Built as a cargo vessel by the Krasnoye Sormovo Zavod yard at Gorky for the U.S.S.R. Government.
24 April 1978 keel laid down.
Launched under the name GAZLI.
Tonnage 2.484 gross, 1.321 net, 3.134 dwt. Dim. 114.20 x 13.21m
Powered by two 6-cyl Karl Liebknecht diesel engines, 1.320 bhp., speed 10.75 knots.
29 April 1979 completed.
Did belong to the Sea River Sormovskiy type cargo vessels of which many where built.
1994 By Caspian Shipping Co, Azerbaijan renamed in TOVUZ.
http://www.equasis gives 2010: Owner Azerbaijan State Caspian at Baki, Azerbaijan.
IMO No 7740881. Call sign 4JEB, in service.
Azerbaijan 1994 50m sg186, scott437d
Marine News 1994/743. Soviet Merchant Ships by Ambrose Greenway. Register of Merchant ships completed in 1979.