Ship of Military Glory «Mikhail Kutuzov»
About museum
\r\nThe cruiser «Mikhail Kutuzov» was laid down in 1951 and sailed 211,900 miles before being decommissioned in 1998. It took part in the Arab-Israeli wars of 1967 and 1973 while serving as the headquarters ship of the chief Soviet military advisor in Egypt. In 2012 it was accepted into the Central Naval Museum as a branch and stationed in Novorossiysk. The cruiser «Mikhail Kutuzov» was the twelfth ship of Project 68-bis and served with the Black Sea Fleet, in the Mediterranean and Black Seas, as well as in the central Atlantic.