Azard

Azard (Азард) was one of eight Orfey-class destroyers built for the Russian Imperial Navy during World War I. Completed in 1916, she served with the Baltic Fleet and joined the Bolshevik Red Fleet after the October Revolution of 1917. The ship had to be towed from Helsinki, Grand Duchy of Finland, to Kronstadt in early 1918 during the "Ice Cruise". She was active during the Russian Civil War, taking part in several engagements against British ships during the British campaign in the Baltic. The destroyer was renamed Zinoviev (Зиновьев) in 1922 and Artem (Aртём) in 1928. She was still in service with the Soviet Baltic Fleet when the Axis powers invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, and participated in the Gulf of Riga campaign. The ship was sunk by a mine on 28 August during the Soviet evacuation of Tallinn, Estonia.

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Artem; Zinoviev
length 98 metre,
Orfey-class destroyer, destroyer, Leningradsky Metallichesky Zavod, Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, Soviet Navy, Imperial Russian Navy, Russian Empire,