Russian Navy – Landing Ships and Craft

Russian Landing Ships

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Ivan Gren Class / Project 11711 LOA 393′ / 119.8 m TDISP 6,600 tons (2 active)Ivan Gren Class landing ships Baltiysk Black Sea 2018Ropucha and Ivan Gren landing ships Severomorsk 2019

Ropucha Class / Project 775 LOA 369′ / 112.5 m TDISP 4,000 tons (15 active, 12 retired, 1 in refit) – 2 slightly different variants.

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Ropucha class landing ship 1985 NARA: 330-CFD-DN-SC-97-00015
Rapucha landing ships Baltiysk Black Sea 2018
This capture shows both variants of Rapucha class.

Alligator class / Project 1171 Tapir landing ship LOA 370′ / 112.8 m TDISP 4,600 tons (14 built, 3 active, 1 in refit, 1 damaged, service since 1964) BDK-10 Saratov pennant 150 was extensively damaged or destroyed 24 March 2022 at Berdiansk.

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Alligator class landing ship, 1974. Credit: National Museum of the U.S. Navy, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Alligator class landing ship Sevastopol 2020

Polnocny class / Project 770-776 landing ship LOA 240′ / 73.2 m TDISP 834′ (some sub-classes larger) (108 built since 1967, about about 35 still active, Russian Navy service ended around 2010)

Polnocny B type Project 771 (3 in service with Vietnamese Navy, 3 in service with Syrian Navy)

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Polnocny Class landing ship, possibly in intelligence collection role, 1985 NARA: 330-CFD-DN-SN-87-00912

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Ivan Rogov Class / Project 1174 Nosorog Large Landing Ship LOA 515′ / 157 m TDISP 14,000 tons (3 retired, service 1978-2006)

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Ivan Rogov class landing ship 1986 NARA: 330-CFD-DD-ST-86-06700

Mitrofan Moskalenko (1990-2002) laid up in Severomorsk until 2019 when it was sent to nearby Murmansk for dismantling, after a fire in 2017.Mitrofan Moskalenko Ivan Rogov class Murmansk 2019

Ivan Rogov class landing ship Fokino 2014.jpg

Landing Craft

Dyugon class / Project 21820 LOA 148’/ 45 m TDISP 280 tons (3 active, service since 2010)

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Dyugon class Michman Lermontov firing MTPU-1 in Baltiysk, 2015. Vadim Grishankin, Mil.ru, CC BY 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

Dyugon LC Makhachkala 2021

Serna Class / Project 11770 LOA 84′ / 25.7 m TDISP 61 tons (service since 1994, at least 8 in service), 1 destroyed at Snake Island during Russian Invasion of Ukraine, 2022/05/06

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Serna class Landing Craft D-172 and D-131 at Astrakhan, Caspian Sea Flotilla, 2015. Credit: Mil.ru, CC BY 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

Serna class LCs Makhachkala 2021

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