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Caesar Kunikov (BDK-64) (Russian: «Цезарь Куников» (БДК-64), romanized: Tsezar' Kunikov) was a Project 775 (NATO reporting name: Ropucha-I-class) large landing ship (Bol'shoy Desantnyy Korabl) of the Russian Navy. She was named after Caesar Lvovich Kunikov, the commanding officer of a landing party that captured the beach-head of Malaya Zemlya, a Hero of the Soviet Union. The ship was built at the Stocznia Północna shipyard in Gdańsk, Poland, and launched on 30 October 1986.She was in service with Black Sea Fleet's 197th Landing Ship Brigade, of the 30th Division of Surface Ships, and homeported in Sevastopol. She was under the patronage of the city of Zelenograd (since 1998) and Chelyabinsk Oblast (since 2011). She was destroyed by Ukrainian forces off the coast of Crimea in February 2024 during the Russian invasion of Ukraine.