Zhenya-class minesweeper

Class overview
Name	Zhenya class (Project 1252)
Builders	Izhora
Operators	Soviet Navy
Preceded by	Vanya class
Succeeded by	Sonya class
In commission	1966–1990s
Completed	3
Lost	1
Retired	2
General characteristics
Type	Minesweeper
Displacement	220 t (220 long tons) (standard); 300 t (300 long tons) (full load);
Length	42.4 m (139 ft 1 in)
Beam	7.9 m (25 ft 11 in)
Draught	1.8 m (5 ft 11 in)
Propulsion	2 shafts ; Diesel engines, 1,800 kW (2,400 bhp);
Speed	16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph)
Range	2,400 nmi (4,400 km; 2,800 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement	40
Sensors and ; processing systems	Radar: "Spin Trough", "Don I"; "Two Square Head" IFF;
Armament	2 × 30 mm (1.2 in) guns; 6 naval mines;

Project 1252 'Izmrud' (NATO reporting name: Zhenya class) were a group of three minesweepers built for the Soviet Navy in the late 1960s. The ships were a glass-reinforced plastic (GRP)-hulled version of the preceding wooden-hulled Vanya class. They were intended to be a prototype of an advanced design, instead the Soviet Navy returned to wooden-hulled minesweeper construction with the following Sonya class. Of the three minesweepers, one was lost in an explosion in 1989 and the fate of the other two is unknown.

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