&sq=Envato&lang=en&file=File:1973_CPA_4279.jpg) Soviet stamp depicting Soobrazitelny
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| History | |
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 Soviet Union | |
| Name | Soobrazitelny (Сообразительный (Astute)) |
| Builder | Shipyard No. 200 (named after 61 Communards), Nikolayev |
| Yard number | 1078 |
| Laid down | 3 March 1939 |
| Launched | 26 August 1939 |
| Commissioned | 7 June 1941 |
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| Reclassified |
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| Stricken | 19 March 1966 |
| Honors and awards | Guards designation, 2 March 1943 |
| Fate | Scrapped, 1966–1968 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Storozhevoy-class destroyer |
| Displacement | |
| Length | 112.5 m (369 ft 1 in) (o/a) |
| Beam | 10.2 m (33 ft 6 in) |
| Draft | 3.98 m (13 ft 1 in) |
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| Propulsion | 2 shafts, 2 steam turbine sets |
| Speed | 36.8 knots (68.2 km/h; 42.3 mph) |
| Endurance | 1,380 nmi (2,560 km; 1,590 mi) at 19 knots (35 km/h; 22 mph) |
| Complement | 207 (271 wartime) |
| Sensors and processing systems | Mars hydrophones |
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Soobrazitelny (Russian: Сообразительный, lit. 'Astute') was one of 18 Storozhevoy-class destroyers (officially known as Project 7U) built for the Soviet Navy during the late 1930s. Although she began construction as a Project 7 Gnevny-class destroyer, Soobrazitelny was completed in 1941 to the modified Project 7U design.
Assigned to the Black Sea Fleet, Soobrazitelny entered service a few weeks before Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union, began in June 1941. She participated in the Raid on Constanța and provided fire support to the defenders during the Siege of Odessa, in addition to service on escort duty through the remainder of the year. During the Battle of the Kerch Peninsula in early 1942, Soobrazitelny escorted transports and provided fire support for the landings, then herself was used as to transport troops in the last phase of the Siege of Sevastopol. After being repaired in mid-1942, she continued to conduct shore bombardments and participated in several raids on the Romanian coast at the end of the year. Soobrazitelny received the title of Guards in early 1943 and was repaired mid-year, seeing no action for the rest of the war. Postwar, she spent several years under refit and was converted into a rescue ship designated SS-16 in the late 1950s. Reduced to a target ship, she was scrapped in the mid-1960s despite an attempt to have her preserved as a museum ship, the last survivor of her class.