SSKaraganda

Soviet steamerKaraganda.Photo dated between 18 March 1961 and 1 October 1963. West-class cargo steamersas per U.S. classificationandBelorussia-class cargo steamersas per USSR classification
History
Name	Karagandafrom 6 February 1945 to 1967. (Russian:Караганда) IMO number: 5181861
Namesake	Circinus(1919–30) Vermar(1930–1942) Kamenets-Podolsk(1942–44)
Owner	1919 – 1923:Green Star Line,US 1923 – 13 December 1929: Planet Star Corp.US 13 December 1929 – 20 November 1942: Calmar Steamship Corp.,US 20 November 1942 – Apr 1944:Far East Shipping Company,USSR. Apr 1944 – 6 February 1945: Back to US. Repair was carried out. 6 February 1945 – 9 March 1950:Far East Shipping Company,USSR. 9 March 1950 – 1967:Black Sea Shipping Company,USSR.
Operator	20 November 1942 – Apr 1944:Far East Shipping Company,USSR. 6 February 1945 – 9 March 1950:Far East Shipping Company,USSR. 9 March 1950 – 1967:Black Sea Shipping Company,USSR.
Port of registry	20 November 1942 – Apr 1944:Vladivistok,USSR. 6 February 1945 – 9 March 1950:Vladivistok,USSR. 9 March 1950 – 1967:Odessa,USSR.
Builder	Columbia River Shipbuilding Company,Portland, Oregon,US.
Launched	Year of built: 1919.
Renamed	Circinus(1919–1930); Vermar(1930 – 20 November 1942); Kamenets-Podolsk(Russian:Каменец-Подольск) (20 Nov 1942 – Apr 1944) Karaganda(Russian:Караганда) (Apr 1944 – 1967)
Fate	Scrapped in 1967
General characteristics
Type	freighter,tweendecker
Tonnage	GRT 5568.
Length	410.0 ft (124.97 m).
Beam	54.2 ft (16.52 m).
Height	27.5 ft (8.38 m).
Propulsion	2328 hrp.Single screw.
Speed	10 knots (economic speed).
Crew	60 men
Armament	machine guns 1 x 102 mm, 4 x 12.7 mm.

Karaganda(Russian:Караганда) was a merchant steam ship of theBlack Sea Shipping Company(Soviet Union) from 9 March 1950 to 1967.This ship was built in the US in 1919, namedCircinusand used in some shipping companies of the United States and from 1942 in Soviet shipping companies.

She was a West-class ship as per American shipyards position andBelorussia-class cargo shipsas per Russian classification due to one of the West-class cargo ships being namedBelorussiawhen she was purchased by the Soviet Union.

Ship's particulars.

Design 1013 ship. Low free board.

Cargo gear:derricks equipped with steam motors.
Cargo holds:4 cargo holds and tweendecks.

US history of this ship

This ship was built in 1919 in United States.

SSCircinus(1919–1930).

During and just afterWorld War I,theShipping Board's sales campaigns urged Americans to buy ships for wealth and patriotism. Other ethnic groups set up shipping lines by appealing to group solidarity. So, Irish businessmen created the "Green Star Line".

• 18 January 1920.The Sunday Oregonian(Portland) wrote on page 46:

GREEN STAR WILL PLY ATLANTIC

Four Steamers Purchased Here to Sail From Baltimore.
ORIENTAL RUN PROMISED
Cruft Now Being Built at Standifer Plant Expected to Be Operated on Pacific.

Speculation as to the future field of operations of the Green Star Steamship company, which purchased four steel steamers in Portland and placed orders for the construction of five more, was ended last week by a formal announcement from the headquarters of the company inBaltimore,where the Green Star line has purchased a large building to serve as a home for its shipping enterprises. The last of the steamers purchased by, the line here, theCirclnus,sailed fromAstoriaWednesday with a full cargo of lumber forMelbourneandAdelaide,Australia. This cargo amounted to 4.086,103 feet, it is reported by Brown & McCabe, stevedores, who had charge of loading the vessel.

• 20 December 1919. TheMorning OregonianinPortland, Oregon,wrote:

"The new steel steamerCircinusof the "Green Star Line" dropped down toSt. Helensyesterday and will start loading there Monday. TheCircinushas been chartered by J.J. Moore ofSan Franciscoto carry a full cargo oflumberto Australia. She will load at several Columbia river ports. She experienced no trouble beyond a slight checking of her speed in moving through the loose Ice. "

• 28 February 1920, Saturday.The Register(Adelaide, SA: 1901 – 1929) wrote in Chapter "Shipping" that the shipCircinuswill arrive at Portland, Oregon, on Monday, 2 March 1920.
• 1923 year. In February 1923 five ships of the "Green Star Line" were sold at auction atBaltimorefor $735,000, a figure that was considered too low by shipping experts (NYT, 28 February 1923). The "Green Star Line" was not officially reorganized until March 1923. A new corporation the "Planet Star Corp.", brought the remainder of ships owned by the "Green Star Line". In September 1923 an official exchange of securities began, allowing holders of "Green Star Line" stock to trade for stock in the new company (NYT, 8 March and 4 September 1923).
• 21 September 1927. ThePrescott Evening Courierwrote:

"Freighter on rocks in So. Pacific.

SAN DIEGO, Sept. 21 – (AP) – Believed to have lost its course in a heavy fog that prevailed last night, the freighterCircinus,en route toSan Diego,San Pedro andSan FranciscofromNew York,struck the rocks at Descanso Point, Lower California, 16 miles south of here, according to information received here this morning. TheCircinusis a 10,000-ton ship of the Isthmian Line and carries a crew of 60 men. According to the information received here, the ship is resting easily and is in no immediate danger.

Captain Oakley J. Hall of the "Star and Crescent Boat Company" sent a company's tug,Palomar,to the aid of theCircinusand at the same time requested the navy department to dispatch the naval tugKokato the scene ".

• 30 September 1927. TheMadera Tribune,Number 126, wrote:

"ROCK PREVENTS SHIP'S SINKING.
(United Press Dispatch)
SAN DIEGO, 30 Sep – A huge bolder which stuck to the hull of the freighterCircinus,when grounded 17 miles south of the border, kept tho ship from sinking, a diver discovered. The freighter was floated Wednesday and brought here.
The rock punctured both bottoms of the vessel. It was embedded firmly ". "Calmar Steamship Co."(1927–1976). A subsidiary of" Bethlehem Steel Corp. ", serving the intercoastal trade. The company was established by Bethlehem in 1927 to complete with United States Steel's Isthmian Line. Bethlehem had previously operated the" Ore Steamship Corp. "as aproprietary operation,but "Calmar" was only "half proprietary", carrying exclusively Bethlehem's steel westbound, but functioning as acommon carrieron the return voyage tothe East Coastby carrying lumber from a variety of shippers. In addition, "Calmar" collaborated withMoore-McCormack Lines, Inc.,in these voyages.

• 13 December 1929. TheOakland Tribunewrote:

Isthmian LinesHouse Flag from 1910 to 1974.

"CALMAR BUYS SHIPS.

The "Calmar Line" has purchased five freighters from the "Planet Steamship company", according to announcement from New York. This purchase increases the Calmar intercoastal fleet to 11 ships. The new craft are 880 tons register.

The vessels involved are all well known on this coast, consisting of theCircinius,Corvus,Clauseus,CentaurusandEurana.They have run into local ports for several years under theIsthmian Linehouseflag ".

The steamerCirciniuswas renamedVermarin 1930.

SSVermar(1930–1942)

• December 1938. "The Master, Mate and Pilot", number 8, December 1938, mentioned in the article "Calmar Steamship Corp." buys three 10,000-tons Freighters:

"H. W. Warley, vice president of the" Calmar Steamship Corporation ", has announced that the concern has purchased three freighters of 10,000 tons deadweight capacity, bringing its intercoastal fleet to 14 ships. The three vessels, theEhnsport,Colorado Springs,andEdgehill,will enter service as theKenmar,Marymar,andOremar,following the nomenclature system now in effect and honoring the states of Kentucky, Maryland, and Oregon.

The expansion program will make possible a new schedule of weekly sailings between ports on the two coasts, Mr. Warley explained. In future, vessels will sail westbound from Baltimore each Saturday and from Philadelphia on Wednesdays, forLos Angeles,San Francisco,Alameda,Oakland,Richmond, Calif, Portland,Seattle,andTacoma.It is also planned to reduce the transit time to the northernmost ports. The first sailing for the West Coast will be that of theVermar,leavingBaltimore7 January and returning fromPuget Sound16 February. "

• 1 May 1939. TheEugene Register-Guardwrote:

"Portland Hearings Will be Continued this Wednesday.

PORTLAND, Ore., May 1. (AP) – Labor hitched up its "justiciable controversies" today and prepared to make a fresh assault on Oregon's new union-control law.

At a preliminary hearing on a constitutional test by a group of unions, three circuit court judges decided no "justiciable controversy" had been shown – the union hadn't proved they were hurt.
When the case reaches court again Wednesday, a new suit will be included. A motion picture operator's union ask the right to picked the Circle theater because of contract differences although it constitutes less than a majority of employers and under the law could not picket. Waterfront Mentioned

If that doesn't provide enough force to test the law which was passed last November in the wake of a year-long campaign against labor terrorism, there is the matter of waterfront picketing.

CIOwoodworkers from aCarltonlumber mill, on strike because three members of their union were realized, continued to prevent loading of lumber from the mill on the freighterVermar.Ship agents threatened to invoke the control law on the ground less than half the mill's employees were involved, a stand that ended picketing at the mill last week.

It was indicated the theater suit ".

• 5 May 1939. TheSpokane Daily Chroniclewrote:

"Restraining Order Blocks Picketing.

PORTLAND, Ore., May 5. (AP) – A temporary restraining order to stop picketing was issued Wednesday in one of Portsland's two labor controversies that have tied up ships and the order was settled when the union accepted a company offer.
TheInternational Woodworkers of AmericaWednesday accepted an offer from the Engle & Worth Lumber company at Cariton, ending the dispute that prevented the freighterVermarloading lumber for five days. The firm reinstated two dismissed workers.
Circuit JudgeJohn P. Winter issued the order restraining pickets of the maritime office employees' local, 1–25, from picketing the steamerWilliam Luckenbach.

The union picketed the boat in protest to the company's asserted failure to company with a national labor relations board order to reinstate three workers ".

• 6 May 1939.The Capital Journal(Salem, Oregon) wrote on page 12:

"Moody's Report On Good Cases Barred by Court.

Portland, May 6 (AP) – Oregon's union-control law faced a new challenge today in a series of waterfront disputes.

While three circuit judges heard defendant officials answer a labor coalition test of the law's constitutionally, another was added when charges against 21 men indicated for alleged unlawful picketing of the steamerVermarwere shifted to the same court. Accused of having prevented loading of the freighterVermarwith lumber from a Carlton sawmill, the men, mostly members of the Carlton CIOwoodworkers' union, were realised from custody after a demurrer to the indictments was filed.

Gus Solomon,CIO attorney who filed the demurrer on the ground that the law was unconstitutional, asked transfer of the case to the judges hearing the test.
The law forbids demonstrations on premises of employers not involved in controversies and in cases where less than majority of workers are concerned. The woodworkers' strike at the Carlton mill was settled but only after loading of theVermarwas delayed three days.

George Cron, who declared the state courts had no jurisdiction and picketed in defiance of the circuit court order, was charged with contempt but released on bond. Howeverlongshoremenand CIO sailors pleaded "danger" and refused to board the vessel.
Cron's arrest followed a demonstration be the maritime office workers' union in protesting alleged refusal of the Luckenbach line to heed a national labor relations board order and reinstate three members with back pay.

In the original labor-coalition test of the law, the court acting upon answers filed by defendant city, county and state officials admitted all the evidence with the exception of a report on labor terrorism by special prosecutor Ralph Moody, which is termed a "special pleading by a skilled partisan". "

In the immediate post-World War II period, Calmar purchased eight Liberty ships and modified them for the company's purposes.Seems the shipVermarwas counted as one of these eight Liberty ships, but she was not really Liberty class ships.

Soviet history of this ship

SSКаменец-Подольск(1942–1944).

• 20 November 1942. Former US cargo shipVermerwas adopted by the Soviet Purchasing Committee, renamedKamenyets-Podolskand entered in theFar Eastern State Shipping Companyon 20 November 1942.
• April 1944. The shipKamenyets-Podolskwas returned to the U.S. due to poor technical condition in exchange for another steamer.

ShipКарагандаin Far East Shipping Company (1945 – March 1950).

The ship, ex-Circinus,ex-Vermar,ex-Kamenets-Podolsk,was back after major overhaul to the Far East Shipping Company from the United States on 6 February 1945 and was namedKaragandaas another shipRobert S. Abbot(built in 1944), which wasLiberty shipand also received from the United States, already was namedKamenets-Podolsk.The ship was named in honor ofKaraganda city in Kazakhstan SSR, USSR.

ShipКарагандаin Black Sea Shipping Company from March 1950 to 1967.

This ship was transferred to balans of the Black Sea Shipping Company on 9 March 1950.

Seems this steamer was used for the Line between Soviet Black Sea ports and Indian ports from the 1950s. So, Soviet Union magazineOgoniok(Russian:Огонёк) number 38, 14 September 1952, wrote:

"To the shores of India.

... Joint Committee was established For the purpose of immediate assistance to the hungry people in theAndhra State.The Committee members belong to different political organizations. The Committee requested theTrade Unionswith a request to help the starving in Andhra State.

As reported by our press, Soviet trade unions warmly responded to this request and decided to send food to the starving population of the southern regions of India.

Again "the ships of peace and friendship" go to the shores of India. The shipKaragandais already in the Red Sea, on the way to India. The wheat was grown Ukrainian farmers and after loaded in the holds. On the eve of the departure from the Soviet Union the crew ofKaragandaunder command of Captain P. I. Boyko worked tirelessly to prepare the ship for exemplary long voyage through many Seas and the Indian Ocean. The completion of ship's loading was eight hours earlier of schedule. The crew of the shipKaragandadeclared own voyage asStakhanovite movementand dedicated it to the XIX Congress of the party.... "

Collision in May 1957.

The shipKaraganda,GRTmore than 6000, under command of captain P. I. Boyko, discovered the lights of an oncoming vessel at a distance of 100 meters approximately at 01 hrs 14 min on 1 May 1957, when she was following "slow ahead" in theBlack Seaduring the fog with visibility up to 50–70 meters. That was the shipZaporozhye,GRT 2000 approximately, under the command of captain L. M. Preobrazhensky which was coming with speed slow ahead also, 5–6 knots, and on this ship the lights of the shipKaragandawere seen on a distance of approximately 100 m. The command "full speed astern" were given on both ships for 2–3 minutes before collision, but was not possible to snub the ships andKaraganda,having considerable inertia of moving forward, hit the port side board of the shipZaporozhyeby own left foreword quarter and by the left anchor at 01 hours 16 minutes. TheZaporozhyesank rapidly after 28 minutes due to list was increased rapidly to the port side. TheKaragandasuffered a lot of damage to the bow part of the hull. Due to correct actions of the captain of theZaporozhyeafter the collision, who took all demanded measures setting for the salvation of all 54 crew members as well as the ship's papers and money, the abandonment of the sinking ship was organized without panic and in compliance with good maritime traditions. The watch sailor was risking own life when he hacked the jammed door of the chief mate's cabin and released the chief officer before the sinking vessel. There were no victims after the collision of two ships and the loss of one of them.

Due 1 May was one of the main the Soviet Union celebrations the date of collision was changed to 3 May 1957.

One side of card from the personnel department of Black Sea Shipping Company as confirmation that the person worked on the shipsNezhin,Karaganda,Metallurg Anosov.Only this person worked on these three ships.

After the collision of two Black Sea Shipping Company ships, all big ships of this company were equipped with radar during some years. The short separate mast was added on accommodation for radar installation (to see ship's photo).

Newcomer in March 1961.

Motorman Nikolay, his previous ship wassteamerNezhin,joined the shipKaragandaon 18 March 1961 and the ship already was equipped with one radar and re-equipped as a motor-ship.

To read article: SSNezhin

The word "Gde" in Odessa language

The mix of two official language of part of population named "Soorzhyck" (Russian:"суржик") language in Russia and Ukraine. A person speaking on "Soorzhyk" also named a "soorzhyk". The population of Odessa had good mix of two languages, Ukrainian and Russian, in the 1960s still. Due to Odessa citizens use mix of more than two languages it was impossible to name "Soorzhyk" language. And Odessa citizens did not glad when somebody call them "soorzhyks". They say that Odessa has own language.

Also Odessa citizens use Russian worlds so that other population of the U.S.S.R. smile and sometimes smile wildly. It is depends and questions including the word "Gde" (Russian:"Где").

English question-word"Where"has following translations on Russian:

• Где – in case anybody asking about position.
• Куда – in case anybody asking about direction.

For example:

• Where are you going? – Куда Вы идёте?
• Where are you? – Где Вы?
• Where is it? – Где это?

Odessa citizen can replace the word "Куда" by the word "Где":

• Where are you going? – Где Вы идёте?

It is means that the word "Где" can means and position, and direction in Odessa. And other population of the USSR smile when Odessa somebody say like this. Theremore, Odessa citizens can replace other question-words by the "Где" or directly or changing the phraze:

• How are you? – Как поживаете? (Как Вы себя чувствуете?)

can be changed as

• And, where you have pain? – И где у Вас болит?

Gde-Gde? Na Karagande.

Rest hours on board of Soviet ship Karaganda during the voyage to India. A haircut and having between cargo for India. Photo dated 1961 or 1962.

"Gde-gde..." (Russian:"Где-где"and on English:"Where, where") – it is an adverb of Russian language. Mostly "gde-gde" means any area or any place where is very bad conditions or conditions more worst then in other mentioned place as per text in the sentence. For example:

• the article"Где, где? В Караганде! – Чрезвычайное происшествие (18+)" (English:"Gde, gde? In Karaganda(-e)! – Emergency incident (18+)");
• examples in any Russian vocabulary.

Karagandais a city in Kazakhstan that was built during Soviet Union period and is known for coal mining and concentration camps. It is good rhyme: "Gde, gde? V Karagande!" where last character "a" changed to "e" as per Russian grammatical rules.

Rest hours on board of Soviet ship Karaganda during the voyage to India. The crew members play dominoes close to lashed cargo for India during rest hours. Photo dated 1961 or 1962.

In case somebody asked any crew member of shipKaraganda:
– "Where are You now?" -
he reply
– "Gde, gde? Na Karagande?" (English:"Where, where? On (board of) Karaganda") – it is means on board of shipKaraganda.

The same reply was from Nikolay to anybody. It is means that conditions on this ship was not very good due to theKaragandawas old and one of the worst ships of Black Sea Shipping company. TheKaragandawas re-equipped as motor-ship before outomn 1961. The ship was built on the riveted joints, but the metal sheets of the hull were thick. Cargo derricks were equipped by hydraulic motors. During the engines run the motorman had to check heating of cylinders by hand and was necessary often to add oil.

MSKaragandabetween May 1961 and autumn 1962

Daughters of Grigoriy Zhukovsky atStatue of Graf Vorontsov, Odessaon the Soviet Army Square inOdessain 1954.

Nikolay joinedKaragndaas motorman in March 1961. Motorman Ivan Gorbunkov already was a crew member of this ship in the same rank. Due to Odessa population mostly stocked up on coal for winter season beforehand, Ivan asked Nikolay to assist one family. Every seaman ofBlack Sea Shipping Companycould receive a certain amount of coal without payment as the furnaces was used for heating in the houses in 1960-s still. Due to Nikolay was not married and had not own house he was agree to give own portion of coal to that family. For this reason was necessary to take signature, name and passport details for formalities and he visited that family. That was Zhukovsky family.

Zhukovsky family lived on theKartamyshevskaya street,26,Moldavanka districtinOdessa.That was old courtyard that include 7 houses about. Moldavanka district was recognized as Intelligence center of Odessa historically due to the large network of catacombs beneath this district was used in the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century for smuggling, revolutionary activities, underground andpartisan movement.

Grigoriy Fyodorovitch Zhukovsky was the head of family. His wife was Antonina Zhukovskaya (maiden name was Chernyavskaya). They already had three daughters. The eldest and the yangest daughters was not married yet. The medium daughter was married Ivan Gorbunkov in 1961, before May. Nikolay commenced meetings with the youngest daughter after the first visit to this family. Soon they were married, in September 1961.

The shipKaragandacarried cargoes to theEastern Mediterraneanports and throughSuez Canalto India, Yemen's ports. During period between May 1961 and October 1963,Karagandadid not visit Spain, France and did not passGibraltar strait.The main direction of this ship wereMiddle East,Yemen, India and Ceylon ports.

Historical events and motor-vesselKaragandabetween December 1962 and December 1963.

• October 1962.Oleg Penkovsky,he was a chief officer of the special Department of the 3rd Directorate (the scientific and technical Directorate) of theGRU,came underKGBsurveillance in December 1961. The lookout was arranged for all the British diplomats and the British, who lived in Moscow, and one of the contacts gave the trail to Penkovsky. Oleg Penkovsky was arrested on 22 October 1962.
• 2 February 1963.Ivan Serovwas removed from the post of the chief of theGRUof theGeneral Staff of the Soviet Armed Forcesin connection with the "loss of vigilance", as was revealed Penkovsky.Nikita Khrushchevappointed Serov as the chief of theGRUon 10 December 1958. Khrushchev trusted Serov unconditionally to fulfill of his instructions. Serov participated in the suppression of theHungarian Uprising of 1956.He led the arrests of participants in the uprising and the creation of new security agencies in Hungary. The failure of Penkovsky was a blow not only to the General Intelligence Department, but to the prestige of Khrushchev.
• 9 February 1963. The shipKaragandaarrived inOdessafromAlexandria, Egypt.
• March 1963. Due to theSyrian coup d'état on 8 March 1963,referred to by the Syrian government as the8 March Revolution,the power inSyriawas seized by themilitary committeeof theSyrian Regional Branchof theArab Socialist Ba'ath Party.Egypt and the Soviet Union began to lose influence over Syria.
• Due to the severe illness ofFrol Kozlovfrom April 1963, the balance of power in the immediate environmentN. S. Khrushchevand the Presidium of theCPSU Central Committeehas changed radically.Nikita Khrushchevsought to find a replacement forFrol Kozlovand advanced to the first position in the guideLeonid BrezhnevandNikolai Podgorny.In the meetings of the Presidium and Plenum of the Central Committee of the CPSU in October 1964, on which N. Khrushchev was sent into retirement, did not participate.
• On the 1-st of May 1963 the shipKaragandawas alongside inLatakia,Syria. It is confirmed by photographs, which recorded the visit of the British citizens on board of this ship due to Soviet celebration 1 May. Two soviet seamen, which were married the daughters of Zhukovsky family fromM. Raskova (Kartamyshevskaya) streetinOdessa,were a seamen of this ship and one of them was exactly on board of this ship during this visit (he is on the photo also, his eyes are closed on the photo). Necessary to pay attention, that in 1963 the jamming of transmissions by Soviet Jammer's stations was lifted, and the jamming was resumed in 1968, after the Czechoslovak events.The foreign Intelligence subdivisions had interest to M. Raskova street from 1962 or earlier. Can be this street was interesting for them after the Jammer installation onKartamyshevskaya street?Seems the Jammer onKartamyshevskaya streetwas not only for foreign station jamming, but it was also for the local radio-waves jamming to avoid any foreign radio-wave espionage. Anyhow motorman Nikolay did not speak English and the next attempts to start conversation between Nikolay and the foreigners, who was speaking Russian, had place during the next hisshipMetallurg Anosovcalls inSydneyin April 1964 andKyotoin October 1975.
• 11 May 1963.Oleg Penkovskywas convicted of treason and sentenced to death (executed on 16 May 1963).
• From June 1963, the duties of the second Secretary of theCentral Committee of the CPSUwas performed byL. I. Brezhnev.
• The ship visitedVeneziain summer 1963 approximately.
• October–December 1963. Nikolay was sing off the shipKaragandafor vacation on 1 October 1963. The shipKaragandawas used for marriage between two seamen ofKaragandaand two daughters of Grigoriy Zhukovsky. If Ivan knew some details about Intelligence activity around Grigoriy Zukovsky family, Nikolay did not know about it from beginning. November 1963 The "beastito", the son of Nikolay, began to walk alone, without any support from anybody, on 2 November 1963. During the vacation Nikolay had to pass courses to change qualification to motoman of turbine engines. In December 1963 Nikolay joinedthe shipMetallurg Anosov,which was delivered to theBlack Sea Shipping Companyin the day of his son birthday, 29 September 1962. Is it was a coincidence of dates, or scheduled in advance for future intelligence activities? Due to the same coincidence of dates the son of Nikolay had alias "beastito". Obviously political events have affected the intelligence related toM. Raskova (Karamyshevskaya) street,26, inOdessa.Leonid Brezhnevand others made the overall camp of the Soviet regime, which ousted Nikita Khrushchev and Yuri Andropov joined the camp later. Nikolay was joined theshipMetallurg Anosovand the name of this ship was associated withGeorgy Zhukov,who had mutual understanding withLeonid BrezhnevandYuriy Andropov.

The fate.

There is no any information about this ship during period from 1964 to 1967. Seems the ship was not active after 1963 due to ship's age 44–48.

The shipKaraganda,IMO number 5181861, was decommissioned, removed from the vessels' lists ofMinmorflotand handed over to Glavvtorchrmet for dismantling and cutting into metal in 1967.

The new motor vesselKaraganda,IMO number 6912889, was built in GDR in June 1969 for theBaltic Sea Shipping Company,USSR.

Crew members.

Captains:

• P. I. Boyko

See also

• SS West Hosokie
• SSCorvus
• SSNezhin
• SSMetallurg Anosov
• Kartamyshevskaya street
• Statue of Graf Vorontsov, Odessa
• Statue of Yuriy Dolgorukiy, Moscow