Russian patrol ship Ruslan

	Ruslan's sister ship Ivan Susanin photographed on 1 May 1985
History
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Name	Ruslan (Руслан)
Namesake	Ruslan from Ruslan and Ludmila
Operator	Northern Fleet
Builder	USSR)
Yard number	02652
Laid down	26 December 1973
Launched	28 May 1974
Completed	26 September 1975
In service	1975–present
Status	In service
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
Notes	Armament removed

Ruslan (Russian: Руслан) is a

Admiralty Shipyard

in Leningrad in 1973–1981.

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]

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 third of eight Project 97P patrol ships was

Leningrad on 26 December 1973, launched on 28 May 1974, and delivered on 26 September 1975.^[2] The ship was named after one of the main characters in Alexander Pushkin's poem Ruslan and Ludmila and joined the Soviet Navy Red Banner Northern Fleet.^[1]

Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Ruslan was passed over to the Russian Navy. The vessel remains in service as of 2024^[update].

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f 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
^ "Руслан". FleetPhoto. Archived from the original on 12 February 2019.

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[kuznetsov-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f 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_02652-2] "Руслан". FleetPhoto. Archived from the original on 12 February 2019.

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