Minor Crafts
Soviet "Aktivny" Class
- River Monitor -

The seven Aktivny class's river monitors served at the Danube River Flotilla; later Dniepr River Flotilla. Except for Zhelezniakov which survived the war, all of them had been scuttled on the Dniepr in September 1941. Zhelezniakov finished the war on the Danube in 1945 and became a war memorial in 1967.
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Line Drawing of Zhelezniakov [YS]

Technical Data Explanation of data sheets
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1934-1937 at Kiev
263 ts
51.2 x 8.2 x 0.9 m
280 hp
8.5/8.3 kts
3,700 miles
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Tactical Data
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2x102;
3x45; 3x12.7mm; (2x37 added in 1942)
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Zhelezniakov - 1934-11-25; 1935-11-22; 1936-10-27: Danube Flotilla; 1941-09: break through to the Black Sea, participated at the defense of the Black Sea ports; 1941-11-21: allocated to the Azov Sea Flotilla; 1942: Kuban River Flotilla, managed to break through from the Azov Sea to the Black Sea; 1942-10-14: part of the Black Sea Fleet; 1943-02-26: accompanied the new established Azov Sea Flotilla; 1944-04-13: again in the Danube Flotilla; 1967: became war memorial at Kiev
Aktivny - 1934; 1934-08-23; 1935-10-16 ;
Zhemchuzhin - 1934; 1935; 1936-11-27 /
Levachev - 1934; 1935; 1936-10-27 / Martinov - 1934; 1935; 1936-12-08 /
Rostovtsev - 1935; 1936; 1937-05-13 / Fliagin - 1934; 1935; 1936-12-30

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