Don-class submarine tender

The Don class submarine tender was the NATO reporting name for a group of submarine tenders built for the Soviet Navy in the late 1950s. The Soviet designation was Project 310 Batur.

Design
The class were designed to support Soviet submarines on distant operations. They had significant self-defence armament and contained numerous workshops

Ships
7 ships were built for the Soviet Navy and one ship was exported to Indonesia

The Soviet ships were mostly named after submarine commanders killed in World War II:


 * Dmitriy Galkin, named after Dmitriy Galkin
 * Fyodor Vidyaev, named after Fyodor Vidyayev
 * Kamchatskiy Komsomolets
 * Magomed Gadzhiev, named after Magomet Gadzhiyev
 * Magdanskiy Komsomolets
 * Viktor Kotelnikov named after Viktor Kotelnikov