SS Fizik Kurchatov

History
The ship «Физик Курчатов» loading the miisiles in Casilda port. The photo is captured by an RF-101 pilot with the 363rd Tactical Reconnaissance Wing on Nov. 6, 1962, while the aircraft itself casts a shadow over the port.
Name:	Fizik Kurchatov (Russian: Физик Курчатов) Call sign: UYOM ^[1] Register number: М-27551 ^[1] Class formula until 1975: ЛР4/1С РСМ ^[1] Class formula from 1975: КМ(*)Л3[1] ^[1] IMO number: 5404093 ^[2]^[3]^[1]
Namesake:	Leninsky Komsomol class of cargo ships, projuct 567 and 567К.
Owner:	June 1962 – 30 April 1986: Black Sea Shipping Company, USSR
Operator:	June 1962 – 30 April 1986: Black Sea Shipping Company, USSR
Port of registry:	June 1962 – 30 April 1986: Odessa, USSR 30 April 1986 - August 1986: Gorgetown, Cayman Islands
Builder:	Kherson shipyard
Renamed:	Kurchat, home port George Town, Cayman Islands.^[3]^[1]
Fate:	Scrapped at Kaohsiung (China) in August 1986^[3]^[1]
General characteristics
Type:	freighter, tweendecker
Tonnage:	11,206 GT^[2]^[3] or 12,127 GT^[1] DWT 16247 mt^[2]^[3] or 16225 mt^[1] Displacement 22225 mt^[4]
Length:	557.7 ft (170.0 m)^[4]
Beam:	72.2 ft (22.0 m)
Propulsion:	two steam turbine engines driving a single 6.3 m (21 ft) screw propeller
Speed:	18.5 knots^[4]
Capacity:	Bale capacity: 20220 cub m^[1] Grain capacity: 23763 cub m^[1]

Fizik Kurchatov (Russian: Физик Курчатов) was a multi-purpose tweendecker freighter owned by the Black Sea Shipping Company (Soviet Union). One of the Leninsky Komsomol class of cargo ships, it had steam turbine engines and oneproject 567K.^[5] The ship was named after Soviet scientist and physicist Igor Vasiliyevich Kurchatov (1903-1960).

Plan of Leninsky Komsomol class cargo ship equipped with cargo cranes, project 567K

The image of the Soviet ship Fizik Kurchatov on the badge. 1962 year.

This ship was one of the Soviet ships that took part in:

operation Anadyr
one of the nine Soviet ships that transported Soviet missiles back to the USSR from Cuba during the Cuban crisis.
1973 Arab-Israeli War

History

The keel of the ship was laid down in Kherson Shipyard on 20 of March 1961. By that time the Shipyard had built already seven sister ships.^[4]^[1] The ship Fizik Kurchatov was built and handed over to the Black Sea Shipping Company on 30 June 1962.

During the Cuban crisis.

The maden voyage was from Nikolayev to Cuba. The cargo on board was an air defense battalion including the equipments and troops. After the unloading the ship loaded sugar in Cuba and returned back to the USSR.^[6]

The Soviet cargo ship Fizik Kurchatov left Cuba on the 7 of November 1962 and was photographed by American reconnaissance planes during its return to the Soviet Union. The ship transported back to the USSR six canvas-covered missiles on the open main deck. These were the same missiles which had been aimed toward the United States. The Soviet Union, following the American blockade of Cuba, decided to send the missiles back to its territory.^[7]

1973 Arab–Israeli War

The Yom Kippur War, Ramadan War, or October War, also known as the 1973 Arab–Israeli War, was a war fought by the coalition of Arab states led by Egypt and Syria against Israel from October 6 to 25, 1973. Total 23 or more Soviet merchant ships carried military cargoes to Siria and Egyptin October and November, 1973 and eight of them were Leninsky Komsomol class of cargo ships. The ship Fizik Kurchatov was one of this seven Leninsky Komsomol class of cargo ships.

According to U.S. information the ship Fizik Kurchatov three time visited.:

the ship passed Bosphorus on the 9 and arrived Alexandria on the 12 of October, 1973;
the ship passed Bosphorus on the 23 and arrived Latakia on the 25 of October, 1973;
the ship passed Bosphorus on the 10 and arrived Alexandria on the 12 of November, 1973.^[8]

USSR created the new fleet of Ethiopia.

The ship Fizik Kurchatov brought on board and delivered to Ethiopia two Artillery Cutters Project 1400ME "P-205" and "P-206" in October 1982 when the Soviet Union created the new fleet of Ethiopia.^[9]

The fate

The ship was renamed Kurchat and changed home port to George Town, Cayman Islands, on 30 of April 1986 and scrapped at Kaohsiung (China) in August 1986.

References

Cold War

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1940s	Hukbalahap Rebellion Dekemvriana Yalta Conference Operation Unthinkable Potsdam Conference Gouzenko Affair Operation Masterdom Operation Beleaguer Operation Blacklist Forty Iran crisis of 1946 Greek Civil War Corfu Channel incident Turkish Straits crisis Restatement of Policy on Germany First Indochina War Truman Doctrine Asian Relations Conference Marshall Plan 1948 Czechoslovak coup d'état Tito–Stalin Split Berlin Blockade Western betrayal Iron Curtain Eastern Bloc Western Bloc Chinese Civil War (Second round) Malayan Emergency

1950s	Bamboo Curtain Korean War 1953 Iranian coup d'état Uprising of 1953 in East Germany 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état Partition of Vietnam First Taiwan Strait Crisis Geneva Summit (1955) Poznań 1956 protests Hungarian Revolution of 1956 Suez Crisis Syrian Crisis of 1957 Sputnik crisis Second Taiwan Strait Crisis Cuban Revolution Kitchen Debate Bandung Conference Bricker Amendment McCarthyism Operation Gladio Iraqi July Revolution "We will bury you"

1960s	Congo Crisis Sino-Soviet split 1960 U-2 incident Bay of Pigs Invasion 1960 Turkish coup d'état Soviet–Albanian split Berlin Wall Portuguese Colonial War Angolan War of Independence Guinea-Bissau War of Independence Mozambican War of Independence Cuban Missile Crisis Sino-Indian War Sarawak Communist Insurgency Iraqi Ramadan Revolution 1963 Syrian coup d'état Vietnam War 1964 Brazilian coup d'état United States occupation of the Dominican Republic (1965–66) South African Border War Transition to the New Order Domino theory ASEAN Declaration Laotian Civil War 1966 Syrian coup d'état Argentine Revolution Korean DMZ Conflict Greek military junta of 1967–74 USS Pueblo incident Six-Day War War of Attrition Cultural Revolution Prague Spring Malaysia Communist Insurgency War Invasion of Czechoslovakia Iraqi Ba'athist Revolution Goulash Communism Sino-Soviet border conflict CPP-NPA-NDF rebellion Corrective Move

1970s	Détente Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Black September in Jordan Corrective Movement (Syria) Cambodian Civil War Realpolitik Ping-pong diplomacy 1971 Turkish military memorandum Corrective Revolution (Egypt) Four Power Agreement on Berlin Bangladesh Liberation War 1972 Nixon visit to China 1973 Chilean coup d'état Yom Kippur War Carnation Revolution Strategic Arms Limitation Talks Rhodesian Bush War Angolan Civil War Mozambican Civil War Ogaden War Ethiopian Civil War Lebanese Civil War Sino-Albanian split Cambodian–Vietnamese War Sino-Vietnamese War Iranian Revolution Operation Condor Dirty War Korean Air Lines Flight 902 Seven Days to the River Rhine Struggle against political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union

1980s	Soviet–Afghan War 1980 and 1984 Summer Olympics boycotts 1980 Turkish coup d'état 1986 Black Sea incident 1988 Black Sea bumping incident Solidarity Soviet reaction Contras Central American crisis RYAN Korean Air Lines Flight 007 Able Archer 83 Star Wars Invasion of Grenada People Power Revolution Nagorno-Karabakh War Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall Revolutions of 1989 Glasnost Perestroika

1990s	Mongolian Revolution of 1990 Breakup of Yugoslavia Dissolution of the Soviet Union Dissolution of Czechoslovakia

Frozen conflicts	Abkhazia China Korea Nagorno-Karabakh South Ossetia Transnistria Sino-Indian border dispute

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See also	Brinkmanship NATO–Russia relations Soviet espionage in U.S. Russian espionage in U.S. American espionage in the Soviet Union Soviet Union–United States relations US–Soviet summits

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Soviet Union merchant ships which carried out military cargoes to Siria and Egypt in October and on beginning of November 1973, during Arab-Israeli War.^[1]

Leninsky Komsomol class of cargo ships	«Ленинский Комсомол» (Leninskiy Komsomol) «Физик Курчатов» (Fizik Kurchatov) «Химик Зелинский» (Khimik Zelinskiy) «Братство» (Bratstvo) «Красный Октябрь» (Krasnyy Oktyabr) «Ленинский Пионер» (Leninskiy Pioner) «Юный Ленинец» (Yuniy Leninets) «Парижская коммуна» (Parizhskaya Kommuna)

Slavyansk class of cargo ships	«Серебрянск» (Serebryanak, сухогруз пр.1563) «Суэц» (Suetz, сухогруз пр.1563) «Сосногорск» (Sosnogorsk, сухогруз пр.1563) «Северодонецк» (Severodonetsk, сухогруз пр.1563) «Капитан Шанцберг» (Kapitan Shantsberg, сухогруз пр.1563) «Командарм Матвеев» (Komandarrm Matveyev, сухогруз пр.1563)

Mezhdurechensk class of cargo ships	«Междуреченск» (Mezhdurechensk, сухогруз пр.В-44) «Марнеули» (Marneuli, сухогруз пр.В-44) «Мацеста» (Matsesta, сухогруз пр. В-44)

Kommunist class of cargo ships	«Хо Ши Мин» (Ho Chi Minh, сухогруз пр. В-40) «Николай Кремлянский» (Nikolay Kremlyanskiy, сухогруз пр. В-40) «Роза Люксембург» (Roza Lyuksemburg, сухогруз пр.В-40)

Other classes of merchant ships	«Советск» (Sovetsk, сухогруз пр. В-43) «Салават» (Salavat, сухогруз пр. В-43)

Other classes of merchant ships	«Охотск» (Okhotsk) «Смена» (Smena) «Северодвинск» (Severodvinsk) «Донецкий Металлург» (Donetsky Metallurg, сухогруз пр.1562) «Николай Гоголь» (Nikolay Gogol, сухогруз тип ПУЛА) «Николай Бурденко» (Nikolay Burdenko, рефрижератор тип НИКОЛАЙ ПИРОГОВ) «Глеб Кржижановский» (Gleb Krzhizhanovskiy)

Template:Soviet merchant ships during 1979 arab israeli war index

1 Refrigerated Cargo Ship 2 Heavy lift ship 3 Coaster 4 Collier 5 Cargo liner 6 Estuary tug

↑ Розин Александр. "Советский флот в войнах и конфликтах "холодной войны". Это - персональная страница Александра Розина >> Война «Судного дня» 1973 г. Противостояние флотов СССР и США на море. Chapter 9: Корабли эскадры конвоируют транспорты. Table: Список судов по американским данным вышедших из черноморских портов в Сирию и Египет в октябре и начале ноября 1973 г.".

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