Zhenya-class minesweeper
| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Name | Zhenya class (Project 1252) |
| Builders | Izhora |
| Operators | Soviet Navy |
| Preceded by | Vanya class |
| Succeeded by | Sonya class |
| In commission | 1966–1990s |
| Completed | 3 |
| Lost | 1 |
| Retired | 2 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Minesweeper |
| Displacement | |
| Length | 42.4 m (139 ft 1 in) |
| Beam | 7.9 m (25 ft 11 in) |
| Draught | 1.8 m (5 ft 11 in) |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph) |
| Range | 2,400 nmi (4,400 km; 2,800 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
| Complement | 40 |
| Sensors & processing systems | |
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Project 1252 'Izumrud' (Изумруд - 'Emerald') (NATO reporting name: Zhenya class) were a group of three minesweepers built for the Soviet Navy in the late 1960s. The ships were a glass-reinforced plastic (GRP)-hulled version of the preceding wooden-hulled Vanya class. They were intended to be a prototype of an advanced design, instead the Soviet Navy returned to wooden-hulled minesweeper construction with the following Sonya class. Of the three minesweepers, one was lost in an explosion in 1989 and the fate of the other two is unknown.