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Russian Landing Ship Pyotr Morgunov
''Pyotr Morgunov'' () is an landing ship of the Russian Navy. The second of the class after her sister ship ''Ivan Gren'', ''Pyotr Morgunov'' was laid down in 2015, launched in 2018, and commissioned in 2020. She was assigned to the Northern Fleet's 121st Landing Ship Brigade. In January 2022, she sailed with several other landing ships to the Black Sea, shortly before the Russian invasion of Ukraine. She has since been based in the Black Sea. Design The ''Ivan Gren''-class landing ships, designated Project 11711 by the Russian Navy, were designed by the to replace the Soviet-era and large landing ships. The ships, a development of the Project 1171 Tapir design, are intended to land troops and transport military equipment over a range of . The ships can carry up to 300 troops, or 13 tanks, or 35 armoured personnel carriers or infantry fighting vehicles. The ships also carry Ka-29 transport-attack helicopters. Construction and commissioning ''Pyotr Morgunov'' was t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pyotr Morgunov
Pyotr Alekseyevich Morgunov (; 25 January 1902 – 29 September 1985) was an officer of the Soviet Navy. He worked in the navy's Coastal Troops of the Russian Navy, coastal defence branch and reached the rank of Lieutenant General. Born into a working-class family in Moscow in 1902, Morgunov joined the Bolsheviks after the October Revolution and fought with the Red forces during the Russian Civil War. He specialised in artillery, undertaking studies in the theory and practice of gunnery, and served in the naval coastal defences in the Black Sea. By the early 1930s he was in command of Maxim Gorky Fortresses, Armoured Coastal Battery #35 on the Crimean coast, eventually rising to command the region's coastal defences prior to Operation Barbarossa, the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941. Charged with defending Sevastopol from the advancing forces, Morgunov directed the fire of coastal artillery and the building of defences as the Siege of Sevastopol (1941–1942), Sie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
