From the ships wikipedia entry (the only concrete source I can find, loathe as I am to use it:)
The Kosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was a Soviet space control-monitoring and surveillance ship that was devoted to detecting and receiving satellite communications. Named after Cosmonautt Yuri Gagarin, she was completed in December 1971 to support the Soviet space program. The ship also conducted upper atmosphere and outer space research.
It had very distinguishable looks due to two extremely large and two smaller antenna dishes placed on top of the hull.
In Soviet times, the Kosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was the world's largest communications ship and was the flagship of a fleet of communications ships. These ships greatly extended the tracking range when the orbits of cosmonauts and unmanned missions were not over the USSR.
In 1975, the ship was a part of the Soviet-American Apollo-Soyuz joint test program.
The communications ships belonged to the Soviet Academy of Sciences. The maritime part fell under the responsibility of the Baltic- and Black sea shipping. The ships had home ports in the Ukraine (the Kosmonaut Yuri Gagarin and the Akademik Sergei Korolev) so, after the fall of the Soviet Union the ships were transferred to Ukraine – ending their role in spaceflight.
She was sold for scrap shortly after the break-up of the Soviet Union along with another surveillance ship, the Akademik Sergei Korolev.
It had very distinguishable looks due to two extremely large and two smaller antenna dishes placed on top of the hull.
In Soviet times, the Kosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was the world's largest communications ship and was the flagship of a fleet of communications ships. These ships greatly extended the tracking range when the orbits of cosmonauts and unmanned missions were not over the USSR.
In 1975, the ship was a part of the Soviet-American Apollo-Soyuz joint test program.
The communications ships belonged to the Soviet Academy of Sciences. The maritime part fell under the responsibility of the Baltic- and Black sea shipping. The ships had home ports in the Ukraine (the Kosmonaut Yuri Gagarin and the Akademik Sergei Korolev) so, after the fall of the Soviet Union the ships were transferred to Ukraine – ending their role in spaceflight.
She was sold for scrap shortly after the break-up of the Soviet Union along with another surveillance ship, the Akademik Sergei Korolev.
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