Alesha-class minelayer

An Alesha-class minelayer
Class overview
Operators	Soviet Navy
Built	1967–1969
In commission	1967–1996
Completed	3
Scrapped	3
General characteristics
Type	Minelayer
Displacement	2,900 t (2,900 long tons) standard 3,740 t (3,680 long tons) full load
Length	99 m (324 ft 10 in)
Beam	13.5 m (44 ft 3 in)
Draught	5.4 m (17 ft 9 in)
Propulsion	4 diesels, 2 shafts producing 8,000 bhp (6,000 kW)
Speed	17 knots (31 km/h; 20 mph)
Range	4,000 nmi (7,400 km; 4,600 mi) at 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph)
Complement	190
Sensors and processing systems	Search radar: Strut Curve Fire control radar: Muff Cob Navigation: Don 2 radar IFF: High Pole B
Armament	1 × quad 57 mm (2.2 in)/80 cal. guns 4 × stern-mounted mine tracks equipped with 300 naval mines

The Alesha-class minelayers, known in the Soviet Union as Project 317 or the Alyosha Popovich class, were a class of three ships in service with the Soviet Navy beginning in 1967. Designated minelayers (Russian: zagraditel minny) by the Soviet Navy, they could also be used as netlayers, command ships and act in a general support role. Equipped with naval mines, one ship of the class was assigned to each major fleet, one with the Northern Fleet, one with the Pacific Fleet and one with the Black Sea Fleet. All three ships were deleted in the 1990s.