Leninsky Komsomol-class cargo ship
The Leninsky Komsomol class (also transliterated as Leninskiy Komsomol or Leninskij Komsomol is a class of 25 ocean-going dry cargo ships; tweendeckers with turbine main engines, built between 1959 and 1968 in the Soviet Union under the designations Projects 567 and 567K. Twenty were built by the Kherson Shipyard, and five in either the Nikolayev Shipyard, or the Nosenko Shipyard in Nikolayev. They were part of a program to modernize the Soviet Union's merchant fleet.
Ravenstvo at anchor in July 1979
Metallurg Anosov departing Cuba on November 7, 1962. Her deck cargo of eight missile transporters with canvas-covered missiles is visible.
The Fizik Kurchatov in Casilda port. The photograph was taken by an RF-101 pilot with the 363rd Tactical Reconnaissance Wing on November 6, 1962. The shadow of the aircraft is visible.
Metallurg Anosov unloading cargo at Cuba
Leninsky Komsomol was a merchant ship of Black Sea Shipping Company, a tweendecker type freighter with steam turbine engines and the first ship in the Leninsky Komsomol class, project 567. The ship is named in honor of the Komsomol league, which was added by Lenin.
This photo of another American plane is flying very close to sea water level over the sister ship Metallurg Anosov in 1960s.