Gorya-class minesweeper

The Gorya class, Soviet designation Project 12660, are a group of minesweepers built for the Soviet Navy in the late 1980s. Three ships were started of which two were completed and are in service with the Russian Navy.

Minesweeper Vladimir Gumanenko in 2020
Class overview
Name	Gorya class (Project 12660)
Builders	Baltic Werf
Operators	Soviet Navy  Russian Navy
Preceded by	Natya-class minesweeper
Succeeded by	Alexandrit-class minesweeper
In commission	1988-present
Planned	20
Completed	2
Cancelled	18
Active	2
General characteristics
Class and type	Gorya class minehunter
Displacement	900 tons, 1100 tons full load
Length	70 m (230 ft)
Beam	12 m (39 ft)
Draught	4 m (13 ft)
Propulsion	2 × M-503B-37 Diesel engines 5000 hp
Speed	16 knots (30 km/h)
Range	1,500 nautical miles (2,778.0 km) at 12 knots (22 km/h)
Endurance	7 days
Crew	60
Sensors and processing systems	Sonar: High frequency, hull mounted, active mine detection Radar: Palm Frond Bass Tilt
Electronic warfare & decoys	Minesweeping: AT-2 acoustic sweep GKT-2 contact sweep TEM-3 magnetic sweep
Armament	1 × AK-176M 76mm gun 1 × 30mm AK-630 CIWS 2 × SA-N-14 SAM missiles torpedo tubes

Design

The ships are designed for deep ocean sweeping of captor mines with sophisticated mine detection equipment. Sweeping gear includes two submersibles as well as conventional sweeps. Russian press boasted that the Project 12660 minesweepers were the first sweepers in the history of Soviet military shipbuilding capable of not only destroying the "Captor" mines, "Colas" ASW coverage buoys, and other enemy underwater objects at depths of up to 1000 meters.

Ships

A total of twenty ships were planned, but the programme was stopped by the collapse of the Soviet Union. Two ships were completed.

Name	Hull No.	Laid down	Launched	Commissioned	Fleet	Status
Anatoly Zheleznyakov	901			1988	Black Sea Fleet	Active
Vladimir Gumanenko	811			1994	Northern Fleet	Active

See also

• List of ships of the Soviet Navy
• List of ships of Russia by project number

References

• Gardiner, Robert, ed. (1995). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1947–1995. London: Conway Maritime. ISBN 0-85177-605-1. OCLC 34284130. Also published as Gardiner, Robert; Chumbley, Stephen; Budzbon, Przemysław (1995). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1947–1995. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-55750-132-7. OCLC 34267261.
• "1266.0 Admiral Zheleznyakov / Gorya class". Warfare.be. Archived from the original on 22 March 2016.
• "All Gorya Class Minesweepers - Complete Ship List". Russianships.info.