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Georgy Pobedonosets
Georgy Pobedonosets. Photo from navalcadet.narod.ru
Georgy Pobedonosets is a Project 775 Large Landing Ship (LLS)
REGISTRATION
Northern FleetCONSTRUCTION, NAME
The ship was built in Gdansk (Poland) in 1984 and commissioned in 1985. Initially, it was named BDK-45; On July 27, 2002 the ship was renamed into Georgy Pobedonosets.MILESTONES
The ship was repeatedly ranked as the best ship in unit and division.Two times she was twice named the best Northern Fleet's surface ship as for results of 1999.
The ship is awarded with Diploma of Murmansk Region Governor.
In September 2007 she took part in joint naval exercise with Norwegian floating base Horten in the Barents Sea.
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 knotsOperational range: 6,000 miles at 12 knots
Crew: 87 men
DIMENSIONS
Displacement: 4,080 tonnesLength: 112.5 meters
Beam: 15 meters
Draft: 3.7 meters
PROPULSION
CODAD powerplant, two screws, total power is 19,200 shpARMAMENT
2 coupled 57-mm gun mounts AK-7252 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