Update: Why The Russian Navy Could Last Inward Serious Trouble

Following upwards on Oct 30's "Russia's exclusively aircraft carrier damaged later crane falls on it—and the drydock sank".
Ever since Tsar Peter went to England inwards 1698* Russian Federation has wanted a blue-water navy. Maybe they don't involve one. Maybe coastal/littoral is fine.

From The National Interest, Nov 9:

How i recent events could assist forcefulness some serious changes.

The sinking of the Russian navy’s biggest dry out dock could piece trouble, in addition to change, for the world’s third-biggest navy.

PD-50, a huge floating dry out dock at the 82nd Repair Shipyard inwards Roslyakovo, Russia, accidentally sank on Oct. 29, 2018 later an electrical malfunction resulting inwards pumps overfilling the dock’s ballast tanks.
Four shipyard workers were hurt.

Admiral Kuznetsov, Russia’s sole aircraft carrier, was aboard PD-50 at the fourth dimension of the sinking. The carrier remained afloat but suffered harm from a collapsing crane.It could accept years for the Kremlin to brand upwards for PD-50’s loss. In the meantime, the Russian fleet volition lack a floating repair facility for the 60,000-ton-displacement Kuznetsov in addition to potentially other large warships of Cold War-vintage.

Dry docks elevator ships out of the water, allowing workers to access their lower hulls for deep maintenance.

Even earlier PD-50’s sinking, the Russian fleet was slow replacing big, onetime ships alongside much smaller novel ones that can’t canvas as far or bear as much weaponry, but which are cheaper in addition to easier to operate in addition to repair than the onetime vessels are.

The Kremlin bought 4 new, modest warships inwards 2018. The Russian fleet numbers some 300 vessels, most of them displacing simply a few m tons of water. For comparison, the U.S.A. of America Navy has roughly the same position out of ships, but they are, on average, much larger.

Before, Moscow planned on extending the service lives of its carrier in addition to other warships from the 1980s inwards guild to complement the newer vessels. For long-range deployments across the Atlantic or to state of war zones such as Syria, Russian Federation tends to transportation Kuznetsov in addition to as aged, Soviet-built destroyer in addition to cruisers.

Newer corvettes, which are a fraction of the size of a Cold War cruiser, direct keep tended to remain unopen to home. In recent years, corvettes from the Caspian Sea fleet direct keep fired long-range Kalibr cruise missiles at targets inwards Syrian Arab Republic — all without always leaving Russian waters....MORE

*I've mentioned his catch a few times, unremarkably inwards reference to a well-known in addition to almost for certain apocryphal anecdote. Here's i version:

It was a dissimilar Admiralty in addition to a dissimilar country, a dissimilar fourth dimension in addition to a dissimilar place, the past times is a unusual dry reason etc, etc.
At whatsoever rate, an onetime tale virtually Peter the Great's trip to England inwards 1698 in addition to repeated inwards Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann in addition to the Greatest Unsolved Problem inwards Mathematics:

From his British trip the next storey is good known, though it is almost for certain apocryphal. Staying at John Evelyn's province line solid exterior London, Peter marched into the drawing room i 24-hour interval alongside a shotgun over his arm in addition to announced, inwards thick English, "I haff shot a peasant." "No, no, my honey fellow." replied his host, laughing. "You hateful a pheasant." "Nyet," said Peter, shaking his head. "It voss a peasant. He voss insolent, unt in addition to then I shot him." 

Great storey but non borne out past times the facts. Pete stayed at Evelyn's domicile inwards Deptford which was handy to the naval dockyard (an Admiralty Yard) where the Tsar went incognito to larn the tricks of the navy biz.
Not that it is impossible the author in addition to the Tsar visited the country identify but describing it as Evelyn's is incorrect in addition to shows a sure fast-and-loose approach to the truth. 

Evelyn didn't inherit the menage unit of measurement estate from his blood brother until 1699 past times which fourth dimension Peter had returned to Russian Federation in addition to begun edifice his navy, but this storey was told to me almost word-for-word the start fourth dimension I was described as insolent.
So I looked it up.

And for some argue recalled it inwards a transportation service about Crispin Odey.