Built as a cargo vessel of one of the Vytegrales type by A. Zhdanov, Leningrad for the Baltic Shipping Co., Leningrad.
Launched as YENSEILES (Miramar gives as ENISEYLES)
Tonnage 4, 482 grt, 2,065 nrt, 6,357 dwt. Dim. 121.95 x 16.74 x 7.1m (draught)
Powered by one B&W 9-cyl. Bryansk diesel engine, 5,200 bhp, speed 14.5 knots.
1964 Delivered.
1977 Redesigned only the hull and power plant where kept and rebuilt at Leningrad as a research/space control/monitoring ship for the Russian Ministry of Defence.
Tonnage 5,473 grt, 802 nrt, 2,590 dwt.. Displacement 8,950 ton
Range 16,000 mile. And could stay at sea for 90 days, but was running out of drinking water after 30 days.
Accommodation for 66 crew and 77 scientists.
Renamed in KOSMONAUT VLADISLAV VOLKOV, named in honour of cosmonaut Vladislav N. Volkov and 2 men crew which died during the landing preparation of the spacecraft “Soyuz 11”
Managed by the USSR Academy of Sciences.
18 October 1977 was first used in this roll.
Between 1977 and 1991 she conducted 14 satellite flights and at that time was she positioned in the Central and South Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico or Caribbean.
2000 Out of service and sold for scrap.
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2005 Was she deleted by Lloyds Registry.
Russian 1979 6k sg4951 scott?
Source: Soviet Merchant Ships by Ambrose Greenway. http://www.miramarshipindex.org.nz
Various web-sites.