| Career | |
|---|---|
| Name: | Zarya |
| Operator: | Russian Academy of Sciences |
| Builder: | Laivateollisuus Shipyard, Turku, Finland[1] |
| Launched: | 1952[1] |
| Homeport: | Murmansk[1] |
| Status: | Unknown |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Three-masted gaff-rigged schooner[2] |
| Displacement: | 600 long tons (610 t) full load[1] |
| Length: | 52.56 m (172 ft 5 in)[1] |
| Beam: | 8.97 m (29 ft 5 in)[1] |
| Draught: | 3.38 m (11 ft 1 in)[1] |
| Propulsion: | 1 × 300 bhp (224 kW) diesel engine, 1 shaft[1] |
| Speed: | 8 knots (15 km/h; 9.2 mph)[1] |
| Crew: | 35 + 10 mission crew[1] |
Zarya (Russian: Заря, The Sunrise) was a sailing-motor schooner built in 1952, and since 1953 used by the Russian Academy of Sciences to study Earth's magnetic field.
After the Continuation War Finland was ordered by the USSR to provide 50 wooden sailing-motor fishing schooners as reparations. One of them was taken, and in 1952 modified, into a low magnetic research vessel named Zarya. Since 1953 the ship was used to measure the magnetic field of the Earth. She participated in the International Geophysical Year in 1957-1958.[3]
In 1976 a rupes on planet Mercury was named after the ship.[4]