Minsk
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History | |
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Soviet Union | |
Name | Minsk (Russian: Минск) |
Namesake | Minsk |
Ordered | 2nd Five-Year Plan |
Builder | Shipyard No. 190 (Zhandov), Leningrad |
Yard number | 471 |
Laid down | 5 October 1934 |
Launched | 6 November 1935 |
Commissioned | 10 November 1938 |
Renamed |
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Reclassified |
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Stricken | 3 April 1958 |
Fate | Sunk as target, 1958 |
General characteristics (as built) | |
Class and type | Leningrad-class destroyer leader |
Displacement | |
Length | 127.5 m (418 ft 4 in) (o/a) |
Beam | 11.7 m (38 ft 5 in) |
Draft | 4.06 m (13 ft 4 in) |
Installed power |
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Propulsion | 3 shafts; 3 geared steam turbines |
Speed | 40 knots (74 km/h; 46 mph) |
Range | 2,100 nmi (3,900 km; 2,400 mi) at 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph) |
Complement | 250 (311 wartime) |
Sensors and processing systems | Arktur hydrophones |
Armament |
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Minsk (Russian: Минск) was one of six Leningrad-class destroyer leaders built for the Soviet Navy during the 1930s, one of the three Project 38 variants. Completed in 1939, the ship was assigned to the Baltic Fleet and played a minor role in the Winter War against Finland in 1939–1940. After the start of Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, Minsk covered minelaying operations and provided naval gunfire support to Soviet units. She escorted ships during the Soviet evacuation of Tallinn, Estonia, in late August. The ship was sunk by German dive bombers on 23 September, although her wreck was salvaged in 1942 and repaired. Minsk was recommissioned in 1943 but the repairs were not completed until the following year. The ship was reclassified as a training ship in 1951, then became a target ship in 1958 and was sunk that year.