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History
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Name	Peresvet (Пересвет)
Namesake	Alexander Peresvet
Operator	Northern Fleet
Builder	Admiralty Shipyard (Leningrad, USSR)
Yard number	778
Laid down	10 July 1968
Launched	29 January 1969
Completed	28 July 1970
Decommissioned	23 April 2011
In service	1970–2011
Fate	Broken up
General characteristics
Class and type	Dobrynya Nikitich-class patrol icebreaker
Displacement	3,350 t (3,300 long tons) (full load)
Length	67.7 m (222 ft)
Beam	18.1 m (59 ft)
Draught	6.3 m (20.7 ft)
Depth	8.3 m (27.2 ft)
Installed power	3 × 13D100 (3 × 1,800 hp)
Propulsion	Diesel-electric; three shafts (2 × 2,400 hp + 1,600 hp)
Speed	14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph)
Range	6,700 nautical miles (12,400 km; 7,700 mi) at 12.5 knots (23.2 km/h; 14.4 mph)
Endurance	17 days
Complement	39
Armament	1 × twin 57 mm AK-257 1 × twin 25 mm 2M-3M
Notes	Later disarmed

Peresvet (Russian: Пересвет) was a Soviet and later Russian Navy patrol icebreaker in service from 1970 until 2011. It had a 1968-built sister ship Sadko.

Description

In the mid-1950s, the Soviet Union began developing a new diesel-electric icebreaker design based on the 1942-built steam-powered icebreaker Eisbär to meet the needs of both civilian and naval operators. Built in various configurations until the early 1980s, the Project 97 icebreakers and their derivatives became the largest and longest-running class of icebreakers and icebreaking vessels built in the world. Two of the 32 ships built were armed patrol icebreakers with increased autonomy time and operating range that enabled them to patrol the western and eastern ends of the Northern Sea Route.

Project 97AP patrol icebreakers were 67.7 metres (222 ft) long overall and had a beam of 18.1 metres (59 ft). Fully laden, the vessels drew 6.3 metres (20.7 ft) of water and had a displacement of 3,350 tonnes (3,300 long tons). Their three 1,800-horsepower (1,300 kW) 10-cylinder 13D100 two-stroke opposed-piston diesel engines were coupled to generators that powered electric propulsion motors driving two propellers in the stern and a third one in the bow.

Project 97AP icebreakers were initially armed with one twin 57 MM AK-257 and one twin 25 mm 2M-3M naval guns, but later disarmed.

History

The second of two Project 97AP patrol icebreakers was laid down at Admiralty Shipyard in Leningrad on 10 July 1968, launched on 29 January 1969, and delivered on 28 July 1970. The ship was named Peresvet after Alexander Peresvet, a Russian Orthodox warrior monk who died in a duel at the beginning of the Battle of Kulikovo in 1380, and joined the 18th brigade of support vessels in the Soviet Navy Red Banner Northern Fleet.

Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Peresvet was passed over to the Russian Navy on 26 July 1992.

Peresvet was decommissioned on 23 April 2011 and broken up afterwards.

References

1. ^ Kuznetsov, Nikita Anatolyevich (2009), "От "Добрыни Никитича" до "Отто Шмидта": Ледоколы проекта 97 и их модификации", Морская коллекция (in Russian), vol. 8, no. 119, Moscow: Моделист-конструктор
2. "Патрульные дизель-электрические ледоколы, проект 97АП". CDB Iceberg. Retrieved 25 May 2023.
3. ^ "Пересвет". FleetPhoto. Retrieved 25 May 2023.

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