''Kosmonavt Vladimir Komarov'' was a satellite tracking ship of the
Soviet Union
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 national ...
.
It was named after
Vladimir Mikhaylovich Komarov, the cosmonaut who died on
Soyuz 1.
It was built as an ordinary cargo ship in 1966 and converted in
Leningrad
Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...
in 1967.
It was decommissioned in 1989.
See also
* , another Soviet satellite tracking ship
* , another Soviet satellite tracking ship
External links
information on the ship
Ships of the Soviet space program
Ships built in the Soviet Union
Maritime vessels related to spaceflight
1966 ships
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