Russian patrol ship Murmansk

	Volga, a similar Ivan Susanin-class patrol ship
History
→ Soviet Union → Russia
Name	Murmansk (Мурманск; 1996–2013); Irtysh (Иртыш; 1992–1996); Imeni XXVI syezda KPSS (Имени XXVI съезда КПСС; 1981–1992);
Operator	Soviet Border Troops (1981–1992); Coast Guard of the Border Service of the FSB (1992–2013);
Builder	USSR)
Yard number	02657
Laid down	22 April 1980
Launched	3 July 1981
Completed	25 December 1981
Decommissioned	2013
In service	1981–2013
Homeport	Murmansk
Status	Broken up
General characteristics
Class and type	patrol ship
Displacement	3,710 t (3,650 long tons) (full load)
Length	70 m (230 ft)
Beam	18.1 m (59 ft)
Draught	6.5 m (21 ft)
Installed power	3 × 13D100 (3 × 1,800 hp)
Propulsion	Diesel–electric; two shafts (2 × 2,400 hp)
Speed	15.4 knots (28.5 km/h; 17.7 mph)
Range	10,700 nautical miles (19,800 km; 12,300 mi) at 12.5 knots (23.2 km/h; 14.4 mph)
Endurance	50 days
Complement	10 officers; 113 crew;
Sensors and ; processing systems	MR-302 Rubka ("Strut Curve") surface and air-search radar; MR-105 Turel ("Hawk Screech") fire-control radar;
Armament	1 × twin 76 mm AK-726; 2 × 30 mm AK-630;
Aviation facilities	Helideck for Ka-27

Murmansk (

Federal Security Service (FSB) of Russia

. The ship was renamed again in 1996 and decommissioned in 2013.

Description

In the mid-1950s, the Soviet Union began developing a new diesel-electric icebreaker design based on the 1942-built steam-powered icebreaker

Project 97 icebreakers and their derivatives became the largest and longest-running class of icebreakers and icebreaking vessels built in the world.^[1]

The patrol ship variant, Project 97P (Russian: 97П), was developed as a response to the renewed interest of the Soviet Navy and Soviet Border Troops on icebreaking patrol vessels after United States Coast Guard and Canadian Coast Guard icebreakers began appearing more frequently near the country's northern maritime borders. New icebreaking patrol vessels were needed because existing Soviet naval vessels could not operate in ice-covered waters and large icebreakers, in addition to being unarmed and operated by civilians, could not be distracted from their primary mission of escorting merchant ships.^[1]

Project 97P patrol ships are 70 metres (230 ft)

Ka-27 helicopters.^[1]

All Project 97P patrol ships were initially armed with a twin 76 mm AK-726 deck gun and two 30 mm AK-630 close-in weapon systems, but the ships operated by the navy were later disarmed.^[1]

History

The final Project 97P patrol ships was

Leningrad on 22 April 1980, launched on 3 July 1981, and delivered on 25 December 1981.^[2] The ship was named Imeni XXVI syezda KPSS 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and entered service with the maritime unit of the KGB Border Troops in Murmansk.^[1]

Following the

Irtysh River. In 1996, it was renamed Murmansk after its homeport.^[1]

In July 2002, Murmansk made visit to Iceland.^[1]

Murmansk was decommissioned in 2013 and broken up in 2017.^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Kuznetsov, Nikita Anatolyevich (2009), "От "Добрыни Никитича" до "Отто Шмидта": Ледоколы проекта 97 и их модификации", Морская коллекция (in Russian), no. 8 (119), Moscow: Моделист-конструктор
^ ^a ^b "Мурманск". FleetPhoto. Archived from the original on 25 February 2019.

[kuznetsov-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Kuznetsov, Nikita Anatolyevich (2009), "От "Добрыни Никитича" до "Отто Шмидта": Ледоколы проекта 97 и их модификации", Морская коллекция (in Russian), no. 8 (119), Moscow: Моделист-конструктор

[fleetphoto_02657-2] "Мурманск". FleetPhoto. Archived from the original on 25 February 2019.

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