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Puzzle #20 was Yury Dolgorukiy.
Yury Dolgorukiy is a Borei-class nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine of the Russian Navy, and the lead vessel of the class. Named after the founder of Moscow, Yuri Dolgorukiy, the vessel was laid down on 2 November 1996 and was first planned to enter service in 2001. However, project for the R-39M SLBM that the Borei class was supposed to carry was abandoned after several failed tests, and the submarine was redesigned for the new RSM-56 Bulava SLBM.
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What the record says
Puzzle 20 ran on 29 Jul 2026 and the answer was Yury Dolgorukiy, played with 6 guesses against 6 columns. On the record: Class - submarine; Navy - Russia. The numbers: Commissioned - 2010; Length - 170 m. 2 of the 6 columns are blank in the source (Displacement and Fate), so nobody could score them either way.
The photograph is by Vadim Savitskiy, licensed CC BY 4.0.
Shipdle builds its record from Wikidata - CC0 1.0 and Wikimedia Commons photographs - licence verified per photo (US government public domain, PD-old, CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA; never NC or ND). The description above comes from the same place the game credits on every reveal: English Wikipedia summary excerpt, CC BY-SA 4.0. The puzzle itself is still playable in the archive, and every answer that has been and gone is listed on the past-answers page.
How it scored
- Class
- submarine
- Navy
- Russia
- Commissioned
- 2010
- Displacement
- Not recorded
- Fate
- Not recorded
- Length
- 170 m