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The Model Basin is 'surviving'
through the Civil War and the post-war disruption. Practical
operation of the facility resumes only after the Government
approves the first five-year construction programmes for
commercial (1925) and naval (1926) ships. The Basin tests
models of Uragan ('Hurricane')-class escorts, submarines
of Dekabrist ('Decembrist') and Schiuka ('Pike')
classes and some other designs.
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A Pr.2 Uragan-class escort
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A Dekabrist-class submarine
of the 1st series (before upgrading)
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Stanislav O.Baranovsky
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The Head of the Basin is now
S.O.Baranovsky whose last rank in the Imperial Russian Navy
has been Major-General of the Corps of Marine Engineers.
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The Basin finds and employs
the cream of the surviving cadre of naval architects. Some
of them will later become prominent figures in the national
ship science.
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A group of Naval Engineering
College lecturers and cadets (early 1920's)
Third from the left in the first
line, stands Y.A.Shimansky, later an Academician and one of the
eldest staff members of the Institute. Third from the right in
the second line, stands V.I.Pershin, later a staff member and
then the Director of the Institute
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