How it was 06.06.1998 (1998)

The death of the passenger liner Admiral Nakhimov on August 31, 1986.

It was the biggest disaster in the history of Russian civil navigation: "Admiral Nakhimov" collided with the bulk carrier "Peter Vasev" in Tsemesskaya Bay.

A total of 1,234 people were on board, 423 died, and the ship sank in a matter of minutes.

The investigation of the tragedy lasted six months.

The Supreme Court sentenced the captains of both courts to 15 years in prison, however, a few years later they were amnestied.

The captain of the cargo ship Viktor Tkachenko lives in Israel, other crew members refused to appear in the program; the captain of the Admiral Nakhimov, Vadim Markov, also refuses to talk to the press.

The surviving witnesses of the tragedy, together with the presenter, restore the course of events by the minute, tell about the accident and about the rescue operation.

The program is attended by passengers Marina Yakovleva and Igor Telesa, laundry hostess of the liner Zinaida Marchuk, bartender Evgeny Korotkiy, midshipman of the border boat "PSK-131" Alexander Gusev.

A fragment of the interview in the recording: navigator Nikolai Nikitin.

In the preparation of the program, excerpts of the newsreel "News of the Day" (1962, the return of "Admiral Nakhimov" from Havana, a meeting in the port of Odessa), the film "I loved you more than life" (1985, directed by R.R. Ismaylov), chronicle footage with a sunken ship, a fragment of the program "Time" from September 5, 1986 with the plot of the border guards who took part in the rescue of people, footage of the meeting of passengers of the Admiral Nakhimov on August 31, 1991.