The Balzam class, Soviet designation Project 1826 is a class of intelligence collection ships built in the Soviet Union for the Soviet Navy during the 1980s. They are also known as Lira class, after t
A starboard view of the Soviet Balzam-class general intelligence collector ship underway in international waters as United States Navy ships sail out from Norfolk, Virginia, at the beginning of NATO Exercise Ocean Safari '85.
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The Pacific Fleet is the Russian Navy fleet in the Pacific Ocean. Established in 1731 as part of the Imperial Russian Navy, the fleet was known as the Okhotsk Military Flotilla and Siberian Military F
Balzam-class intelligence ship
…Lira 516 Yantar Shipyard, Kaliningrad 9 February 1980 Northern Fleet Decommissioned in 1997 Azia 493 Yantar Shipyard, Kaliningrad 13 February 1981 Pacific Fleet Decommissioned Pribaltica 80 Yantar Shipyard, Kaliningrad 28 July 1984 Pacific Fleet Active Belomore 463 Yantar Shipyard, Kaliningrad 7 February 1987…
The headquarters of the Pacific Fleet in Vladivostok
Light cruiser Lazar Kaganovich
Ships of the Soviet Pacific Fleet at Vladivostok in 1990
Sailors of the aircraft carrier Novorossiisk, Red Banner Pacific Fleet (1984)