IV. Ask as many questions as possible to the following sentences:

1. The Peresvet – class ships were designed as essentially enlarged armored cruisers with good range and seakeeping.

2. The Admiralty Shipyard is one of the oldest and largest shipyards in Russia.

3. Military products include naval warships such as nuclear and diesel – powered submarines and large auxiliaries.

4. The shipyard was founded by Peter the Great during the Great Northern War.

5. Military shipbuilding consists of orders from the Russian Ministry of Defence and export orders for foreign governments.

V. Complete the following sentences using the text:

1. The Admiralty Shipyard is one of the ….

2. The shipyard’s building ways can accommodate ….

3. In 1997 the shipyard started construction ….

4. The shipyard’s military orders are primarily ….

5. The Admiralty Shipyards still keep ….

VI. Translate the following sentences from Russian into English:

1. Адмиралтейские верфи - одна из самых старых и крупных судоверфей в России, располагается в Санкт – Петербурге.

2. Судоверфь основал Петр I во время Великой Северной войны в 1704 году.

3. Танкеры ледокольного типа оборудованы новейшими автоматизированными системами мирового уровня.

4. Военные заказы этой судоверфи включают в основном строительство подводных лодок, а также модернизацию и строительство других подводных технических механизмов для исследований океана.

5. В течении последнего десятилетия, Адмиралтейские верфи построила 5 судов для компании «Лукойл».

VII. Translate the text: “Pyotr Velikiy”

Pyotr Velikiy is the fourth Kirov class battlecruiser of the Russian Navy, originally named Yuri Andropov.

Yuri Andropov was laid down in 1986 at the Baltic Shipyard (formerly Shipyard-189) in Leningrad. She was the fourth ship in what the Soviet Navy referred to as Project 1144 Orlan "heavy missile cruisers" (Raketny Kreyser). Kirov class ships have been the largest combat surface ships in the world.

In 1996 she was renamed Pyotr Velikiy, Russian for Peter the Great.

After completing her acceptance trials in November 1996, she was laid up at the Northern Fleet headquarters at Severomorsk awaiting completion and repairs. After they were completed, Pyotr Velikiy went on to become the flagship of the Northern Fleet.

On April 19, 2004, she was docked in the floating drydock PD-50 for painting of the underside of the hull, repairs and examination of the steering system. The repairs were completed later that year, and she was carrying out missions again by August.

VIII. Use the following words and word combinations in sentences of your own:

Shipyard, to be located, to accommodate ships, deadweight tons, to be founded by smb, to be administrated by, simultaneous transportation, ships systems of world class, to be able to run in solid ice, to export orders, non – military repair, oceanic development, the area of submarine shipbuilding.

VIII. Retell the text “Admiralty Shipyards.” unit 4. Naval architecture