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Ported to OBJ from the model provided by our friends over at the Pack 3D website. Original is from Cold Waters. NO MODEL DOWNLOAD.

Leninskiy Komsomol (Russian Ленинский Комсомол) was probably the most famous and certainly one of the most significant classes of large Russian dual purpose dry cargo transports built for the Soviet Union during the Cold War. A total of 25 were built between 1959 and 1968, and they were known at the time as the turbo-runners due to their modern gas turbine engines, which made them very fast for such large transports (20 knots top speed at just over 16,000 tons DWT). They were built this way for potential military use as blockade runners or as fast transports in wartime. They were also excellent deep water vessels, with surprisingly good stability and seaworthiness, and made quite the impression on the West at the time as to just how far Soviet transport shipbuilding capability had come since World War II. They were as good as anything the West was making at the time, and Leninskiy Komsomol class transports would be featured in various news stories in the years that followed during such events as the Cuban Missile Crisis, the war in Angola, the Vietnam War , and the Arabi-Israeli War of 1973 (aka the Yom Kippur War). Their only major drawback was that their turbine engines couldn't stand the strain of being operated at or above redline speeds for very long, and there were a number of turbine blade failures that occurred as a result of this. The ship would literally lurch with such force that people would be thrown off their feet and often injured whenever this happened, and that was why ship captains would never run at redline speed unless it was an absolute emergency. This drawback was considered an acceptable risk considering all of the good things that Leninskiy Komsomol had to offer its operators, and all ships in the class would go on to have very long service lives. Four ships in the class were specially fitted for military use, and these could be distinguished from their civilian brethren both by their military grade radars, their slightly different and larger topside cargo hatches, and their being a bit longer and having more beam than the civilian version. The Soviet Union began removing Leninskiy Komsomol from service starting in the mid-1980s, and most of them had already been scrapped by the time the Cold War ended with the collapse of the Soviet Union at the end of 1991. All surviving Leninskiy Komsomols regardless of their location in the world were scrapped by the end of the millennium. To find out more about Leninskiy Komsomol, follow the link below:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leninsky…

This is the game stock model, with only two minor changes on my part. First, I had to provide my own textures for the radars, since it wasn't included in Pack 3D's archive at the time I downloaded it. Second, I retextured the deck with a darker shade of rust orange in order to better fit with my other Cold War era Soviet navy ship models in my online Virtual Navy gallery.

As the history implies, this is going to be your Soviet Cold War era transport of choice whenever you need to get a lot of stuff somewhere in the world (other than fuels and such) and get it there as quickly as possible.

For non-profit, non-commercial use only.

Description

Ported to OBJ from the model provided by our friends over at the Pack 3D website. Original is from Cold Waters. NO MODEL DOWNLOAD.

Leninskiy Komsomol (Russian Ленинский Комсомол) was probably the most famous and certainly one of the most significant classes of large Russian dual purpose dry cargo transports built for the Soviet Union during the Cold War. A total of 25 were built between 1959 and 1968, and they were known at the time as the turbo-runners due to their modern gas turbine engines, which made them very fast for such large transports (20 knots top speed at just over 16,000 tons DWT). They were built this way for potential military use as blockade runners or as fast transports in wartime. They were also excellent deep water vessels, with surprisingly good stability and seaworthiness, and made quite the impression on the West at the time as to just how far Soviet transport shipbuilding capability had come since World War II. They were as good as anything the West was making at the time, and Leninskiy Komsomol class transports would be featured in various news stories in the years that followed during such events as the Cuban Missile Crisis, the war in Angola, the Vietnam War , and the Arabi-Israeli War of 1973 (aka the Yom Kippur War). Their only major drawback was that their turbine engines couldn't stand the strain of being operated at or above redline speeds for very long, and there were a number of turbine blade failures that occurred as a result of this. The ship would literally lurch with such force that people would be thrown off their feet and often injured whenever this happened, and that was why ship captains would never run at redline speed unless it was an absolute emergency. This drawback was considered an acceptable risk considering all of the good things that Leninskiy Komsomol had to offer its operators, and all ships in the class would go on to have very long service lives. Four ships in the class were specially fitted for military use, and these could be distinguished from their civilian brethren both by their military grade radars, their slightly different and larger topside cargo hatches, and their being a bit longer and having more beam than the civilian version. The Soviet Union began removing Leninskiy Komsomol from service starting in the mid-1980s, and most of them had already been scrapped by the time the Cold War ended with the collapse of the Soviet Union at the end of 1991. All surviving Leninskiy Komsomols regardless of their location in the world were scrapped by the end of the millennium. To find out more about Leninskiy Komsomol, follow the link below:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leninsky…

This is the game stock model, with only two minor changes on my part. First, I had to provide my own textures for the radars, since it wasn't included in Pack 3D's archive at the time I downloaded it. Second, I retextured the deck with a darker shade of rust orange in order to better fit with my other Cold War era Soviet navy ship models in my online Virtual Navy gallery.

As the history implies, this is going to be your Soviet Cold War era transport of choice whenever you need to get a lot of stuff somewhere in the world (other than fuels and such) and get it there as quickly as possible.

For non-profit, non-commercial use only.