Cruiser Murmansk, May 2012

Since the ship was in very bad state when the decision to remove it was done, there was no possibility to tow it. It had to be removed piece by piece, so a pier was built around it to enable the contractor to remove it.

The Cruiser Murmansk in the old days before it was decommissioned. It was built in 1955 and decommissioned in 1989. Five years later it was sold to India for scrapping, but never got that far.