SS Fizik Kurchatov was a Leninsky Komsomol-class multi-purpose tweendecker freighter owned by the Soviet Black Sea Shipping Company. She was powered by steam turbine engines. The ship was named after Soviet physicist Igor Kurchatov (1903–1960).
The Fizik Kurchatov loading missiles in Casilda port. The photo was taken by an RF-101 pilot with the 363rd Tactical Reconnaissance Wing on 6 November 1962. Note the aircraft's shadow.
The Fizik Kurchatov on a 1962 commemorative badge
Part of a 9 May 1985 letter from a junior officer on the Toyvo Antikaynen to his father when the father was in Cuba aboard the Fizik Kurchatov. The son wrote that he was awaiting the ship's arrival in the USSR from Yugoslavia.
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