fleet 1989 - 1996 Navy and peacekeeping.