Kosmonavt Viktor Patsaev

Kosmonavt Viktor Patsaev
(cosmonaut Viktor Pazajew)

Kosmonavt Viktor Patsaev in Kaliningrad

Ship data flag  Russia Soviet Union   other ship names Semen Kosinov (until 1978) Ship type Research ship Callsign UHTN home port Kaliningrad Owner Scientific-Industrial Association on Measuring Devices Shipyard A. Zhdanov Shipbuilding, Leningrad , Soviet Union Build number 684 Commissioning 1968 Decommissioning 2001 Whereabouts World Ocean Museum (Russian Музей Мирового океана)

Ship dimensions and crew length 123.14 m ( Lüa ) width 16.74 m Draft Max. 6.71 m displacement 9180  t measurement 6405 GT / 1921 NRZ

Machine system machine 1 × diesel engine (type: 9DKRN 50/110) Machine performance 3,825 kW (5,201 hp) Service speed 15.6 kn (29 km / h) propeller 1 × fixed propeller

Transport capacities Load capacity 2460 dw

Others Classifications Russian Maritime Register of Shipping Registration numbers IMO no. 6908888

The research vessel Kosmonavt Viktor Patsaev ( Russian Космонавт Виктор Пацаев , German  cosmonaut Viktor Pazajew ) is the last existing ship of the so-called Cosmic Fleet of the former Soviet Union . It is named after the Russian cosmonaut Viktor Ivanovich Pazayev , who took part in the Soyuz 11 mission in 1971 and was killed by a sudden drop in pressure in the cabin.

The ship has been moored at the pier of the Ocean Museum in Kaliningrad since 2001 . The handover to the museum saved it from the fate of the other 18 ships in the fleet that were scrapped.

Various exhibitions with interesting exhibits are currently housed on the ship , including models of the Energija launch vehicle , the Buran space shuttle , systems for treating drinking water in zero gravity, medical equipment and objects from the Star City Museum near Moscow .

history

The ship was built in 1968 as the timber freighter Semen Kosinov ( Семен Косинов ). The conversion to a research ship took place in 1977/78. On November 24, 1978 cosmonaut Viktor Pazajew was assigned to the Academy of Sciences. It had founded a space research service in 1962 and in the following years built up the Cosmic Fleet or Star Fleet with a total of 19 ships.

Identical ships were:

• Kosmonavt Pavel Belyayev (lead ship)
• Kosmonavt Georgiy Dobrovolskiy
• Kosmonavt Vladislav Volkov

In the following 16 years, the ship undertook 14 scientific expeditions to the southern and central Atlantic . Until 1994, the ship belonged to the command of the space missions, including Salyut 6 , Soyuz 34 and Salyut 7 . His task was to control communication with the cosmonauts and the orbits of satellites and to transmit the data to the flight control center.

On April 14, 2001, the ship was moored at the museum jetty in Kaliningrad, and on April 23, the exhibition Cosmic Odyssey opened on it.

In 2009, the funds for the maintenance of the ship were cut, it is currently six million rubles (about 137,000 euros). This means that only two employees, a helmsman and a mechanic, are still on duty. As a result, the ship loses its functionality and it is feared that here too there is a risk of scrapping.

literature

• Sigmund Jähn : Space experience . Military publishing house of the GDR , Berlin 1983.
• Gerhard Albrecht: Weyer's fleet pocket book Warships Of The World, 62nd year . Special edition, Bernard & Graefe, Bonn 1994/1996, ISBN 3-7637-4507-6 .

Web links

Commons : Kosmonavt Viktor Patsaev  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Transcription of the Russian ship's name according to the Soviet ship register : Register Book of Sea-Going Ships 1982, USSR Register of Shipping, 1982, p. 356 (English / Russian); similar to the transcription according to BGN / PCGN ( Kosmonavt Viktor Patsajev ).
2. ↑ ^{a b} Entry in the Russian Maritime Register of Shipping (English)
3. ^ Rudolf Hofstätter: Soviet space travel . Springer, 2013, p. PA90 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
4. ^ ^{A b} Maik Hermenau: The tracking ships of the cosmic fleet. satellitenwelt.de, December 14, 2011, accessed November 4, 2013 .