Kosmonaut Yuri Gagarin

The Kosmonavt Juriy Gagarin

Agar

Russian Maritime Register of Shipping

IMO 7116286

Kosmonavt Juriy Gagarin (Russian Космонавт Юрий Гагарин ) was a Soviet ship to satellite tracking and control, which was named after the Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin.

The ship was built in 1970. The crew were 360 men. Operators was the Soviet Ministry of Defense, until the Soviet Union fell apart. The ship was launched as part of the Black Sea Fleet in Odessa and finally scrapped in 1996.

The ship was the flagship and the largest ship in the fleet of fourteen communications ships such as the Kosmonavt Viktor Patsaev that Kosmonavt Vladimir Komarov and the Akademik Sergey Korolyev and served the communications with manned and unmanned spacecraft when they were not on the territory of the USSR. It also carried out investigations of the atmosphere and space.

1975 worked with the ship in the framework of the Soviet-American Apollo - Soyuz Test Project.