The Kosmonavt Yuriy Gagarin ( Russian Космонавт Юрий Гагарин ; German cosmonaut Juri Gagarin ) was a Soviet ship for satellite positioning and control, which was named after the Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Alexejewitsch Gagarin .
The ship was built in 1970. The crew consisted of 360 men. The operator was the Soviet Ministry of Defense until the Soviet Union fell apart. The ship was then in Odessa as part of the Black Sea Fleet launched and scrapped finally 1996th
The ship was the flagship and the largest ship from the fleet of fourteen communication ships, such as the Kosmonavt Viktor Patsaev , the Kosmonavt Vladimir Komarov and the Akademik Sergey Korolyov and was used for communication with manned and unmanned spacecraft when they were not over the territory of the USSR . It also carried out studies of the atmosphere and space.
^ Nicholas Whitestone: Marine Review, Volume 73 . Lehmanns Verlag, 1976, p.192 : "Antenna systems of the Russian satellite tracking ship Kosmonaut Juri Gagarin"
↑ Seewirtschaft, Volume 7 . Verlag Technik, 1975, p.634 : "the flagship of the Soviet research fleet" Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin ""