Pyotr Lebedev (research vessel)

History
Name:	Chapayev[1]
Builder:	Turku repair yard, Turku, Finland[1]
Launched:	1957
Soviet Union
Name:	Pyotr Lebedev
Namesake:	Pyotr Lebedev
In service:	1966
Out of service:	1977
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Name:	Pyotr Lebedev[1]
Identification:	IMO number: 5276159[1]
Status:	in active service
General characteristics
Type:	Research vessel/survey vessel
Tonnage:	3,642 GT[1] 1,675 DWT[1]

Pyotr Lebedev is a research vessel, built in Turku, Finland, originally as a merchant vessel Chapayev in 1957. She was subsequently acquired for the Soviet Union and refitted as a research ship.^[2] The vessel was owned and operated by the Andreev Acoustics Institute, and was used to make hydrophysical observations of the Atlantic Ocean such as during the Polygon experiment.^[3] Pyotr Lebedev possessed five on-board laboratories used to study hydroacoustics, hydrology, hydrobiology, hydrochemistry, and electronics.^[3] The ship was active as a research vessel from 1967 until 1977.^[4] She is current registered in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.^[1]

Notes

References

• Brekhovskikh, Leonid Maksimovich (1990). Ocean and Man: Present and Future. Moscow: Nauka Publishers. ISBN 5-02-022266-6. 

• Tatusko, R.; Levitus, S., eds. (2002). Russian Marine Expeditionary Investigations of the World Ocean. Silver Spring, MD: US Department of Commerce. OCLC 52253776.