"Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin" - scientific research vessel for controlling the spacecrafts to perform trajectory and telemetry, to liaise ground mission control points with the crews of space ships and stations. The largest and most powerful ship in its class.
Built in 1971 in Leningrad. Maximum length of 231.6 m, maximum width of 31.0 m, height of the board at the midsection of 15.4 m. Displacement with full stocks of 45,000 tonnes, sea gauge 8.5 m. The steam turbine power plant with capacity of 19,000 horsepower, the maximum travel speed up to 18 knots. Range continuous voyage of 20,000 miles. It has been attributed to the port of Odessa. From 1971 to 1991, the ship has fulfilled 20 cruises in the Atlantic Ocean. The main task was to control flights of satellites, manned spacecrafts and unmanned interplanetary stations.
After the collapse of the USSR the ship passed under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Defence. It was not used for its intended purpose and based in the port of Yuzhny near Odessa. In 1996 the ship was sold for scrap at a price of 170$ per tonne for the Austrian company "Merkur Zuid" and disposed of.
- Series: Scientific research fleet of USSR
- Country: USSR
- Year: 1979-12-25
- Perforation: comb 12 x 11½
- Printing: Photogravure and Recess
- Face value: 10 kopecks
- Number of catalogue Michel: SU 4910
"Cosmonaut Vladislav Volkov" - scientific research vessel designed to collect telemetry data from the spacecrafts and connection of ground flight control points with the crews of space ships and stations. Built in 1977 in Leningrad, as part of a series of four ships of the project "Selena-M".
Maximum length of 121.9 m, maximum width of 16.7 m, height of the board to the upper deck of 10.8 m; Total displacement of 8,950 tonnes of sludge 6,6 m; Main propulsion - diesel engine capacity of 5200 liters. The speed of 14.7 knots.
Marine reserves: oil - 1440 tons, lubricating oil - 30 tons, washing and drinking water - 600 t; Cruising range of 16 000 miles. Stocks have enough provisions for 90 days, water supplies - for 30 days. The crew consisted of 66 people, the expedition - 77 people. Navigation area seaworthy vessel is not limited. From 1977 to 1991 the ship complied with 14 expeditionary flights to Central and South Atlantic, the Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea and the Indian Ocean. The main task was to ensure control of the flight control center in charge of an operation conducted on manned orbital stations, control switching booster rocket stages during the launches of geostationary satellites and satellites with highly elliptical orbits.
In 2000, the vessel was dismantled in the Kaliningrad shipyard "Baltica".
- Series: Scientific research fleet of USSR
- Country: USSR
- Year: 1979-12-25
- Perforation: comb 12 x 11½
- Printing: Photogravure and Recess
- Face value: 6 kopecks
- Number of catalogue Michel: SU 4909
"Ernst Krenkel" - a specialized ocean-going vessel of ice class tonnage of 4500 tons, built in 1971 (Poland). Designed for comprehensive oceanographic and meteorological research. The vessel has committed a second (1997) and third (1998) Antarctic expedition. Total displacement of 4,500 tonnes.
Currently the ship is at berth of UkrSCES (Ukrainian Scientific Center of Ecology of Sea, Odessa), in the village of Yuzhny.
- Series: Scientific research fleet of USSR
- Country: USSR
- Year: 1979-12-25
- Perforation: comb 12 x 11½
- Printing: Photogravure and Recess
- Face value: 4 kopecks
- Number of catalogue Michel: SU 4908
"Professor Bogorov" - scientific research vessel type "Valerian Uryvaev", is intended to carry out oceanographic research. Built in 1976 at the Finnish shipyard "Layvateollisuus" in Turku.
The ship was in charge of the Far Eastern Branch of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1976-1991), and later the Russian Academy of Sciences (since 1991). Maximum length of 68.77 m, maximum width of 12.42 m, total displacement of 1671 tonnes; the main engine - RBV 6M 358; the speed of 13,5 knots. Assigned to the port of Vladivostok.
The ship provided 11 laboratories, the crew was 32 people, expedition staff - 28 people.
- Series: Scientific research fleet of USSR
- Country: USSR
- Year: 1979-12-25
- Perforation: comb 12 x 11½
- Printing: Photogravure and Recess
- Face value: 2 kopecks
- Number of catalogue Michel: SU 4907
The vessel "Vulcanolog" (volcanologist) - scientific research vessel type "Valerian Uryvayev" of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. Launched on April 26, 1976; it built at the Khabarovsk shipbuilding plant. It is at the disposal of the Institute of Volcanology, Academy of Sciences of the USSR.
The vessel is built on a special project and was intended for research submarine volcanism and seismic activity in the Pacific Ocean. Total committed 41 research cruises; visited Mexico, New Guinea, New Zealand, the Philippines, Malaysia, the area near the Kamchatka Peninsula. As a result of the geological research of the bottom patterns were identified in the Kuril-Kamchatka region, made up of tectonic maps, discovered and described seismically active faults.
After 1991, the ship was used for passenger flights.
- Series: Scientific research fleet of USSR
- Country: USSR
- Year: 1979-12-25
- Perforation: comb 12 x 11½
- Printing: Photogravure and Recess
- Face value: 1 Russian kopeck
- Number of catalogue Michel: SU 4906
