Soviet destroyer Nezamozhnik
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 Russian Empire
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| Name: | Zante |
| Laid down: | 1916 |
| Fate: | claimed by the Ukrainian People's Republic (1917) |
 UNR / Ukrainian State
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| Name: | Zante |
| Renamed: | Kyiv (May 1918) |
| Fate: | captured by the Red Army (January 1919) |
 Soviet Russia
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| Captured: | January 1919 |
| Fate: | taken by the White Army |
 White Guard
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| Captured: | 1919 |
 Ukrainian SSR
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| Acquired: | 1919 |
 Soviet Union
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| Acquired: | 1922 |
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| Fate: | sunk 1956 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 1,760 t (1,730 long tons) full load |
| Length: | 95 m (311 ft 8 in) |
| Beam: | 9.1 m (29 ft 10 in) |
| Draught: | 3.8 m (12 ft 6 in) |
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| Propulsion: | 2 shafts; 2 steam turbines |
| Speed: | 33 knots (61 km/h; 38 mph) |
| Range: | 1,210 nmi (2,240 km; 1,390 mi) at 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph) |
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Nezamozhnik (Russian/Ukrainian: Незамо́жник) was a Russian Fidonisy-class destroyer left unfinished after World War I that was later captured by revolutionary Ukrainian forces, completed, and put in service. After switching hands three more times between the Soviet Navy and the White Guard, it eventually saw action in World War II.
As part of the Russian Empire's last shipbuilding program prior to World War I, the order to produce a ship named Zante (the Italian name for Zakynthos, in honour of Fyodor Ushakov's campaign in the Ionian Islands in 1798–99) for the Imperial Russian Navy was set into motion in 1914. This ship would be part of a larger set intended to strengthen Russia's Black Sea Fleet in response to significant strides by the Ottoman Navy.
Initially four Fidonisi class ships were ordered. However, after assessing the Ushakovskoyi class as among the most successful ships of this type, the Naval General Staff in 1916 ordered another 12 ships of this type.
The Ushakovskoyi series of ships were named in memory of the victory of the Russian fleet under the command of Fyodor Ushakov, and therefore were known as Ushakovska series. The series was designed at the request of naval officers and the management of the Company Nikolaev factories and shipyards (the latter for the sake of simplification and cost reduction of vehicles) who wanted a new ship that repeated the main technical solutions of the Fidonisy-class destroyer. The designs of the ships of the Fidonisy class repeated the main features of the Derzky class, but with the completion of the construction and armament. New ships differed from the old ships of the Derzky class in the presence of a steam turbine and auxiliary drive mechanisms and enhanced artillery. Engineers also upgraded the power equipment.
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