The ''Alesha''-class minelayers, known in the

USSR The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nationa ...

as Project 317, was a designation for a class of three ships used by the Soviet Navy in the 1960s.

Ships

The ships were named ''Pripyat'', ''Sukhona'' and ''Vychegda'', but were assigned the

reporting name NATO reporting names are code names for military equipment from Russia, China, and historically, the Eastern Bloc (Soviet Union and other nations of the Warsaw Pact). They provide unambiguous and easily understood English words in a uniform manne ...

''Alesha'' by

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References

{{Europe-mil-ship-stub Minelayers Ships of the Soviet Navy