September 1968. Mediterranean Sea.

Country: USSR.
Class, [Type]: Kashin, [DDG].
Homeport: Sevastopol.

Builder: 61 Kommunara Shipbuilding yard, Nikolaev, USSR.
Laid down date: 25 June 1965.
Launch date: 30 June 1966.
Commission date: 30 December 1967.
Decommission date: 1 November 1989.

Displacement ( tons ): 3465 standard, 4315 full load.
Dimensions ( metres ): 144 x 15,8 x 4,5.
Main machinery: 4 x M-3 gas turbines ( 96000 hp ).
Speed ( knots ): 35.
Range ( miles ): 3500 at 18 knots.
Complement: 269 ( 25 officers ).

Guns: 2 x 2 76mm AK-726.
Missiles: SAM: 2 x 2 SS-N-1М ( 32 missiles ).
Mines: 16.
A/S weapons: 2 x 6 mortairs RBU-1000; 2 x 12 mortairs RBU-6000.
Torpedoes: 1 x 5 533mm.
Mines: 22 IGDM-500 or 14 KAM or 18 KRAB or 16 KSM or 14 Serpey.

Radar: Air/surface Search: Head Net C, Big Net; Fire Control: 2 x Peel Group, 2 x Owl Screech; Navigation: 1 x Don-2, 1 x Don Kay.
Sonar: MG-311 Vychegda.
Countermeasures: Krab-11.

Comment: Pennant numbers - 529 (1967), 524 (1971), 529 (1972), 536 (1973), 196 (1973), 156 (1975), 159 (1977), 724 (1978), 720 (1978), 758 (1978), 705 (1984), 711 (1989), 708 (1990), 818 (1993).