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Soviet Frigate Dzerzhinskiy
''Dzerzhinskiy'' (also transliterated ''Dzerzhinsky'', ) was a Project 11351 Krivak-class frigate, Nerey-class frigate (NATO reporting name Krivak III) of the Coast Guard (Russia), Coast Guard of the Federal Security Service of Russia. Design and description ''Dzerzhinskiy'' was one of nine Krivak-class frigate, Project 11351 ships launched between 1982 and 1992. Project 11351, the ''Nerey'' (, "Nereus") class, was the patrol version of the Project 1135 ''Burevestnik'' for the Soviet Maritime Border Troops. The ships were designated Border guard, Border Patrol ship, Patrol Ship (, PSKR) to reflect their role as patrol ships of the Border Troops. In comparison to other members of the class, Project 11351 ships has a helipad and hangar for a Kamov Ka-27, Kamov Ka-27PS search-and-rescue helicopter astern, in exchange to losing one 100 mm gun, one twin-arm surface-to-air missile launcher and the Metel Anti-Ship Complex, URPK-5 Rastrub (SS-N-14 'Silex') anti-ship missile launchers. NA ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felix Dzerzhinsky
Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky (; ; – 20 July 1926), nicknamed Iron Felix (), was a Soviet revolutionary and politician of Polish origin. From 1917 until his death in 1926, he led the first two Soviet secret police organizations, the Cheka and the OGPU, establishing state security organs for the Bolshevik government. He was a key architect of the Red Terror * * and de-Cossackization. Born to a Polish family of noble descent in their Ozhyemblovo Estate (in 1881 named Dzerzhinovo), in Russian Poland, Dzerzhinsky embraced revolutionary politics from a young age, and was active in the Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania party. Active in Kaunas and Warsaw, he was frequently arrested and underwent several exiles to Siberia, from which he escaped every time. He evaded the tsarist secret police, the Okhrana, whose work he took interest in. Dzerzhinsky participated in the failed 1905 Revolution, and after a final arrest in 1912, was imprisoned until the Febru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
