Soviet destroyer Razumny

Aerial view of Razumny, March 1944
History
Soviet Union
NameRazumny (Разумный (Sensible))
Ordered2nd Five-Year Plan
Builder
Laid down
  • 7 July 1936
  • 16 August 1937
Launched30 June 1939
Completed20 October 1941
Commissioned7 November 1941
Renamed
  • TsL-29, 6 February 1960
  • PKZ-3, 15 September 1960
  • SM-14, 23 October 1962
Reclassified
Stricken6 February 1960
FateSold for scrap, 4 May 1963
General characteristics (Gnevny as completed, 1938)
Class and typeGnevny-class destroyer
Displacement1,612 t (1,587 long tons) (standard)
Length112.8 m (370 ft 1 in) (o/a)
Beam10.2 m (33 ft 6 in)
Draft4.8 m (15 ft 9 in)
Installed power
Propulsion2 shafts; 2 geared steam turbines
Speed38 knots (70 km/h; 44 mph)
Range2,720 nmi (5,040 km; 3,130 mi) at 19 knots (35 km/h; 22 mph)
Complement197 (236 wartime)
Sensors and
processing systems
Mars hydrophone
Armament

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.