Valery Babich
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Valery Babich | |
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 I built it: Valery Babich aboard the aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov | |
| Born | 27 January 1941 |
| Occupation | prose, novelist, essayist |
| Nationality | Ukrainian |
| Genre | Russian literature |
| Notable works | Our aircraft carriers (2003) |
Valery Babich (Russian: Вале́рий Васи́льевич Ба́бич) (born January 27, 1941) is a Ukrainian writer, ethnographer and journalist. Until 1991 was an engineer shipbuilder, head of the design bureau at Department of chief designer of Black Sea Shipyard in Mykolaiv on aircraft carriers and S.U. ground complex testing of naval aviation in Crimea. In the late 1990s, he began publishing articles on the history of the construction of aircraft-carrying ships, and in 2003 his first book, “Our Aircraft Carriers,” was published.
Born in Zaporizhia, Ukraine Valery Babich moved to Mykolaiv with his parents in 1950. In 1955 he entered the Shipbuilding Nikolaev College, which graduated in 1959. After graduating from college, Babich worked from 1959 to 1962 as an electrician at the Shipyard named after 61 Communards.