Saratov 2022
Marker: recorded wreck position (Modern).
Key facts
| Name | Saratov | Wikidata label |
|---|---|---|
| Year lost | 2022 | Wikidata P793 significant event, point-in-time qualifier |
| Era | Modern | derived from year |
| Ship type | landing ship | Wikidata P31 instance of |
| Nationality / flag | Russia | Wikidata P8047 country of registry |
| Operator | Russian Navy | Wikidata P137 operator |
| Conflict | War in Abkhazia, full-scale Russo-Ukrainian war, 2014 Russian invasion of Crimea | Wikidata P607 conflict |
| Nearest coast | Ukraine | Natural Earth (public domain) |
| Position | 46.7498, 36.7737 | Wikidata P793 significant event, coordinate qualifier (CC0) |
About the wreck
Saratov (Russian: Саратов) was a Tapir-class landing ship of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Navy. She was destroyed on 24 March 2022, while in the port of Berdyansk, after being struck by a Ukrainian missile.
Named Saratov, the ship was built in Kaliningrad and launched in 1964. She was named BDK-10 (Russian: БДК-10) for Russian: Большой десантный корабль, romanized: Bolshoy desantnyi korabl', lit. 'large landing ship', and then renamed Voronezhsky Komsomolets in 1967. With the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, she was renamed BDK-65 in 1992, and then Saratov in 2003. She is one of the first subtype of the Tapir-class landing ships, designated Project 1171 by the Russian Navy.
Location
- Recorded position: 46.7498, 36.7737 (Wikidata P793 significant event, coordinate qualifier (CC0); may be approximate)
- Nearest coast: Ukraine
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