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| | Ocean Navigator Online - Admiral’s name dooms fate of Russian ships (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | When Pavel Stepanovich Nakhimov was born in Gorodok in 1802, few of the inhabitants of that tiny Russian village 120 miles west of Moscow could have guessed that this native son’s name would eventually be associated with bad-luck ships. |
 | | Pavel Nakhimov first entered Russian history books in 1853 when, as admiral of a squadron of the Russian Black Sea fleet, he blockaded — and then destroyed — most of the Turkish navy at Sinope. |
 | | Nakhimov assumed a mythic quality in Russia, much as Admiral Horatio Nelson had in Britain, with his name eventually lending itself to Russian monuments, schools, public buildings, medals of bravery and, not surprisingly, Russian ships. |
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