SS Fizik Kurchatov
ship built in 1962
SS Fizik Kurchatov (Russian: Физик Курчатов) was a Leninsky Komsomol-class multi-purpose tweendecker freighter owned by the Soviet Black Sea Shipping Company. She was powered by steam turbine engines. The ship was named after Soviet physicist Igor Kurchatov (1903–1960).
Fizik Kurchatov was one of the Soviet ships which participated in Operation Anadyr, as one of nine Soviet ships which returned missiles to the USSR after the Cuban Missile Crisis, and also took part in the 1973 Arab–Israeli War.
History
The Fizik Kurchatov's keel was laid down at the Kherson Shipyard on 20 March 1961. By that time, the shipyard had built seven of her sister ships. The ship was completed in June 1962 and transferred to the Black Sea Shipping Company on 30 June of that year.
Operation Anadyr
The maiden voyage of the ship was from Nikolayev port to Cuba. The ship loaded cargo in Mykolaiv port. Her cargo was an air defense battalion and its equipment.
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