Word: nakhimov
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Japan. The echoes still reverberate. Spurred anew by an old tale that Czar Nicholas II's sunken fleet had been carrying a fortune in gold and other precious metals, a team of divers six months ago reached the 8,524-ton Russian cruiser Admiral Nakhimov, in 314 ft. of water 5.5 miles off Tsushima Island, in an area between South Korea and Japan that lies well within Japanese territorial waters. They surfaced with a dull silver, footlong, 22-lb. ingot bearing Cyrillic markings. Said Salvage Chief Katsumi Uchinai as he displayed the bar before a packed Tokyo press conference...