Valery Babich

This name uses Eastern Slavic naming customs; the patronymic is Vasilevich and the family name is Babich.
Valery Babich

I built it: Valery Babich aboard the aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov
Born (1941-01-27) 27 January 1941
Zaporizhia, Ukrainian SSR
Occupation prose, novelist, essayist
Nationality Ukrainian
Genre Russian literature
Notable works Our aircraft carriers (2003)
Website
www.avianosec.com/aircraft-carrier.html

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.

Life

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.

Shipbuilding

In 1967, Valery Babich finished Mykolayiv Shipbuilding Institute. After graduation assigned to work to chief designer department of Black Sea Shipyard. He took part in the work of the weapons complexes of helicopter carriers Moskva and Leningrad. Later during 1970–1991 he worked on the construction of all soviet aircraft carriers: Kiev (1970–1975), Minsk (1976–1978), Novorossiysk, Baku, Tbilisi, Varyag and Ulyanovsk (1979–1991).

Literary creativity

Valery Babich engaged in literary and journalistic activities since 2000. He is a Member of the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine, Writers' Union of Russia, winner of the regional competition of Mykolaiv media ProMedia (2002) awards Golden Pen (2006) and named after Mykola Arkas (2012).

Selected bibliography:

Has published more than 50 articles on the history of shipbuilding in the newspapers and magazines of different countries (Ukraine, Russia, China, India etc.).

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