This "collective fiction" is interesting and funny, but i long wanted to post a legendary text about life on kuznetsov here(written 8 years ago, about more distant past). Seems like a true account - it looks like it doesnt contradict what is known about russian armed forces, and i'm not aware about any debunks. It is long though, i might not even finish posting today.
Here we go:

Why I went to serve. In my case, I had no choice. I come from a poor family, we never had any extra money for bribes, so I passed the medical examination - "fit" - "pack a towel and soap and go to the recruiting station tomorrow." When they asked me where I would like to serve, I answered that I would like to serve in the navy. Of course, I knew nothing about the "Kuznetsov." A small but important addition - I had an encounter with police(suspected of theft). And two months after I went to the army, my best friend was imprisoned for 6 years for armed robbery as part of a group. It is possible that I would have been imprisoned next to them, if at that time I had not been studying military ranks a thousand kilometers away in a crowd of bald "skinny" guys.

KMB. I will not describe the road, it requires a separate long story. I will write what happened next. We arrived in Severomorsk and were sorted for the KMB ("Young Soldier Course", if anyone doesn't know). It was just paradise here. Feeding - snow removal - learning the regulations - lights out. They even took us to the movies a couple of times. At home, I had never eaten so well and tasty, and three times a day. I thought that this was how you could serve and that it turned out that the army wasn't so bad. We took the oath, went to the training ground to shoot an ak several times. But even then, the first alarm bells began to ring. So, I was transferred from one cabin to another several times, while all my comrades had long since left to serve on their large landing ships, boats and coastal units.