"Zheleznyakov" - a ship of the Navy of the USSR , river monitor of the project SB-37 . He took part in the Great Patriotic War . In 1967 it was erected as a monument on Rybalsky Island in Kiev .
| Zheleznyakov from March 18, 1958 - PSKL-4 | |
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 The Zheleznyakov monitor is a monument on Rybalsky Island in Kiev | |
| Service | |
 the USSR | |
| Class and type of vessel | monitor |
| Manufacturer | " Lenin's Forge " |
| Construction started | 11/25 . 1934 |
| Launched | 11/22 . 1935 |
| Commissioned | 10/27 . 1936 |
| Withdrawn from the fleet | 10.09 . 1960 |
| Status | monument |
| Main characteristics | |
| Displacement | 230 t (standard) 239 t (normal) 263 t (full) |
| Length | 51.2 m |
| Width | 8.2 m |
| Draft | 0.885 m |
| Reservation | board - 16 mm (citadel), 4 mm (extremities); deck - 4 mm; cabin roofs and towers - 16 mm; felling walls and towers - 30 mm [1] |
| Engines | 2 diesel engines 4-SD-19/32 [1] [2] [3] |
| Power | 2 × 140 l. from. [one] |
| Mover | 2 propellers |
| Speed | 8.3 knots |
| Sailing range | 3,700 miles in full swing |
| Crew | 72 people |
| Armament | |
| Artillery | 1937:
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| Flak | 1937:
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Content
- 1 Combat Service
- 1.1 Ship Commanders
- 2 Monument ship
- 3 See also
- 4 notes
- 5 Literature
- 6 References
Combat Service
The Zheleznyakov monitor is the lead ship of the SB-37 project of the Leninsky Forge plant. All six monitors of this project were named after sailors - heroes of the Civil War . "Zheleznyakov" received the name of A. G. Zheleznyakov - the famous "sailor Zheleznyak".
The ship was laid down in November 1934 at the Kiev Shipyard "Lenin Forge". In the fall of 1935 it was launched. It entered service on October 27, 1936 . He joined the Dnieper military flotilla . Since July 1940, after the accession of Bessarabia to the USSR - as part of the Danube military flotilla of the USSR Black Sea Fleet .
From the first days of World War II until mid-July 1941, Zheleznyakov and other ships of the Danube military flotilla, interacting with the ground forces of the Red Army , held the state border, not allowing the enemy to force the Danube .
Since September 1944, the monitor again on the Danube. He participated in the liberation of Bulgaria , Romania , Yugoslavia .
During the war , Zheleznyakov traveled over 40,000 kilometers, repelled 127 air attacks , destroyed 13 artillery and mortar batteries, 4 infantry battalions , 2 ammunition depots .
Ship Commanders
- Captain-Lieutenant A.S. Marinushkin (1938-1942);
- Captain-Lieutenant A.E. Kharchenko (1943-1944);
- Senior Lieutenant M. Ya. Kogan (1945).
Monument Ship
After the end of World War II , Zheleznyakov remained in service for some time. March 11, 1958 was withdrawn from service and disarmed. March 18, 1958 received the designation PSKL-4 and turned into a floating warehouse. The armament of the monitor was transferred to the Central Naval Museum of Leningrad , an armored tower with guns was installed near the Suvorov Museum in Izmail .
On September 10, 1960, it was excluded from the lists of vessels of the Navy of the USSR in connection with the transfer to the Danube Shipping Company , later it was used as a floating pier . In 1965, at the request of public organizations, the Zheleznyakov’s hull and armament was transferred to the Leninsky Forge Shipyard, the ship was rebuilt, and July 10, 1967 was installed on a concrete pedestal near the shipyard .
See also
List of warships-memorials and museum exhibits of Ukraine
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 Platonov, 2004 , p. 42.
- ↑ MONITOR OF IRONS Project SB-37. Library of ship engineer E. L. Smirnov
- ↑ Active monitors and SB-37 project. Chernikov I.I. Encyclopedia of monitors. Defenders of the river borders of Russia. 2007 (inaccessible link) . Date accessed October 24, 2018. Archived October 24, 2018.
- ↑ During the war, the quadrupled 7.62 mm M4 machine-gun mount was removed. Instead of it, as well as other additional weapons, the following were installed: 2 × 1 - 12.7 mm anti-aircraft machine gun DShK ; 1 × 1 - 12.7 mm anti-aircraft machine gun "Vickers" ; 2 × 1 - 37 mm submachine gun 70-K .
Literature
- Igor Vsevolozhsky. The elusive monitor. —M.: Military Publishing, 1959.
- The Elusive Monitor // Marine Collection: adj. to the journal. " Model Designer ". - 1985. - No. 3.
- G. Gusev. Elusive Monitor // Bonfire : Journal. - 1982. - No. 10.
- G. Reznichenko. Second Birth // Model Designer : Zh. - 1968. - No. 5.
- N. Badeev. I accept the battle. - Children's literature , 1973.
- Nikolay Badeev. A ship from the legend .
- Platonov A.V. Soviet monitors, gunboats and armored boats. Part I. - St. Petersburg: "Galea Print", 2004. - S. 42. - 120 p.
- Chernikov I.I. Encyclopedia of monitors. Defenders of the river borders of Russia. - SPb. : Shipbuilding , 2007. - ISBN 978-5-7355-0706-2 . Section I - head of the Danube military river flotilla of the Soviet Union; Section II Monitors on the Dnieper - Heads of the Active Monitors and the SB-37 project, MK-2-4 Tower Installation, Participation of Soviet monitors in hostilities. A brief description of the history, fate and design and a longitudinal section of a Zheleznyakov-type monitor with a description of the premises.
Links
- Monitors type "Zheleznyakov" (project SB-37)
- River monitors SB-37 series
- Type "Zheleznyakov" (project SB-37) - 6 units. Surface ships. Ships of the Navy of the USSR on the eve of and during the Great Patriotic War
- Mechanisms on the SB-37 ships
- Pinsk ships
- On the river front
- Khomenko A. I. Type “Zheleznyakov” . Monitors . Site "Ships of the Navy of the USSR on the eve of and during the Great Patriotic War." Date of treatment December 26, 2016.
- MONITOR "IRON" Project SB-37. Library of ship engineer E.L.Smirnov
- Zheleznyakov // "Water transport"