The Ural (SSW-33, Project 1941) was a reconnaissance ship of the Soviet and Russian navies with the same hull construction as the Kirov- class .
Since the Soviet Union had no bases or reconnaissance stations near the American missile test site at the Kwajalein Atoll, this forced the Soviet leadership to develop a large reconnaissance ship in the 1970s. The keel of the ship took place on July 25, 1981 in Leningrad, in May 1983 it was launched and on December 30, 1988 it was put into service. It should be used for electronic reconnaissance, missile tracking, space surveillance and communication. It had a CONAS drive with two KN-3 pressurized water reactors and two conventional steam boilers to achieve maximum speed or as a drive if the nuclear reactors fail. In the latter case, the fuel supply for the conventional steam boiler was sufficient for a distance of 1000 nm . The SSW-33 was assigned to the Pacific fleet, but there was not a sufficiently large pier for this ship and so it had to anchor off the coast with running machines to supply the systems and the crew. The ship never went on a mission, so it never reached its planned area of operation at Kwajalein. The powerful radio-electronic equipment gradually began to deteriorate. In 1992 the reactors were shut down due to underfunding. The ship was decommissioned in 2002 and brought to a dock for scrapping in 2010.
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