Kosmonaut Vladimir Komarov

The Kosmonavt Vladimir Komarov

Genichesk (1966 /67)

Russian Maritime Register of Shipping

IMO 6707404

Vladimir Komarov Kosmonavt (Russian Космонавт Владимир Комаров ) was a Soviet ship to satellite tracking and control, which was named after the Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov, who was killed during flight of Soyuz 1.

The ship was built in 1967 in Kherson as a cargo ship Genichesk the Poltava- class and soon after in Leningrad ( now St Petersburg) converted into a tracking ship type project in 1917 and renamed Vladimir Komarov Kosmonavt. Its home port was Odessa. Even before the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989 moved to Leningrad, to be converted into a polar research ship.

The ship was the first ship in the fleet of Soviet ships communication, such as the Kosmonawt Yuri Gagarin, Kosmonavt Viktor Patsayev Akademik Sergei Korolev and and served the communications with manned and unmanned spacecraft when they were not on the territory of the USSR. The use of the joint flight of Soyuz 6, 7 and 8 became known