Caesar Kunikov is a Russian military ship of big landing craft

Landing craft

Landing craft are boats and seagoing vessels used to convey a landing force from the sea to the shore during an amphibious assault. Most renowned are those used to storm the beaches of Normandy, the Mediterranean, and many Pacific islands during WWII...

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Ropucha class landing ship

The Ropucha , or Project 775 class landing ships are classified in the Russian Navy as "large landing craft" . They were built in Poland in the Stocznia Północna shipyards, in Gdansk. They are designed for beach landings and can carry a 450 ton cargo...

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Ship launched in 1986. Project no. 775.

She's currently in service at Black Sea Fleet

Black Sea Fleet

The Black Sea Fleet is a large operational-strategic sub-unit of the Russian Navy, operating in the Black Sea and the Mediterranean Sea since the late 18th century. It is based in various harbors of the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov....

 of Russian Navy (197th brigade of landing type ships, 30th division of surface ships). Homeport - Sevastopol

Sevastopol

Sevastopol is a city on rights of administrative division of Ukraine, located on the Black Sea coast of the Crimea peninsula. It has a population of 342,451 . Sevastopol is the second largest port in Ukraine, after the Port of Odessa....

. Hull no. 158.

Named after Caesar Lvovich Kunikov

Caesar Lvovich Kunikov

Caesar Lvovich Kunikov — was a officer in the Soviet Naval Infantry. He served as commanding officer of a landing party that recaptured the beach-head at Malaya Zemlya during the German-Soviet War...

, Soviet commanding officer of a landing party, who captured the beach-head

Beach-Head

Beach-Head is a video game developed and published in 1983 by Access Software for the Atari 8-bit and Commodore 64 home computers in the US. Versions for the C16, ZX Spectrum, BBC Micro and Acorn Electron were published in Europe by U.S...

 of Malaya Zemlya

Malaya Zemlya

Malaya Zemlya was a Soviet uphill outpost on Cape Myskhako that was recaptured after fierce, bloody battles with the Germans during the Battle of Caucasus, on the night of 4 February 1943...

, a Hero of the Soviet Union

Hero of the Soviet Union

The title Hero of the Soviet Union was the highest distinction in the Soviet Union, awarded personally or collectively for heroic feats in service to the Soviet state and society.-Overview:...

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Ship is currently held under the patronage of Zelenograd

Zelenograd

Zelenograd is a city, which, along with the territories and settlements under its jurisdiction, forms one of the administrative okrugs of Moscow - Zelenograd Administrative Okrug...

 city.

Combat action

Caesar Kunikov was the flagship of the Russian squadron the participated in the August 2008 Russian-Georgian naval skirmish.

External links

• http://flot.sevastopol.info/photos/photo_desant/cesar_00.htm