1978. Black Sea. Photo from the archives A. Lesikova.

Country: USSR.
Class, [Type]: Krivak, [FFG].
Homeport: Sevastopol.

Builder: Zaliv Shipbuilding yard, Kerch, USSR.
Laid down date: 28 May 1976.
Launch date: 7 May 1977.
Commission date: 30 December 1977.
Decommission date: 1 August 1997.

Displacement ( tons ): 2835 standard, 3200 full load.
Dimensions ( metres ): 123,5 x 14,5 x 4,3.
Main machinery: COGAG: 2 x DK59 gas turbines ( 36000 hp ); 2 x DO63 gas turbines ( 12000 hp ).
Speed ( knots ): 32.
Range ( miles ): 5000 at 14 knots
Complement: 192 ( 23 officers ).

Guns: 2 x 2 76mm AK-726.
Missiles: SAM: 2 x 2 SS-N-14 ( 40 missiles ).
Mines: 16.
A/S weapons: 1 x 4 URK-5 SS-N-14 SIlex; 2 x 12 mortairs RBU-6000.
Torpedoes: 2 x 4 533mm.
Mines: 16.

Radar: Air/surface Search: Head Net C; Fire Control: 2 x Eye Bowl; Navigation: Don Kay, Don-2.
Sonar: Bull Nose, Mare Tail.
Countermeasures: Decoys: 4 x PK-16.

Comment: collided with USS Yorktown (CG-48) in February 1988 in what some observers have called "the last incident of the Cold War". In summer of 1997 during the division of the Black Sea fleet she was transferred to the Ukrainian Navy, receiving the name of Dnipropetrovsk. Pennant numbers - 195, 192 (1978), 805 (1978), 878 (1978), 807 (1987), 811 (1981), 817 (1984), 807 (1997).