&sq=Qlik&lang=&file=File:Unidentified_Project_7U_in_the_Black_Sea.jpg) An unidentified Storozhevoy-class destroyer in the Black Sea
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| History | |
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 Soviet Union | |
| Name | Svobodny (Свободный (Free)) |
| Ordered | 2nd Five-Year Plan |
| Builder | |
| Yard number | 246 |
| Laid down | 1938 |
| Launched | 25 February 1939 |
| Commissioned | 2 January 1942 |
| Fate | |
| General characteristics (Storozhevoy, 1941) | |
| 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 | 40.3 knots (74.6 km/h; 46.4 mph) (trials) |
| Endurance | 1,380–2,700 nmi (2,560–5,000 km; 1,590–3,110 mi) at 19 knots (35 km/h; 22 mph) |
| Complement | 207 (271 wartime) |
| Sensors and processing systems | Mars hydrophones |
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Svobodny (Russian: Свободный, lit. 'Free') 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, Svobodny was completed in early 1942 to the modified Project 7U design.
Still incomplete when Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union, began in June 1941, she had to be moved twice to prevent her capture by the Germans. Once completed, the destroyer began to transport supplies and troops into besieged Sevastopol and to provide naval gunfire support for the defenders of the city and Soviet troops in the Battle of the Kerch Peninsula. While moored there in early June, Svobodny sank after being struck by German bombs with the loss of 67 crewmen. Her wreck was refloated and scrapped in 1953.