Kosmonavt Yuriy Gagarin (Russian: «Космона́вт Ю́рий Гага́рин») was a Soviet space control-monitoring ship or Vigilship (Veladora) that was devoted to detecting and receiving satellite communications.

Named after cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the ship was completed in December 1971 to support the Soviet space program.

[1]: 309 It had very distinguishable looks due to two extremely large and two smaller parabolic "dish" antennas placed on top of the hull.

[1] These ships greatly extended the tracking range when the orbits of cosmonauts and unmanned missions were not over the USSR.

The ship was sold for scrap shortly after the break-up of the Soviet Union along with Akademik Sergei Korolev.