The Don class submarine tender was the NATO reporting name

NATO reporting name

NATO reporting names are classified code names for military equipment of the Eastern Bloc...

 for a group of submarine tender

Submarine tender

A submarine tender is a type of ship that supplies and supports submarines.Submarines are small compared to most oceangoing vessels, and generally do not have the ability to carry large amounts of food, fuel, torpedoes, and other supplies, nor to carry a full array of maintenance equipment and...

s built for the Soviet Navy

Soviet Navy

The Soviet Navy was the naval arm of the Soviet Armed Forces. Often referred to as the Red Fleet, the Soviet Navy would have played an instrumental role in a Warsaw Pact war with NATO, where it would have attempted to prevent naval convoys from bringing reinforcements across the Atlantic Ocean...

 in the late 1950s. The Soviet designation was Project 310 Batur.

Design

The class were designed to support Soviet submarines on distant operations. They had significant self defence armament and contained numerous workshops

Ships

7 ships were built for the Soviet Navy and one ship was exported to Indonesia

The Soviet ships were mostly named after submarine commanders killed in World War II:

• Dmitriy Galkin , named after Dmitriy Galkin
• Fyodor Vidyaev, named after Fyodor Vidyayev
  Fyodor Vidyayev
  Fyodor Alekseyevich Vidyayev was a Soviet Navy submarine commander during World War II. He was killed in action in 1943....
  
  
• Kamchatskiy Komsomolets
• Magomed Gadzhiev, named after Magomet Gadzhiyev
  Magomet Gadzhiyev
  Magomet Imadutinovich Gadzhiyev was a Soviet Navy submarine commander and Hero of the Soviet Union. He fought and died during World War II.-Biography:...
  
  
• Magdanskiy Komsomolets
• Viktor Kotelnikov named after Viktor Kotelnikov