Name Caesar Kunikov Commissioned 30 October 1986 Length 112 m Part of Black Sea Fleet | Namesake Caesar Lvovich Kunikov Homeport Sevastopol Draft 4.26 m | |
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Status in active service, as of 2012 Class and type Ropucha-class landing ship Builders Stocznia Polnocna S A, Gdańsk | ||
Caesar Kunikov (BDK-64) (Russian: «Цезарь Куников» (БДК-64)) is a Project 775 (NATO reporting name: Ropucha-I) class large landing ship (Bol'shoy Desatnyy Korabl) of the Russian Navy. She is named after Caesar Lvovich Kunikov, the commanding officer of a landing party that captured the beach-head of Malaya Zemlya, a Hero of the Soviet Union.
The ship was built at the Stocznia Pólnocna shipyard in Gdańsk, Poland, and launched on 30 October 1986.
She is currently in service with Black Sea Fleet's 197th Landing Ship Brigade, of the 30th Division of Surface Ships, and homeported in Sevastopol. She is under the patronage of the city of Zelenograd.
Combat action
Caesar Kunikov was the flagship of the Russian squadron that participated in the battle off the coast of Abkhazia during the 2008 South Ossetia war.
In October, 2015 Caesar Kunikov was sent to Syria with a cargo of weapons and ammo for Syrian Arab Army.