 A postwar view of sister ship Zheleznyakov
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| History | |
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 Russian Empire | |
| Name | Zante (Занте) |
| Namesake | Russian capture of Zakynthos |
| Ordered | 30 March [O.S. 17 March] 1915 |
| Builder | Russud Shipyard, Nikolayev |
| Laid down | May 1916 |
| Launched | 3 April [O.S. 21 March] 1917 |
| Fate |
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| Armed Forces of South Russia | |
| Name | Zante |
| Captured | July 1919 |
| Fate | Wrecked in storm, February 1920 |
 Soviet Union | |
| Acquired | 1922 (raised September 1920) |
| Commissioned | 7 November 1923 |
| Renamed |
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| Reclassified | As a target ship, 1949 |
| Honours and awards | Order of the Red Banner |
| Fate | Sunk, early 1950s |
| General characteristics (as built) | |
| Class and type | Fidonisy-class destroyer |
| Displacement | |
| Length | 92.75 m (304 ft 4 in) |
| Beam | 9.07 m (29 ft 9 in) |
| Draft | 3.81 m (12 ft 6 in) |
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| Propulsion | 2 shafts; 2 steam turbines |
| Speed | 27.5 knots (50.9 km/h; 31.6 mph) |
| Range | 1,560 nmi (2,890 km; 1,800 mi) at 18.5 knots (34.3 km/h; 21.3 mph) |
| Complement | 137 |
| Armament |
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Nezamozhnik (Russian and Ukrainian: Незаможник, Ukrainian romanization: Nezamozhnyk, lit. 'poor peasant') was one of eight Fidonisy-class destroyers built for the Imperial Russian Navy during World War I. Originally named Zante (Занте), the ship was left unfinished during the Russian Revolution in 1917 and later captured by Ukrainian and White forces. The mostly complete destroyer was towed from her shipyard by retreating White forces and wrecked during a storm in 1920. She was refloated by the Soviets following their victory in the Russian Civil War and completed in 1923 as Nezamozhny (Незаможный).
Serving with the Black Sea Fleet, she was renamed Nezamozhnik and made several international port visits. Refitted twice during the interwar period, the destroyer served in the Black Sea during World War II, helping to evacuate Odessa, supply besieged Soviet forces in Sevastopol, and support several amphibious operations during the Kerch–Feodosia Offensive and the Battle of the Caucasus. The ship saw no combat after October 1943 after three destroyers were sunk by German aircraft in a single action. She received the Order of the Red Banner for her actions during the war. Nezamozhnik was converted into a target ship at the end of the 1940s and sunk during the early 1950s.
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