Leninets class submarine
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The Leninets or L-class were the second class of submarines to be built for the Soviet Navy
Soviet Navy
The Soviet Navy was the naval arm of the Soviet Armed Forces. Often referred to as the Red Fleet, the Soviet Navy would have played an instrumental role in a Warsaw Pact war with NATO, where it would have attempted to prevent naval convoys from bringing reinforcements across the Atlantic Ocean...

. They were minelaying submarines and were based on the British L-class submarine
British L class submarine
The British L class submarine were originally planned under the emergency war programme as an improved version of the British E class submarine. The scale of change allowed the L class to become a separate class....

, HMS L55
HMS L55
HMS L55 was a British L class submarine built by Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Govan, Clyde. She was laid down on 21 September 1917 and was commissioned on 19 December 1918.- British service :...

, which was sunk during the British intervention in the Russian Civil War
Russian Civil War
The Russian Civil War was a multi-party war that occurred within the former Russian Empire after the Russian provisional government collapsed to the Soviets, under the domination of the Bolshevik party. Soviet forces first assumed power in Petrograd The Russian Civil War (1917–1923) was a...

. Some experience from the previous Dekabrist-class submarine
Dekabrist class submarine
The Dekabrist-class were the first class of submarines built for the Soviet Navy after the October Revolution. They were authorized in the Soviet Naval Shipbuilding Program of 1926....

s was also utilised. Thse boats were of the saddle tank type and mines were carried in two stern galleries as pioneered on the pre-war Krab
Russian submarine Krab
The Krab was a submarine built for the Imperial Russian Navy. She was designed by Mikhail Petrovich Nalyotov as the world's first submarine minelayer, although due to construction delays the German UC submarines entered service earlier. The mines were stowed in two horizontal galleries exiting...

, the world's first minelaying submarine. These boats were considered successful by the Soviets and 25 were built in 4 groups between 1931 and 1941. Groups 3 and 4 had more powerful engines and higher speed.

Ships

  • Group 1: 6 ships built (L1 to L6), all launched in 1931. 3 Baltic Fleet
    Baltic Fleet
    The Twice Red Banner Baltic Fleet - is the Russian Navy's presence in the Baltic Sea. In previous historical periods, it has been part of the navy of Imperial Russia and later the Soviet Union. The Fleet gained the 'Twice Red Banner' appellation during the Soviet period, indicating two awards of...

    , 3 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....

    , including Soviet submarine L-3
    Soviet submarine L-3
    The World War II Soviet submarine L-3 belonged to the L-class or Leninets class of minelayer submarines. It had been named Bolshevik and later Frunzenets, before it was decided that submarines should stop having names and carry numbers instead....

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Number Name Meaning Fleet Launched Fate
L1 Leninets (Ленинец) Follower of Lenin Baltic 28 February 1931 Sunk by German Artillery October 1941, salvaged, scrapped 1945
L2 Stalinets (Сталинец) Follower of Stalin Baltic 21 May 1931 Sunk by Mine 15 November 1941
L3
Soviet submarine L-3
The World War II Soviet submarine L-3 belonged to the L-class or Leninets class of minelayer submarines. It had been named Bolshevik and later Frunzenets, before it was decided that submarines should stop having names and carry numbers instead....

Frunzenets (Фрунзенец) Follower of Frunze
Mikhail Frunze
Mikhail Vasilyevich Frunze was a Bolshevik leader during and just prior to the Russian Revolution of 1917.-Life and Political Activity:Frunze was born in Bishkek, then a small Imperial Russian garrison town in the Kyrgyz part of Turkestan, to a Moldovan medical practitioner and his Russian wife...

Baltic 8 August 1931 Decommissioned 15 February 1971, conning tower preserved as a memorial
L4 Garibaldets (Гарибальдиец) Follower of Garibaldi Black Sea 31 August 1931 Decommissioned 17 February 1956
L5 Chartist (Чартист) An adherent of Chartism
Chartism
Chartism was a movement for political and social reform in the United Kingdom during the mid-19th century, between 1838 and 1859. It takes its name from the People's Charter of 1838. Chartism was possibly the first mass working class labour movement in the world...

Black Sea 5 June 1932 25 December 1955
L6 Carbonari (Карбонарий) Carbonari
Carbonari
The Carbonari were groups of secret revolutionary societies founded in early 19th-century Italy. The Italian Carbonari may have further influenced other revolutionary groups in Spain, France, Portugal and possibly Russia. Although their goals often had a patriotic and liberal focus, they lacked a...

Black Sea 3 November 1932 Sunk 18 April 1944 by German sub-chaser UJ 104 near Constanza

  • Group 2 : 6 ships built (L7 to L 12), launched between 1935 and 1936. All built for the Pacific Fleet by plant 202 "Dalzavod" Vladivostok and plant 199 Komsomolsk-na-Amure.

Number Name Meaning Fleet Launched Fate
L7 Voroshilovets Follower of Kliment Voroshilov
Kliment Voroshilov
Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov , popularly known as Klim Voroshilov was a Soviet military officer, politician, and statesman...

Pacific 15 May 1935 sunk 1941-42??
L8 Dzerzhinets Follower of Dzerzhinski Pacific 10 September 1935 Decommissioned 1950s
L9 Kirovets Follower of Kirov
Sergey Kirov
Sergei Mironovich Kirov , born Sergei Mironovich Kostrikov, was a prominent early Bolshevik leader in the Soviet Union. Kirov rose through the Communist Party ranks to become head of the Party organization in Leningrad...

Pacific 25 August 1935 Decommissioned 1950s
L10 Menzhinets Follower of Menzhinski
Vyacheslav Menzhinsky
Vyacheslav Rudolfovich Menzhinsky was a Polish-Russian revolutionary, a Soviet statesman and Party official who served as chairman of the OGPU from 1926 to 1934...

Pacific 18 December 1936 Decommissioned 1950s
L11 Sverdlovets Follower of Sverdlov
Yakov Sverdlov
Yakov Mikhaylovich Sverdlov ; known under pseudonyms "Andrei", "Mikhalych", "Max", "Smirnov", "Permyakov" — 16 March 1919) was a Bolshevik party leader and an official of the Russian Soviet Republic.-Early life:...

Pacific 4 December 1936 Decommissioned 1950s
L12 Molotovets Follower of Molotov Pacific 7 November 1936 Decommissioned 1950s

  • Group 3 : 7 ships built (L13 to L19) launched 1937 to 1938. All for the Pacific Fleet. New project, hull based at Srednyaya class, 18 mines.

Ship Launched Fate
L13 Decommissioned 1950s
L14 Decommissioned 1950s
L15 Transferred to the Northern Fleet via the Panama Canal
Panama Canal
The Panama Canal is a ship canal in Panama that joins the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean and is a key conduit for international maritime trade. Built from 1904 to 1914, the canal has seen annual traffic rise from about 1,000 ships early on to 14,702 vessels measuring a total of 309.6...

 in late 1942, decommissioned 1950s
L16 Torpedoed by Japanese submarine I-25
Japanese submarine I-25
was a B1-Type submarine of the Imperial Japanese Navy that served in World War II, took part in the Attack on Pearl Harbor, and carried out the only aerial bombing on the continental United States during wartime; during the so-called Lookout Air Raid; and the Bombardment of Fort Stevens, both...

 on 11 October 1942, near the coast of Oregon
Oregon
Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is located on the Pacific coast, with Washington to the north, California to the south, Nevada on the southeast and Idaho to the east. The Columbia and Snake rivers delineate much of Oregon's northern and eastern...

 while being transferred to the Soviet Northern Fleet
L17 Decommissioned 1950s
L18 Decommissioned 1950s
L19 Sunk in 1945

  • Group 4 : 6 ships built (L20 to L25) launched 1940 to 1941. 3 Baltic Fleet, 3 Black Sea Fleet. This group added stern torpedo tubes and new, more powerful diesel engines.

Ship Fleet Launched Fate
L20 Baltic 14 April 1940 Decommissioned 1950s
L21 Baltic 17 July 1940 Decommissioned 1950s
L22 Baltic 23 September 1939 Transferred to Northern Fleet 1941, Decommissioned 1950s
L23 Black Sea 29 April 1940 Sunk 17 January 1944 by German sub-chaser UJ106
L24 Black Sea 17 December 1940 Sunk 24 December 1942 by mines off the Bulgarian coast, wreck located by divers in 1991
L25 Black Sea 26 February 1941 Unfinished. Sunk while being towed from Tuapse
Tuapse
Tuapse is a town in Krasnodar Krai, Russia, situated on the northeast shore of the Black Sea, south of Gelendzhik and north of Sochi. It serves as the administrative center of Tuapsinsky District, although administratively it is separate from it...

 to 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....

in December 1944
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