Soviet destroyer Minsk

Minsk
History
Soviet Union
Name	Minsk (Russian: Минск)
Namesake	Minsk
Ordered	2nd Five-Year Plan
Builder	Shipyard No. 190 (Zhandov), Leningrad
Yard number	471
Laid down	5 October 1934
Launched	6 November 1935
Commissioned	10 November 1938
Renamed	As Chorokh, 13 December 1954 As UTS-14, 27 December 1956
Reclassified	As a destroyer, 12 January 1949 As a training ship, 31 July 1951 As a target ship, 22 April 1958
Stricken	3 April 1958
Fate	Sunk as target, 1958
General characteristics (as built)
Class and type	Leningrad-class destroyer leader
Displacement	2,350 long tons (2,390 t) (standard) 2,680 long tons (2,720 t) (full load)
Length	127.5 m (418 ft 4 in) (o/a)
Beam	11.7 m (38 ft 5 in)
Draft	4.06 m (13 ft 4 in)
Installed power	3 × three-drum boilers 66,000 shp (49,000 kW)
Propulsion	3 shafts; 3 geared steam turbines
Speed	40 knots (74 km/h; 46 mph)
Range	2,100 nmi (3,900 km; 2,400 mi) at 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph)
Complement	250 (311 wartime)
Sensors and processing systems	Arktur hydrophones
Armament	5 × single 130 mm (5.1 in) guns 2 × single 76.2 mm (3 in) AA guns 2 × single 45 mm (1.8 in) AA guns 2 × quadruple 533 mm (21 in) torpedo tubes 68–115 mines 52 depth charges

Minsk (Russian: Минск) was one of six Leningrad-class destroyer leaders built for the Soviet Navy during the 1930s, one of the three Project 38 variants. Completed in 1939, the ship was assigned to the Baltic Fleet and played a minor role in the Winter War against Finland in 1939–1940. After the start of Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, Minsk covered minelaying operations and provided naval gunfire support to Soviet units. She escorted ships during the Soviet evacuation of Tallinn, Estonia, in late August. The ship was sunk by German dive bombers on 23 September, although her wreck was salvaged in 1942 and repaired. Minsk was recommissioned in 1943 but the repairs were not completed until the following year. The ship was reclassified as a training ship in 1951, then became a target ship in 1958 and was sunk that year.