Crimean Two-Step

In many books, our contemporary gets into a different era and begins there to carry out transformations that often don’t match his personal experience and available resources.

Here, in another era, found themselves sailors and marines of the Great Patriotic War under the leadership of the hero of “Crimean Tutstep”—the young 28-year-old vice admiral Matveyev. Three ships of the Northern Fleet: including a dock ship carrying a ship-repair workshop on board, ample spare parts, an oxygen detander, and vacuum electric furnaces. Along with him moved a supply ship with large refrigerated chambers, supplies of food, ammunition, and fuel—and one of the best types of destroyers of the Second World War, the “Fletcher” class. Most of all, it was people who knew how to fight and build—bound together by the discipline of the 1st corps of marines of the Northern Fleet, the experience of numerous landings, and the experience of industrialization of the 1930s. And they have a common goal: to return to the USSR.