The Yevgenya class, Soviet designation Project 1258 ''Korund'', are a series of

minesweeper A minesweeper is a small warship designed to remove or detonate naval mines. Using various mechanisms intended to counter the threat posed by naval mines, minesweepers keep waterways clear for safe shipping. History The earliest known usage of ...

s built for the Soviet Navy and export customers between 1967 and 1980.

Design

The Yevgenya class were small

s built for inshore work. The hulls were constructed of glass-reinforced plastic. As built they had a

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of , normally , at full load and maximum . The Yevegenya class measured

long overall __NOTOC__ Length overall (LOA, o/a, o.a. or oa) is the maximum length of a vessel's hull measured parallel to the waterline. This length is important while docking the ship. It is the most commonly used way of expressing the size of a ship, an ...

between perpendiculars Length between perpendiculars (often abbreviated as p/p, p.p., pp, LPP, LBP or Length BPP) is the length of a ship along the summer load line from the forward surface of the stem, or main bow perpendicular member, to the after surface of the ster ...

and at the

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with an extreme beam of and at the waterline. The vessel had a normal draught of and fully load. As built, the minesweepers were powered by two

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s turning two propeller shafts creating . This gave the ships a maximum speed of and a range of at . They carried of

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. The vessels were armed with twin-mounted machine guns. They were equipped with MT-34, AT-2, SEMT-3, Neva and GKT-3 sweeps. The minesweepers mounted MG-7

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. They had a complement of 10.

Ships

The following navies Yevgenya-class minesweepers in service: *

Angolan Navy The Angolan Navy ( pt, Marinha de Guerra Angolana) or MGA is the naval branch of the Angolan Armed Forces and is tasked with protecting Angola's 1,600 km long coastline. The Angolan Navy has approximately 1,000 personnel. History The Angolan Na ...

- 2 * Russian Navy - about 45 in service in 1995 *

Azerbaijan Navy The Azerbaijan Navy ( az, Azərbaycan Hərbi Dəniz Qüvvələri) is the naval component of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces operating in the Caspian Sea. History The inception of Azerbaijani Naval Forces dates back to August 5, 1919, when the gove ...

- 5 ships *

Bulgarian Navy The Bulgarian Navy ( bg, Военноморски сили на Република България, Voennomorski sili na Republika Balgariya, lit=Naval Forces of the Republic of Bulgaria) is the navy of the Republic of Bulgaria and forms part of ...

- 4 ships in service *

Cuban Navy The Cuban Revolutionary Navy ( es, Marina de Guerra Revolucionaria) is the navy of Cuba. History The Constitutional Navy of Cuba was the navy of Cuba that existed prior to 1959. During World War II, it sank the German submarine ''U-176'' on 15 ...

- 11 ships transferred *

Indian Navy The Indian Navy is the maritime branch of the Indian Armed Forces. The President of India is the Supreme Commander of the Indian Navy. The Chief of Naval Staff, a four-star admiral, commands the navy. As a blue-water navy, it operates si ...

- 7 ships transferred *

Iraqi Navy The Iraqi Naval Forces (Arabic: القوات البحرية العراقية), or the Iraqi Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the Armed forces of Iraq. Formed in 1937, initially as the ''Iraqi Coastal Defense Force,'' its primary resp ...

- 3 ships (transferred in 1975) *

Mozambique Mozambique (), officially the Republic of Mozambique ( pt, Moçambique or , ; ny, Mozambiki; sw, Msumbiji; ts, Muzambhiki), is a country located in southeastern Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi ...

- 2 ships transferred *

Nicaraguan Navy The Nicaraguan Navy, officially the Naval Force of the Nicaraguan Army, ( es, Fuerza Naval del Ejercito de Nicaragua) is the naval service branch of the Nicaraguan Armed Forces. The navy's mission is to ensure the defense and security of the is ...

- 4 ships (ex Cuban) *

Syrian Navy The Syrian Navy, officially the Syrian Arab Navy ( ar, الْبَحْرِيَّةُ الْعَرَبِيَّةُ السُّورِيَّةُ, al-Baḥrīyah al-ʿArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is the navy branch of the Syrian Armed Forces. The main role ...

- 5 ships transferred *

Vietnam Navy The Vietnam People's Navy (VPN; vi, Hải quân nhân dân Việt Nam), or the Naval Service (), also known as the Vietnamese People's Navy or simply Vietnam/Vietnamese Navy (), is the naval branch of the Vietnam People's Army and is responsi ...

2 ships *

Yemen Navy The Yemeni Navy and Coastal Defence Forces is the maritime component of the armed forces of Yemen. Yemen's navy was created in 1990 when North and South Yemen united. Yemen early on had problems with trying to keep drugs from entering Yemen by ...

- 2 ships transferred

Notes

Sources

External links

All Yevgenya-class minesweepers - Complete Ship List
{{Soviet and Russian ships after 1945 Mine warfare vessel classes Minesweepers of the Soviet Navy Minesweepers of the Azerbaijani Navy Minesweepers of the Cuban Navy Minesweepers of the Russian Navy Minesweepers of the Syrian Navy Minesweepers of the Ukrainian Navy Minesweepers of the Vietnam People's Navy

Design

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