Eight crew members from the Nakhichevan remained missing Monday, the Russian Rescue Service said.

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Mr Aliyev licked his wounds and retreated to Nakhichevan, the region where he was born.

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Two of them -- the Volnogorsk and the Nakhichevan -- were already sinking when the third, the Kovel, hit the Volnogorsk and went down, the RIA Novosti news agency reported.

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Since Heidar Aliev, now 76, had a heart operation five months ago in the United States, two museums devoted to his genius have opened, one in the Azeri exclave of Nakhichevan, where he was brought up, the other in a suburb of Baku, Azerbaijan's capital.

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