OVERVIEW: The SONYA class coastal minesweeper is a diesel powered, fiberglass-sheathed wooden hull minesweeper.

DETAILS:   At least two vessels were transferred to Cuba.

 

NOTES: Displacement: 350 tons standard
       Speed: 15 knts
       Range: 1,600 nm @ 14 knts, 3,000 nm @ 10 knts.
       Complement: 43 (approx.)
       In Commission: 1973. 
       Completed: 35 (approx.)	  

SOURCES: Norman Polmar, "Guide to the Soviet Navy, 3rd ed. (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1983), 214 ; 
