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Sasha-class minesweeper

Soviet coastal minesweeper class

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ7425066 ↗
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The Sasha class is the NATO reporting name for a class of minesweepers built for the Soviet Navy between 1954 and 1956. The Soviet designation was Project 265.

Design

The specification for the design was issued in 1946. The ships were steel-hulled coastal minesweepers and were to replace wartime T301-class coastal sweepers. Following trials the bow shape was changed to improve sea-keeping and more advanced electronics and sweeps were introduced throughout the service lives of these ships.

Ships

At total of 37 ships were built at Rybinsk. The last two ships were retired in 1992.

See also

List of ships of the Soviet Navy

List of ships of Russia by project number

Equivalent minesweepers of the same era

Ham class

Van Straelen class

Atada class

Citations

References

Gardiner, Robert, ed. (1995). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1947–1995.

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“Sasha-class minesweeper” enters the record as soviet coastal minesweeper class. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Sasha-class, minesweeper and Soviet can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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