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For other uses, see Metel (disambiguation).
Career (USSR) 
Builder: Zhadanova / Voroshilova Laid down: 18 December 1931 Launched: 15 June 1934 Commissioned: 18 November 1934 Decommissioned: 1954 Honours and
awards:Guards Fate: Scrapped ? General characteristics Displacement: 619 tons Length: 71.5 m Beam: 7.4 m Draught: 2.6 m Propulsion: 2 turbines, 5700 hp Speed: 23 knots Range: 930 nm at 14 knots Complement: 114 men Armament: two 102 mm guns, three 37 mm guns, three 12,7 machine guns, one torpedo tube, two bomb launchers and 78 mines "Metel" (from Russian: "Метель" - "Blizzard") was a Guards Torpedo boat, Storm class, of the Soviet Navy. Commissioned in 1934, it was attached to the Pacific Fleet. During World War II the ship fought mainly against the Imperial Japanese Navy in the Far East. On August 26, 1945 it acquired guards status and the ship's commander, Captain-Lieutenant L. N. Balyakin, was awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union on September 14.
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Categories:- Ships of the Soviet Navy
- World War II ships of the Soviet Union
- 1934 ships
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