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Article: SOVIETS SAY 398 DROWN IN BLACK SEA TRAGEDY.(Main)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- September 3, 1986
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Byline: Combined wire services
The Soviet Union said Tuesday that 398 people appeared to have drowned when a passenger ship sank in the Black Sea early Monday after colliding with a freighter.
A maritime official said at a news conference that the ship, the Admiral Nakhimov, with 888 passengers and 346 crew members aboard, sank 15 minutes after it was hit broadside in darkness by the freighter, the Pyotr Vasev, eight miles outside the port of Novorossisk.
The official, Leonid P. Nedyak, who is first deputy minister of the merchant fleet, said there was no time to launch lifeboats.
The government daily Izvestia reported that hundreds of ...