The engineer-shipbuilder, the developer of the Soviet aircraft-carrying cruisers Valery Babich moved from the Ukrainian Nikolaev to the Chinese Qingdao. There he will work in the research institute of special shipbuilding, reports citing china. com Russian military blog bmpd, which is conducted by representatives of the Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies. Babich until 1991 was the head of the design bureau in the department of the chief designer of the Black Sea Shipbuilding Plant in Nikolaev on aircraft carriers and the ground complex of tests of ship aviation "Nitka" (for the aircraft carrying cruisers "Baku", "Tbilisi", "Novorossiysk", "Varyag")..

Currently, the armed forces of the Chinese Navy consists of one aircraft carrier, Liaoning, completed in China on the basis of the former Soviet heavy aircraft carrier Varyag purchased from Kiev in the late 1990s. In August, it was reported that the first aircraft carrier of the project 001A. Launched in April, the ship was modeled after Liaoning, but it has several large dimensions and a number of design changes.

The designer of Soviet aircraft carriers will move from Ukraine to China.