History of the Russian navy, during the 20th Century. Shown in dedicated web pages to each class of battleship, cruiser and destroyer. Battleships covered - Imperator Pavel, Andrei Pervoswanni, Sevastopol, Poltava, Petropavlovsk, Gangut, Imperatritsa Maria, Imperator Alexander III, Yekaterina II, Imperator Nickolai I, Izmail, Kinburn, Navarin, Borodino,  Frunze, marat, Oktyabrskaya Revolutsia, Parizhskaya Kommuna, Kronshtadt, Sevastopol, Sovietsky Soyuz, Sovietskaya Ukraina, Sovietskaya Rossia

Kosmonaut Pavel Belyayev at Malta, 30th June 1992.  

Former freighters rebuilt as space associated research vessels, 1977 - 1978.

Kosmonaut Pavel Belyayev at Malta, 2nd July 1992.

Gidrolog at Malta, 27th March 1995.

Yug Class research Vessel, launched between 1978 - 1983

Gidrolog leaving Malta, 30th March 1995.

BDK016 at Rozenburg, 8th July 1994.

Ropucha Class Large Landing Ship.  (No BDK016 is listed in our sources, the number could possibly instead be BDK046, Novocherkassk.)

Many thanks to Carl Proctor for Identification.

Russian civilian ship Kosmonaut Yury Gagarin.  Taken from RFA Grey Rover, North Atlantic, May 1985.

This ship was used for investigation into conditions in the upper atmosphere, and also for the control of space vehicles, and was completed in 1971.

802 Nanuchka III

Nanushka III class missile corvette

802 Nanuchka III.

Svietlana.

40 - gun screw frigate, launched 1858.  Remained in service at least until 1882.

Gun Vessel Zabyaka, 1878.

A large image size 10" x 7" approx, is available.  Reproduced from the original negative / photo under license from MPL, the copyright holder.  A signed numbered certificate is supplied. Price £25.   Order photograph here   Order Code  XMP5854

The crew of Canada, a Russian ice breaker.

The Russian hospital ship Orel  

Russian Battleship Peresviet and protected cruiser Variag in Port Arthur, 1903 / 1904.

Russian ship Ocean

Jenissei

Any information on this ship requested.  Email mail@militaryart.freeserve.co.uk 

Photograph on a French postcard dated 1904, of a group of Russian marines from the ship 'Smolensk'.  The only Smolensk ships we know of were later than this date, and were cancelled during construction, so any help with this photo would be appreciated.

Royal Yacht Livadiya, 1874.

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