 Aerial view of Razumny, March 1944
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| History | |
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 Soviet Union | |
| Name | Razumny (Разумный (Sensible)) |
| Ordered | 2nd Five-Year Plan |
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| Launched | 30 June 1939 |
| Completed | 20 October 1941 |
| Commissioned | 7 November 1941 |
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| Reclassified |
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| Stricken | 6 February 1960 |
| Fate | Sold for scrap, 4 May 1963 |
| General characteristics (Gnevny as completed, 1938) | |
| Class and type | Gnevny-class destroyer |
| Displacement | 1,612 t (1,587 long tons) (standard) |
| Length | 112.8 m (370 ft 1 in) (o/a) |
| Beam | 10.2 m (33 ft 6 in) |
| Draft | 4.8 m (15 ft 9 in) |
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| Propulsion | 2 shafts; 2 geared steam turbines |
| Speed | 38 knots (70 km/h; 44 mph) |
| Range | 2,720 nmi (5,040 km; 3,130 mi) at 19 knots (35 km/h; 22 mph) |
| Complement | 197 (236 wartime) |
| Sensors and processing systems | Mars hydrophone |
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Razumny (Russian: Разумный, lit. 'Sensible') was one of 29 Gnevny-class destroyers (officially known as Project 7) built for the Soviet Navy during the late 1930s. Originally named Prochny, she was renamed Razumny before completion in 1941, and was assigned to the Pacific Fleet. About a year after the German invasion of Russia in June 1941, she was ordered to join the Northern Fleet, sailing through the Arctic Ocean. Together with several other destroyers, Razumny left the Soviet Far East in July 1942 and arrived in Murmansk three months later where she began escorting convoys, both Allied ones from Britain and the United States and local ones in the White and Barents Seas. The ship was badly damaged by German bombs while she was refitting in 1943 and was under repairs for five months. Razumny spent most of the rest of the war on convoy escort duties, although she did bombard a German-occupied town during the Petsamo–Kirkenes Offensive of October 1944.
After the war Razumny was modernized between 1954 and 1957 and was briefly reclassified as a target ship in 1960 before she became an accommodation ship later that year. Again reclassified as a target ship in 1962, she was listed for disposal in 1963 and scrapped.