Memorial Guards Red Banner Submarine S-56 (1939)
690091, Primorsky Krai, Vladivostok, St. Svetlanskaya, 66
About the company:
Medium diesel-electric torpedo submarine. IX bis series type "C".
Technical specifications: 866,1/1107,8 tons; 77,8 x 6,4 x 4,1 m; 4000+1080 hp; 19,45/8,7 knots; 8200/139 miles; 100 m; 4 bow and 2 aft 533-mm TA; 1 - 100-mm and 1 - 45-mm guns; 45 people.
Designed in S. G. Turkova SKB. It was laid down on 24.11.1936 in Leningrad, at Plant N°194 (named after A. Marti), then dismantled and transported to Vladivostok by sections to Plant N°202 ("Dalzavod"), where it was assembled and launched on 25.12.1939, entered service on 20.11.1941 and became part of the Pacific Fleet.
From 5.10.1942 to 8.03.1943, she made the transition from Vladivostok to the Polar through the Panama Canal (passing two oceans - the Pacific and Atlantic) and became part of the Northern Fleet. In the period 1943-1944. made 7 military campaigns, sinking 17.05.1943 tanker "Eurostadt" (1118 BRT), 07.07.1943 minesweeper "M.346" (551 tons), 19.07.1943 patrol ship number "Ki.09" (466 BRT) and 28.01.1944 transport "Heindrich Schulte" (5056 BRT), damaging 17.05.1943 transport "Wartheland" (5096 BRT). In total - 8 military campaigns, 12 torpedo attacks were made, as a result of which 4 warships and enemy transport were sunk and damaged.
For successful combat activity 31.03.1944 was awarded the Order of the Red Banner, and 23.02.1945 was awarded the title of "guards".
In 1953 she returned by the Northern Sea Route to the Pacific Fleet. 14.03.1955 was withdrawn from combat, disarmed and converted into a floating charging station, 20.04.1964 turned into a training station for the struggle for survivability.
9.05.1975 after the restoration of the C-56 installed as a memorial submarine and a branch of the Museum of the Pacific fleet on the shores of the Golden Horn.
In four compartments there is an exposition dedicated to the development of submarine forces in the Pacific Ocean and the history of the ship, three compartments have been restored in the form they had during the war (torpedo, residential and central).
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