The Golden Horn Bay.Leaving port of Vladivostok. June 24, 1969. Photo by Nikolay Alekseyevich Nazarov. The whaling flotilla "Soviet Russia"("Sovetskaya Rossiya") consisted of a whaling factory vessel
(design 392) and 21 whalers type "Mirny"
design 393. All of them required an ordered number and a name starting with the letter "B" (except for No. 5 "Komsomolets Primorya"), while one whaler was used as a training and search vessel, which preparation of harpooners and exploration of whale aggregations..

According to the regular schedule of the Ministry of Fisheries of the USSR, the crew of the whale base on the first voyage is 640 people, 31 people for each whaler.
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