Login

 

Forgot password?
submarines shipbuilding Black Sea Fleet exercise Pacific Fleet Russian Navy Northern Fleet strategy cooperation Ukraine visits Russia piracy missiles trials Sevastopol history Sevmash presence contracts drills Baltic Fleet industry incident anti-piracy shipyards training Gulf of Aden frigate Somalia India developments reforms opinion Borei policy procurements Russia - India aircraft carrier Crimea arms exports USA St. Petersburg tests France financing Bulava Yury Dolgoruky Serdiukov US Navy cruise Mediterranean Zvezdochka NATO innovations Indian Navy United Shipbuilding Corporation Medvedev Arctic agreements commission Admiralteyskie Verfi Admiral Gorshkov Vladivostok Mistral accident hijacking corvettes overhaul Russia - France anniversary Admiral Kuznetsov Rosoboronexport Vysotsky event ceremony Yantar Severomorsk negotiations defense order conflict aircraft China deployment naval aviation investigations Black Sea Putin Varyag coast guard Vikramaditya Novorossiysk landing craft Far East crime marines meeting Severnaya Verf scandals memorials Syria traditions South Korea Japan statistics escort Neustrashimy Yasen tenders convoys Marshal Shaposhnikov Admiral Chabanenko Ukrainian Navy problems Severodvinsk Chirkov reinforcement tension tragedy firings technology hostages Caspian Flotilla Moskva upgrade search and rescue Baltic Sea frontier service Almaz provocation court rumors keel laying Turkey Dmitry Donskoy Kaliningrad World War II helicopters death shipwreck Kilo class Petr Veliky Admiral Panteleyev Atalanta Admiral Vinogradov Norway Rubin delivery launching patrols
Search
Our friends russian navy weapons world sailing ships
 
Tell a friend Print version

Kondopoga


Kondopoga. Photo from forums.airbase.ru

Kondopoga is a Project 775 Large Landing Ship (LLS)

REGISTRATION

Northern Fleet

CONSTRUCTION, NAME

The ship was built in Gdansk (Poland); commissioned in 1976. Till 1977 the ship's name was SDK-182, then BDK-182. In 1996 it was renamed into Kondopoga in honor of the town of Kondopoga which took patronage over the ship.

MILESTONES

In May 2008 the ship participated in landing demonstration on unprepared coast arranged for trainees of RF General Staff Academy.

Since July 10 through August 29, 2012 the ship was deployed in the Barents, the Norwegian, and the North seas, in the North Atlantic and various parts of the Mediterranean jointly with ships of Baltic, Black Sea, and Northern fleets under general direction of Northern Fleet's Kola Flotilla Commander RADM Vladimir Kasatonov from the board of landing ship Georgy Pobedonosets.

PERFORMANCE

Speed: 18 knots
Operational range: 6,000 miles at 12 knots
Crew: 87 men

DIMENSIONS

Displacement: 4,080 tonnes
Length: 112.5 meters
Beam: 15 meters
Draft: 3.7 meters

PROPULSION

CODAD powerplant, two screws, total power is 19,200 shp

ARMAMENT

2 coupled 57-mm gun mounts AK-725
2 launchers of MLRS A-215 Grad-M
4 launchers of MANPADS Strela-2
Capacity is up to 500 tonnes of armor vehicles and 225 marines