Today was walking around Skeppsholmen and noticed strange vessel name - “Xenia Onatopp”. Went to check up the information about the ship and found that it was build in the 90s in Petrozavodsk. There are about 30+ ships parked at Skeppsholmen and it was the only ship I decided to check up. I love coincidences like that.
Whoever wrote this information didn’t bother to translate the shipyard name and instead tried to mimic cyrillic characters with latin ones. So, the “Северо-Западная” (“North-Western”) shipyard became “Cebepo-3Amauahar”. People must be reading this and think “God, Black Speech of Mordor indeed was inspired by Russian language. Only true orks can come up with such a name”.
The reason why I was interested in this ship is its name. I thought, “who the **** is Xenia Onatopp?” Some innocent old greek nun from 200 years ago butchered by Ottomans for her faith she hasn’t betrayed? Icon of WWII Bulgarian-Romanian resistance, who scavanged Transilvanian forests with her brave, always-drunk guerilla fighters? Some long-distant cheap-ass side-branch of the Onassis family?
Turns out Xenia Onatopp was the evil-female character from 1995 GoldenEye. If you haven’t watched - check out this scene to get it.
There is almost nothing better than 80-90s brutal Hollywood depiction of Soviet-Russian villains. Love it.