The news a couple of months ago was that it had been accidentally stranded on that beach: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24305279 https://news.ycombinator

The news a couple of months ago was that it had been accidentally stranded on that beach: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24305279 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24305279 > Today, the Ekranoplan–the only Lun ever built—lies stranded off a beach in the Caspian Sea. This summer, the craft was in the process of being towed from a nearby naval base to a museum when something appeared to have gone terribly wrong. Instead of making it to its new home, the Ekranoplan ended up stranded in shallow water, where it's drawing visitors. https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/aviation/a33808381/russia-ekranoplan-plane-boat-wrecked/ https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/aviation/a33808381... However, this article today claims that the beach was the intended destination: > "Lun" will be the star of Derbent's planned Patriot Park, a military museum and theme park that will display different sorts of Soviet and Russian military equipment. Construction of the park is expected to start later in 2020. For the time being, Lun will sit alone on the beach. Checking the famous photo article that was already linked from that article two months ago, it seems that the “something appeared to have gone terribly wrong” was just speculation by Popular Mechanics: > This summer, Russian urban explorer Lana Sator, 31, read about the ekranoplan being towed by sea to Derbent, a city in Daghestan, where it is due to be moved into a "patriotic park” and put on permanent display. https://www.rferl.org/a/photographer-sneaks-inside-the-legendary-soviet-ekranoplan/30777774.html https://www.rferl.org/a/photographer-sneaks-inside-the-legen... Derbent is on the west shore of the Caspian Sea, close to Azerbaijan: https://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=derbent%2C%20daghestan#map=7/41.796/48.488 https://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=derbent%2C%20dagh...