Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin is a Soviet scientific research vessel that was part of the command and measurement complex of the USSR and designed to control the flight of spacecraft, including for issuing executive commands, performing trajectory and telemetry measurements and maintaining voice communications of the Mission Control Center with crews spaceships and stations. On board the vessel was the Operational Group of the Mission Control Center, and, if necessary, the technical capabilities of the vessel made it possible to assume the functions of the Mission Control Center for spacecraft. The largest and most powerful ship in its class. Named in honor of Yuri Alekseevich Gagarin by Decree of the Council of Ministers of the USSR No. 112-41 of February 10, 1969.
| Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin | |
|---|---|
 "Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin" in the open sea | |
| Flag |  the USSR |
| Title | Sofia (modification) |
| Named after | |
| Class and type of vessel | Research vessel , project 1909 Phoenix |
| Port of registry | Odessa , USSR |
| IMO Number | 7038757 |
| Call sign | UKFI |
| Organization | USSR Academy of Sciences |
| Manufacturer | Baltic factory |
| Launched | 1971 year |
| Commissioned | 1971 year |
| Withdrawn from the fleet | 1991 year |
| Status | Recycled in 1996 |
| Main characteristics | |
| Displacement | 45,000 tons |
| Length | 231.6 meters |
| Width | 31 meter |
| Height | 15.4 meters |
| Draft | 8.5 meters |
| Power | 19,000 horsepower |
| Speed | 18 knots |
| Autonomy of swimming | 20,000 miles |
| Crew | 140 people |
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History
Built in 1971 in Leningrad as project 1909 on the basis of the tanker of project 1552 . Chief Designer D. G. Sokolov . The longest length is 231.6 m, the largest width is 31.0 m, the side height at the midsection is 15.4 m. Displacement with full reserves of 45,000 tons [1] , draft is 8.5 m. Steam-turbine power plant with a capacity of 19,000 liters. with., the maximum speed of up to 18 knots. Cruising range of 20,000 miles. Ship stocks: boiler fuel (fuel oil) - 9000 tons, diesel fuel - 1850 tons, lubricating oils - 115 tons, boiler water - 80 tons, drinking and washing water - 2100 tons, provisions - 180 tons. The reserves of provisions, fuel and oil are calculated for 130 days, fresh water reserves - for 60 days. In addition, fresh water could be obtained from two desalination plants , the productivity of which was 40 tons per day. The crew consists of 140 people, expeditions - 215 people. The navigation area is not limited to the seaworthiness of the vessel.
It was assigned to the port of Odessa . From 1971 to 1991, the ship completed 20 expeditionary voyages in the Atlantic Ocean . His tasks included the flight control of artificial Earth satellites and manned spacecraft , as well as automatic interplanetary stations .
After the collapse of the USSR, the ship passed into the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine , was not used for its intended purpose, it was based in the Yuzhny port near Odessa . The ship suffered the fate of the bulk of the Soviet Maritime Space Fleet (regardless of the country of origin) - in 1996 the ship was sold for scrap at a price of $ 170 per tonne to the Austrian firm Zuid Merkur. The last trip to the disposal of the Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin left June 24, 1996 from the port of Ilyichevsk. August 1, 1996 at 5 p.m. 15 minutes. ship ran aground in Alang
Captains
- 1971-1973 - Sidorov Boris Konstantinovich
- 1973-1975 - Lev Kravtsov Filippovich
- 1975-1977 - Shevchenko Alexey Ilyich
- 1977—1980 - Victor Bezpalov
- 1980—1986 - Grigoriev Georgy Fedorovich
- 1986—1986 - Buraga Gennady Petrovich
- 1986—1988 - Grigoriev Georgy Fedorovich
- 1988—1988 - Georgy Ivanovich Apanasenko
- 1988—1991 - Grigoriev Georgy Fedorovich
- 1991-1996 - Malyarchuk Vladimir Efimovich
See also
- SKI OMER USSR Academy of Sciences
- List of Soviet / Russian ships by project
- Academician Sergey Korolev
- Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov
- Cosmonaut Vladislav Volkov
- Cosmonaut George Dobrovolsky
- Cosmonaut Victor Patsaev
- Ship SSV-33 "Ural"
Notes
Literature
- NIS "Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin" .
- NIS "Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin" // Encyclopedia of ships.
- A. Karpenko, ABM and Space Defense , Nevsky Bastion, No. 4, 1999, pp. 2-47, Federation of American Scientists (Online)