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22 July 2004 Russia issued a Souvenir Sheet of 12P for the 300th Anniversary of the Admiraltejskiye verfi (Admiralty shipyards) in St Petersburg, the stamp depict the launching of a ship of the SARATOV-Class, and the sailing warship POLTAVA. Most probably the SARATOV is depict. In the margin some other ships you can see, of which I think she have been built on the yard.

Built as an icebreaker tanker under yard No 02733 by Admiraltejskiye verfi, St Petersburg, Russia, for the Lukoijl_Arktik-Tanker, St Petersburg, Russia.
19 November 1999 keel laid down.
08 June 2002 launched under the name SARATOV, four sisters, ASTRAKHAN, MAGAS, KALININGRAD and USINSK.
Double hulled tankers.
Tonnage 13.815 gross, net?, 19.800dwt., dim. 154.00 x 24.50 x 13.40m.
Powered by ? Screws ? speed 15.4 knots.
Crew 24.
07 August 2002 completed. Port of registry Kaliningrad.

The 5 ships are intended to be used to transport crude-oil from the remote terminal on Cape Varandej on the coast of the Barents Sea to a terminal in Murmansk, from there it will be loaded in supper tankers for export to Rotterdam and America.
The ships can carry four grades of cargoes simultaneously, crude oil, oil products, gas condensate and vegetable oils in conditions of the Arctic and freezing seas.
The tankers can break 0.5-meter thick ice with a speed of 2 miles.

2006 http://www.equasis.org gives she is managed by the Murmansk Shipping Co., at Murmansk. IMO No. 9194000, under Russian flag, call sign UFBN.

April 2008 sold to Pal Shipping-7 Co. Ltd., Malta and renamed GINALDAG, managed by Palmali Shipping Services, Istanbul, Turkey.
2009 Same owner and name.

Russia 2004 12p sgMS ?



The POLTAVA was the first ship-of-the-line for the Imperial Russian Baltic fleet.
15 December 1709 keel laid down at Admiralty Shipyard in St Petersburg, Russia.
Built under the supervision of Tsar Peter I and the shipbuilder F.M. Sklyaev.
Tonnage about 1000 ton. Dim. 34.6 x 11.7 x 4.6m. (draught).
Armament, a total of 54 guns of 18, 12 and 3 pdrs.
Complement 360.
15 June 1712 commissioned.

She was named in honour of the Russian Army victory over the Swedes in the Battle of Poltava on 28 June 1709.
The top of her transom was richly carved and represented the allegorical image of the Poltava victory.
She took part in the Great Northern War (1700 – 1721) against the Swedes.
Was sometimes flagship of Tsar Peter I.
05 September 1713 together with a combined squadron sailed in the Gulf of Finland.
July 1716 together with a Russian squadron she sailed from Revel (Tallinn) to Copenhagen.

From 04 June till 16 July 1717 was she a unit of a squadron of General-Admiral Count F.M. Apraksin, patrolling off the Swedish coast, and used during the landing of Russian troops on the Swedish island Gotland.

1719 Her timbers got dry rot, and there were not dry dock facilities available at that time in Russia, that only her above waterline timbers were replaced.
During 1722 and 1723 as a unit of a squadron used for exercise in the Gulf of Finland.
1725 In reserve
1732 Stricken from the fleet list and broken up.

Russia 1971 10k sg4018 and 2004 12p
Mongolia 1981 1t sg1373.