Military Remnants

Not to suck dry an inter­est­ing blog, but Eng­lishRus­sia had another fas­cin­at­ing post this morn­ing. Its a won­der­ful col­lec­tion of tagged Google Earth shots from Rus­sian mil­it­ary sites. I was par­tic­u­larly inter­ested to see that the ‘Kirov’ is still float­ing. Not sure if its still in act­ive ser­vice, but is is moored at one of the North­ern Fleets docks in the one pic­ture. I always fan­cied that the lines of the Kirov were par­tic­u­larly grace­ful. I am not miss­ing the fact that its a rather potent killing machine, but am appre­ci­at­ing the aes­thet­ics of the design. For what is is worth, you can find more inform­a­tion about the Kirov on Wiki­pe­dia or at Mark Meredith’s Kirov Page. I know its a bit of a guy thing, and I am reminded of both Tony Soprano’s addic­tion to war doc­u­ment­ar­ies as well as Den­nis Leary’s Asshole song. I am chided, but still mildly intrigued.