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A one of Armed ice-breaker of Soviet Border Guards. This ship was designed in the late 30's to combat illegall seal hunting in Barent's sea and laid down in 1938, but completed only in the early fifties. It served few years in the Barents before beeing transferred to the Pacific fleet and used there way untill 1990. She embarked first use of shipboard Helicopter in Soviet Border Guard missions from improvised wooden helipad build on the bow.
Posts:4714 Joined: July 27th, 2010, 5:10 am
Location: Finland
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In Leningrad. Yes the war drifted the project to be so long as it ended to be, there were more paramount needs for the factories than some oddball armed ice-breaker.