Project 61

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SKR-25 - 61 Kommunara - serial no. 1701 - laid down 15.9.59 - launched 31.12.60 - completed 31.12.62; 9.10.62 renamed Komsomolets Ukrainy; from 4.63 attached to the 150th Missile Ship Brigade; 6.64 to 8.64 operations in the Mediterranean, together with KR "Mikhail Kutuzov" and SKR "Soobrazitelnyy" - visited Split and Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia (18.6 to 25.6.64); 10.64 sailed from Sevastopol to Burgas, Bulgaria, with Minister of Defence Grechko and Commander of the Navy Gorshkov onboard; from 6.66 attached to the 21st Anti-Submarine Warfare Brigade; 5.67 to 8.67 operations in the Mediterranean - 5.6 to 30.6.67 operated off the Egyptian coast, together with BPK "Otvazhnyy", "Provornyy" and "Soobrazitelnyy" - temporary basing at Alexandria and Port Said, Egypt; visited Split, Yugoslavia (26.10 to 30.10.67); 4.70 to 5.70 took part in the "Okean-70" exercise - 10.4 to 12.4.70 took part in rescue operations for the submarine "K-8" in the Bay of Biscay, together with PKR "Leningrad" and BPK "Otvazhnyy"; 20.12.70 to 7.5.71 operations in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic Ocean; 5.5 to 20.12.72 operations in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic Ocean; 9.3 to 26.7.73 operations in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic Ocean; 30.8.74 gave aid to the burning BPK "Otvazhnyy" in the Black Sea, and then took part in an investigation of the accident together with BPK "Reshitelnyy"; 23.5.77 to 7.8.79 repairs and modernization at the 61 Kommunara Yard, including replacing of the V-600 missiles with the new V-601 missile; 12.12.80 suffered a fire in the engine room - repaired; 5.81 to 3.82 operations in the Mediterranean, including tracking the USS Nimitz, USS America, USS Forrestal and more than 30 escort ships during October 1981 - 12.81 visited Split, Yugoslavia, together with BPK "Smetlivyy"; 12.83 to 2.84 operations in the Mediterranean - including missile shootings off the island of Crete; 18.11 to 22.11.86 visited Piraeus, Greece, together with PKR "Slava"; 17.11 to 21.11.87 visited Tunis, Tunisia; 28.6 to 2.7.89 visited Istanbul, Turkey; 24.6.91 decomissioned - remained at Troitskaya Bay until 5.95; scrapped at Inkerman 6.95

SKR-44 - 61 Kommunara - serial no. 1702 - laid down 20.7.60 - launched 4.11.61 - completed 26.12.63; 14.3.63 renamed Soobrazitelnyy; inherited the Guards title from earlier ship; from 4.63 attached to the 150th Missile Ship Brigade; 6.64 to 8.64 operations in the Mediterranean, together with KR "Mikhail Kutuzov" and SKR "Komsomolets Ukrainy" - visited Split and Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia (18.6 to 25.6.64); from 6.66 attached to the 21st Anti-Submarine Warfare Brigade; 5.67 to 8.67 operations in the Mediterranean - 5.6 to 30.6.67 operated off the Egyptian coast, together with BPK "Otvazhnyy", "Provornyy" and "Komsomolets Ukrainy" - temporary basing at Alexandria and Port Said, Egypt - visited Varna, Bulgaria (12.8 to 15.8.67); 1.1 to 31.12.68 operations in the Mediterranean (mainly near Egypt), with temporary basing at Alexandria and Port Said, Egypt -  29.1.68 to 4.2.68 visited Kotor and Zelenika, Yugoslavia; 5.69 to 8.69 operations in the Mediterranean, Atlantic Ocean, Carribean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico - together with RKR "Groznyy", BPK "Bedovyy" and four submarines (two Project 670 and two Project 641) - visited Havana, Cuba (20.6 to 27.6.69) - Fort-de-France, Martinique - Bridgetown, Barbados - Conakry, Guinea - took part in a joint Cuban/Soviet exercise in the Gulf of Mexico; 4.74 to 5.74 operations in the Mediterranean - visited Tunis, Tunisia; 1.10.76 to 28.11.78 repairs and modernization at the 61 Kommunara Yard; 6.8.82 transferred to the Northern Fleet - attached to the 120th Missile Ship Brigade; 3.83 training in the Barents Sea, together with KR "Aleksandr Nevskiy", EM "Otchayannyy", "Sovremennyy" and "Byvalyy"; 23.6.83 to 15.3.84 operations in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic Ocean, together with BPK "Ognevoy" and SKR "Leningradskiy Komsomolets" - 8.83 to 11.83 prolonged tracking of the USS "Dwight D. Eisenhower" and later USS "Enterprise" in the Mediterranean - 2.84 to 3.84 tracked the USS "Tarawa" and USS "Saipan" in the Atlantic Ocean; 10.85 to 12.85 operations in the Atlantic Ocean and The Barents Sea - visited Cork, Ireland (26.9 to 30.9.85); 25.11.87 to 12.6.88 operations in the Atlantic Ocean - visited Luanda, Angola (10.12.87 to 20.2.88), Pointe Noire, Congo (22.2 to 27.2.88), Sao Tome, Sao Tome and Principe (29.2 to 6.3.88), Luanda, Angola (9.3 to 12.5.88) and Cotonou, Benin (16.5 to 20.5.88); 1.10.88 relegated to the reserve at Severomorsk, Murmansk Oblast; 3.7.92 decomissioned; early 1994 sold to a company in India for scrapping

SKR-37 - 61 Kommunara - serial no. 1703 - laid down 10.2.61 - launched 1.4.62 - completed 25.12.64; 1.10.64 renamed Provornyy; from 4.65 attached to the 150th Missile Ship Brigade; from 6.66 attached to the 21st Anti-Submarine Warfare Brigade; 5.67 to 8.67 operations in the Mediterranean - 5.6 to 30.6.67 operated off the Egyptian coast, together with BPK "Otvazhnyy", "Komsomolets Ukrainy" and "Soobrazitelnyy" - temporary basing at Alexandria and Port Said, Egypt; 2.7 to 7.7.73 visited Marseille, France, together with RKR "Groznyy" and BPK "Krasnyy Kavkaz"; 9.73 to 12.73 operations in the Mediterranean, together with RKR "Groznyy" and EM "Plamennyy" - 5.10 to 24.10.73 tracked USS "Independence" in the Mediterranean; 22.3.74 to 10.76 repairs and modernized to Project 61E standard at the 61 Kommunara Yard in Nikolayev - ZRK Volna SAM system replaced by ZRK Uragan, two Angara radars replaced by one Fregat-M and one Angara-A and new sonar installed; the ZRK Uragan SAM system was tested several times between 12.77 and 9.81 in the White Sea and the Barents Sea - for a total of 137 SAM launches; 11.77 to 12.78 operations in the Mediterranean (1.1 to 31.12.78 mainly operated off the Syrian coast, with temporary basing in Syrian harbours); 1.3.87 began repairs and modernization at Sevmorzavod, Sevastopol; decomissioned 21.8.90, with repairs 70% complete, due to lack of funding; 1993 scrapped at Inkerman

Orel - 61 Kommunara - serial no. 1704 - laid down 10.8.63 - launched 7.10.64 - completed 31.12.65; 17.2.65 renamed Otvazhnyy; from 6.66 attached to the 21st Anti-Submarine Warfare Brigade; 6.67 to 9.67 operations in the Mediterranean - 5.6 to 30.6.67 operated off the Egyptian coast, together with BPK "Soobrazitelnyy", "Provornyy" and "Komsomolets Ukrainy" - temporary basing at Alexandria and Port Said, Egypt; 1968 to 1969 repairs and modernization at the 61 Kommunara Yard, including replacing of the V-600 missiles with the new V-601 missile and the Angara radar by the Angara-A radar; 3.70 to 7.70 took part in the "Okean-70" exercise (North Sea together with PKR "Leningrad" - 10.4 to 12.4.70 took part in rescue operations for the submarine "K-8" in the Bay of Biscay, together with PKR "Leningrad"; 5.73 to 10.73 operations in the Mediterranean, together with EM "Soznatelnyy" and BPK "Krasnyy Kavkaz" - including tracking the USS "Guadalcanal"; 15.10 to 18.10.73 visited Taranto, Italy, together with KR "Admiral Ushakov"; 19.10 to 22.10.73 visited Messina, Italy, together with KR "Admiral Ushakov"; 10.11.73 to 6.3.74 operations in the Mediterranean; 30.8.74 sank after an explosion in the Volna-M SAM magazine, while approaching Cape Khersonnes (24 fatalities) - rescue operations by BPK "Komsomolets Ukrainy" and EM "Bedovyy"

Stroynyy - 61 Kommunara - serial no. 1705 - laid down 20.3.64 - launched 28.7.65 - completed 15.12.66; 1.67 to 4.67 operations in the Mediterranean and Northern Atlantic, while transferring to the Northern Fleet - attached to the 120th Missile Ship Brigade; 8.9 to 10.9.67 rendered aid to the submarine "K-3", while operating in the Norwegian Sea; 8.69 to 11.69 operations in the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean - visited Reykjavik, Iceland (25.10 to 28.10.69); 28.5.71 to 19.2.72 repairs and modernization at SRZ-35 in Rosta, Murmansk Oblast; 5.72 to 10.72 operations in the Atlantic Ocean - visited Havana, Cuba (10.9 to 28.9.72), together with KR "Murmansk"; 4.73 to 8.73 operations in the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean; 6.11.80 to 14.7.81 repairs and modernized to Project 61MP at the 61 Kommunara Yard; 9.81 to 5.82 operations in the Mediterranean; 4.83 took part in the "Okean-83" exercise; 15.1 to 4.6.85 operations in the Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf, together with TAVKR "Kiev", RKR "Vice-Admiral Drozd", EM "Otlichnyy" and "Sovremennyy" - visited Aden, South Yemen - Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia (9.5 to 13.5.85) and Socrota Island, Yemen; 7.88 to 11.88 operations in the Atlantic Ocean, together with EM "Sovremennyy" - 28.8 to 26.9.88 tracked the NATO exercise "Northern Wedding-78"; 1.89 to 4.89 operations in the eastern Atlantic Ocean; 19.1.90 relegated to the reserve, while based at Murmansk; 12.4.90 decomissioned; 1994 sold to a company in India for scrapping

Krasnyy Kavkaz - 61 Kommunara - serial no. 1706 - laid down 25.11.64 - launched 9.2.66 - completed 25.9.67; attached to the 21st Anti-Submarine Warfare Brigade; 1967 and 1968 operations in the Mediterranean, mainly operating off the Egyptian coast; 1.72 to 8.72 operations in the Mediterranean - joint missile live fire exercise 5.72 together with RKR "Groznyy" and submarine "K-313"; 5.73 to 12.73 operations in the Mediterranean, together with EM "Soznatelnyy" and BPK "Otvazhnyy" - including tracking the USS "Guadalcanal" - 2.7 to 7.7.73 visited Marseille, France, together with RKR "Groznyy" and BPK "Provornyy" - 5.11 to 24.11.73 operated off the Syrian coast; 7.74 took part in the evacuation of Soviet nationals from Limasol, Cyprus - together with KR "Admiral Nakhimov" and landing ship "SDK-82"; 20.11 to 25.11.74 visited Latakiya, Syria; 10.3.81 to 19.7.84 repairs and modernization at the 61 Kommunara Yard, including replacing of the V-600 missiles with the new V-601 missile; 10.8 to 14.8.84 visited Varna, Bulgaria; 2.85 to 11.85 operations in the Mediterranean - visited Tunis, Tunisia (12.8 to 16.8.85); 1986 operations in the Atlantic Ocean, including visiting Havana, Cuba (20.10 to 24.10.86); 1987 operations in the Mediterranean, including visiting Tunis, Tunisia (17.11 to 21.11.87) - 13.10.87 suffered a fire onboard (3 fatalities); 1988 operations in the Mediterranean; 7.90 suffered another fire while docked at Sevastopol - again 3 fatalities - repaired at Sevmorzavod, Sevastopol; 9.93 took part in the evacuation of personnel from Sukhumi, Georgia; 12.93 peace keeping duties off Poti, Georgia; 1.8.95 relegated to the reserve; from 12.95 attached to the 11th Anti-Submarine Warfare Brigade; 1.5.98 decomissioned; early 1999 scrapped at Inkerman

Reshitelnyy - 61 Kommunara - serial no. 1707 - laid down 25.6.65 - launched 30.6.66 - completed 30.12.67; attached to the 21st Anti-Submarine Warfare Brigade; 1.4.68 to 11.68 operations in the Mediterranean - 1.6 to 31.6.68 operated off the Egyptian coast - 9.68 to 10.68 escorted PKR "Moskva" during tests; 12.68 to 8.69 operations in the Mediterranean - visited Varna, Bulgaria (9.8 to 12.8.69); 1971 operations in the Mediterranean - visited Latakiya, Syria (14.12 to 18.12.71); 10.73 to 5.74 operations in the Mediterranean - including prolonged tracking of the USS "Iwo Jima" task force, together with KR "Admiral Ushakov"; 6.10 to 9.10.78 visited Messina, Italy; 16.11 to 20.11.78 visited Istanbul, Turkey; 1978 to 1984 mainly based in Poti, acting as a training vessel for Indian sailors (India had bought five Project 61ME destroyers); 1.11.89 relegated to the reserve, based at Sevastopol; 5.97 decomissioned; late 1998 sold to a Turkish company for scrapping

Smyshlenyy - 61 Kommunara - serial no. 1708 - laid down 15.8.65 - launched 22.10.66 - completed 27.9.68; attached to the 120th Missile Ship Brigade; 4.70 to 5.70 took part in the "Okean-70" exercise, together with RKR "Sevastopol" and KR "Murmansk"; 6.71 to 12.71 operations in the Atlantic Ocean - visited Havana, Cuba (31.10 to 9.11.71); 1972 operations in the Atlantic Ocean - 10.9 to 28.9.72 visited Conakry, Guinea; 1975 to 1976 repairs and modernization to Project 61M at the 61 Kommunara Yard; 2.1 to 4.7.76 operations in the Mediterranean and the Central Atlantic Ocean, together with RKR "Vice-Admiral Drozd" - visited Annaba, Algeria - Alexandria, Egypt and Tartus, Syria; 4.77 took part in the "Sever-77" exercise, together with BPK "Admiral Isakov" and tanker "G. Gasanov" - sailed to Lofoten and back, testing Meteorological condistions; 10.5 to 14.5.78 visited Bordeaux, France, together with KR "Murmansk"; 15.12.78 to 27.3.79 operations in the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean, together with TAVKR "Kiev" and BPK "Admiral Yumashev"; 9.78 to 12.78 operations in the Atlantic Ocean, Barents Sea and Norwegian Sea - tracking the NATO exercise "Northern Wedding-78"; 19.9 to 11.11.79 operations in the Northern Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean; 7.81 took part in the "Sever-81" exercise, together with TAVKR "Kiev", BPK "Konshtadt" and "Admiral Isakov"; 1981 to 1984 repairs and modernization at KHMOLZ, Kronshtadt; 2.86 to 6.86 operations in the Mediterranean, together with BPK "Marshal Vasilevskiy", "Admiral Makarov", EM "Otlichnyy" and SKR "Rezvyy"; 2.87 to 9.87 operations in the Atlantic Ocean, and the Mediterranean - visited Conakry, Guinea (26.2.87) and Sao Tome, Sao Tome and Principe (25.5 to 30.5.87); 4.10.88 to 4.4.89 operations in the eastern Atlantic Ocean; 22.2.93 decomissioned; 12.94 sold to a company in India for scrapping

Strogiy - 61 Kommunara - serial no. 1709 - laid down 22.2.66 - launched 29.4.67 - completed 24.12.68; 11.69 to 2.70 sailed from Sevastopol to Vladivostok, around Africa and through the Indian Ocean - on the way visited Berbera, Somalia - Mogadishu, Somalia - Kismayu, Somalia (5.12 to 7.12.69) - attached to the 201st Anti-Submarine Warfare Brigade; 20.12.71 to 15.6.72 operations in the Indian Ocean - visited Bombay, India - Umm-Kasr, Iraq - Port Louis, Mauritius - Colombo, Sri Lanka - Aden, South Yemen - Massaua, Ethiopia (3.2 to 8.2.72) and was visited by Emperor Haile Selassie - visited Mogadishu, Somalia (10.2 to 19.2.72), together with RKR "Varyag", and was visited by Minister of Defence Grechko; 1972 to 1974 took part in several anti-submarine exercises in local waters; 8.8.74 to 9.8.74 took part in a night time mine-laying exercise, together with EM "Vyzyvayushchiy" and BPK "Steregushchiy"; 18.11.74 to 6.6.76 repairs and modernization at the Dalzavod Yard, including replacing of the V-600 missiles with the new V-601 missile; 14.4 to 14.5.77 took part in the exercise "Piton" in the Philippine Sea, together with BPK "Admiral Oktyabrskiy", "Gordyy", "Gnevnyy" and SKR "Razyashschiy"; 2.12.77 to 16.10.78 operations in the Indian Ocean - visited Victoria, Seychelles (2.6 to 7.6.78) and Hai Phong, Vietnam (5.11 to 10.11.78); 2.79 to 4.79 operations in the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean, during the Vietnamese/Chinese conflict; 5.11 to 9.11.79 visited Hai Phong, Vietnam, together with RKR "Admiral Fokin" and EM "Vozbuzhdennyy"; 11.84 to 3.85 operations in the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean - arrived in Sevastopol; from 1.3.85 attached to the 183rd Anti-Submarine Warfare Brigade; 4.85 to 5.85 repairs at Sevmorzavod, Sevastopol; 6.85 - 7.85 returned to to Far East and visited Maputo, Mozambique (22.6 to 26.6.85); 16.7.86 during a command staff exercise, collided with BPK "Nikolayev" in the La Perouse Strait - repaired at Dalzavod, Vladivostok; 1.11.90 relegated to the reserve; 30.6.93 decomissioned; 12.94 sold to a company in India for scrapping; 1995 sank off Singapore in a storm, while being towed to Bombay, India

Smetlivyy - 61 Kommunara - serial no. 1710 - laid down 15.7.66 - launched 26.8.67 - completed 25.9.69; attached to the 11th Anti-Submarine Warfare Brigade; 1971 operations in the Mediterranean; 1972 operations in the Mediterranean - visited Casablanca, Morocco 4.72, together with a SKR (Project 159) and a submarine (Project 641); 2.73 to 12.73 operations in the Mediterranean - visited Latakiya, Syria (6.3 to 12.3.73) together with KR "Admiral Ushakov" - visited Split, Yugoslavia (26.9 to 1.10.73) together with BPK "Nikolayev" and "Skoryy" - 4.10 to 26.11.73 operated mainly in support of Egypt, and tracked the USS "Franklin D. Roosevelt" together with KR "Murmansk"; 9.8 to 13.8.74 visited Varna, Bulgaria; 14.8 to 14.10.74 together with PKR "Leningrad", BPK "Skoryy" and tanker "Boris Chilikin" took part in mine clearing operations in the Suez-Canal using Ka-25BSh and Mi-8BT helicopters; 6.12.74 returned to Sevastopol, after sailing around Africa, visiting Berbera, Somalia (27.9 to 3.10.74), Port Louis, Mauritius (14.10 to 19.10.74), Malabo, Equatorial Guinea (5.11 to 10.11.74) and Dakar, Senegal (19.11 to 23.11.74); 1976 to 1977 repairs and modernization at the Sevmorzavod Yard, including replacing of the V-600 missiles with the new V-601 missile; 1978 to 1986 took part in seven operational tours in the Mediterranean - no details are known, execept for at visit to Tunis, Tunisia (26.6 to 1.7.80); 19.2.87 to 3.88 repairs and modernization to Project 01090 at Sevmorzavod, Sevastopol; 1.6.92 reclassified as a SKR; 3.2003 to 5.2003 operations in the Arabian Sea and the Indian Ocean, together with RKR "Moskva"; 8.2003 visited Bombay, India; 1.9 to 30.9.2004 operations in the Mediterranean, together with RKR "Moskva", SKR "Pytlivyy", BDK "Azov", tanker "Ivan Bubnov" and tug "SB-36" - ensured the visit of President Putin to Israel, and took part in a joint Russian/Italian exercise

Smelyy - 61 Kommunara - serial no. 1711 - laid down 15.11.66 - launched 6.2.68 - completed 27.12.68; attached to the 11th Anti-Submarine Warfare Brigade; 1970 operations in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic Ocean; 11.12.72 to 30.12.74 repairs and modernized to Project 61MP at the Sevmorzavod Yard; 6.76 to 11.76 operations in the Mediterranean - visited Messina, Italy (17.9 to 22.9.76); 9.77 to 6.79 conducted four operational tours in the Mediterranean - no details are known; 1978 took part in a Warzaw Pact exercise, together with BPK "Oschakov", EM "Blagorodnyy" and SKR "Bezzavetnyy"; 8.4 to 13.4.78 visited Algiers, Algeria, together with PKR "Moskva"; 13.4 to 18.4.79 visited Rieka, Yugoslavia; 17.12.82 to 30.1.85 repairs and modernization at KHMOLZ, Kronshtadt; from 30.1.85 attached to the 128th Missile Ship Brigade; autumn 1987 arrived in Gdynia, in preparation for lease to the Polish Navy; 19.1.88 leased by the Polish Navy and renamed Warszawa; the following port visits are known while in Polish service: London, England (9.5 to 12.5.89) - Stockholm, Sweden - Warnemünde, Germany - Rostock, Germany - Kiel, Germany (1992); decomissioned 2002

Krasnyy Krym - 61 Kommunara - serial no. 1712 - laid down 23.2.68 - launched 28.2.69 - completed 15.10.70; attached to the 11th Anti-Submarine Warfare Brigade; 1.5.71 to 19.5.71 operated off the Egyptian coast; 12.71 to 2.72 operations in the Indian Ocean (the first time for a Black Sea Fleet ship) - 1.2 to 29.2.72 operated off the Egyptian coast; 7.73 to 12.73 operations in the Mediterranean, including tracking of the USS "John F. Kennedy" battlegroup, together with RKR "Admiral Golovko" and EM "Nakhodchivyy"; 5.74 participated in the celebrations when Novorossiysk became a Hero City of the Soviet Union - ship was visited by General Secretary Brezhnev; 3.7 to 7.7.75 visited Toulon, France, together with KR "Zhdanov"; 1.76 to 10.78 conducted three operational tours in the Mediterranean - visited Split, Yugoslavia (14.10 to 19.10.76) and Constanza, Romania (5.8 to 9.8.77); 6.10.78 to 28.8.83 repairs and modernization at the Sevmorzavod Yard, including replacing of the V-600 missiles with the new V-601 missile; 18.8 to 6.11.84 took part in mine clearing operations in the Red Sea, off Yemen and Ethiopia, together with PKR "Leningrad" and support vessels - visited Aden, South Yemen (8.9 to 28.9.84); 12.8 to 16.8.85 visited Tunis, Tunisia; 11.6 to 14.6.90 visited Taranto, Italy; 1.6.92 reclassified as a SKR; 24.6.93 decomissioned; 10.95 sold to a company in India for scrapping; 4.96 to 5.96 towed to India

Sposobnyy - 61 Kommunara - serial no. 1713 - laid down 10.3.69 - launched 11.4.70 - completed 25.9.71; 15.2 to 26.8.72 sailed from Sevastopol to Vladivostok - around Africa, and participated in operations in the Indian Ocean - attached to the 201st Anti-Submarine Warfare Brigade; 20.12 to 24.12.73 visited Port Louis, Mauritius, together with KR "Admiral Senyavin" and a Project 641 submarine; 9.2 to 15.2.74 visited Bombay, India, together with KR "Admiral Senyavin"; 5.76 to 10.76 operations in the Pacific Ocean - visited Vancouver, Canada (25.8 to 30.8.76), together with BPK "Gnevnyy"; 1982 conducted two operational tours in the Japanese Sea and the South China Sea; 4.83 to 9.83 operations in the Indian Ocean, together with SKR "Grozyashschiy" and tanker "Pechenga" - visited Colombo, Sri Lanka (9.6 to 13.6.83); 6.87 to 7.87 sailed from Vladivostok to Sevastopol; 30.7.87 began repairs and modernization to Project 01091 at Sevmorzavod, Sevastopol - all work stopped 12.91 due to the politcal situation, and the ship was decomissioned; from 1989 attached to the 193rd Anti-Submarine Warfare Brigade, while still under modernization in Sevastopol; from 29.10.92 attached to the 21st Anti-Submarine Warfare Brigade; 6.1.93 became the property of the Sevmorzavod Yard; late 1994 sold to a company in India for scrapping; early 1995 towed to India

Skoryy - 61 Kommunara - serial no. 1714 - laid down 20.4.70 - launched 26.2.71 - completed 23.9.72; attached to the 150th Missile Ship Brigade; 6.73 to 11.73 operation in the Mediterranean (5.10 to 24.10.73 mainly in Egyptian waters) - visited Split, Yugoslavia (26.9 to 1.10.73), together with BPK "Nikolayev" and "Smetlivyy"; 5.74 to 10.74 operations in the Mediterranean - 23.7 to 14.10.74 mainly operated in Egyptian waters, and together with PKR "Leningrad", BPK "Smetlivyy" and tanker "Boris Chilikin" took part in mine clearing operations in the Suez-Canal using Ka-25BSh and Mi-8BT helicopters - 14.10 to 19.10.74 visited Port Louis, Mauritius - 19.11 to 23.11.74 visited Dakar, Senegal; 1975 operations in the Mediterranean - visited Split, Yugoslavia (12.5 to 17.5.75); 20.10 to 25.10.78 visited Piraeus, Greece; 30.7.82 to 16.9.85 repairs and modernization at the Sevmorzavod Yard, including replacing of the V-600 missiles with the new V-601 missile; 12.91 together with SKR "Bezukorinennyy" escorted TAVKR "Admiral Kuznetsov" from Sevastopol to the Gibraltar straits; 21.8.92 suffered a fire in the engine room - repaired; from 12.94 attached to the 21st Anti-Submarine Warfare Brigade; 4.95 during local exercise, the engines failed - repaired; 8.95 disarmed, in perparation for repairs and modernization - repairs cancelled, and relegated to the reserve; from 12.95 attached to the 11th Anti-Submarine Warfare Brigade; 22.11.97 decomissioned; mid-1998 transferred to Inkerman for scrapping

Sderzhannyy - 61 Kommunara - serial no. 1715 - laid down 10.3.71 - launched 29.2.72 - completed 30.12.73; completed as Project 61M - attached to the 150th Missile Ship Brigade; 3.74 to 8.74 operations in the Mediterranean; 1.76 to 7.76 operations in the Mediterranean - visited Tripoli, Libya (12.5 to 17.5.76); 2.83 to 8.83 operations in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic Ocean - 14.5 to 7.6.83 escorted TAVKR "Novorossiysk" from Sevastopol to the North Sea; 31.10.85 to 12.10.87 repairs and modernization at 61 Kommunara Yard and the Sevmorzavod Yard; 1994 and 1995 took part in peacekeeping operations off the Abkhazian coast; from 12.94 attached to the 21st Anti-Submarine Warfare Brigade; from 12.95 attached to the 11th Anti-Submarine Warfare Brigade; 27.10.2001 decomissioned; 12.2001 sold to a company in Turkey for scrapping; 4.2002 to 5.2002 towed to Aliaga, Turkey

Nadezhnyy - 61 Kommunara - serial no. 2201 - laid down 11.9.76 - launched 17.9.77 - completed 30.11.79; Project 61ME; 4.5.80 transferred to the Indian Navy as "Rajput"

Gubitelnyy - 61 Kommunara - serial no. 2202 - laid down 29.11.76 - launched 27.9.78 - completed 30.9.81; Project 61ME; 10.2.82 transferred to the Indian Navy as "Rana" [until 16.5.77 the planned Soviet name was "Pytlivyy"]

Lovkiy - 61 Kommunara - serial no. 2203 - laid down 29.6.77 - launched 16.6.79 - completed 20.7.83; Project 61ME; 24.11.83 transferred to the Indian Navy as "Ranjit" [until 16.5.77 the planned Soviet name was "Porazhayushyy"]

Tverdyy - 61 Kommunara - serial no. 2204 - laid down 24.10.81 - launched 12.3.83 - completed 30.12.85; Project 61ME; 1986 transferred to the Indian Navy as "Ranvir"

Tolkovyy - 61 Kommunara - serial no. 2205 - laid down 19.3.82 - launched 1.2.86 - completed 15.10.87; Project 61ME; 1988 transferred to the Indian Navy as "Ranjivey"

SKR-31 - A.A. Zhdanov - serial no. 751 - laid down 9.5.62 - launched 31.5.63 - completed 31.12.64; 1.10.64 renamed Ognevoy; attached to the 128th Missile Ship Brigade; 1965 to 1971 mainly training in the Baltic, with occasionally operational tours in the Mediterranean; 5.2 to 12.10.71 repairs and modernization to Project 61MP at KHMOLZ, Kronshtadt; 11.71 transferred to the Northern Fleet - attached to the 120th Missile Ship Brigade; 4.75 took part in the "Okean-75" exercise; 1.6 to 1.12.75 operations in the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean, together with RKR "Admiral Zozulya" and BPK "Admiral Isakov" - visited Algeria, Morocco, Nigeria and Tunisia; 12.78 to 3.79 operations in the Mediterranean, together with TAVKR "Kiev", "Minsk", BPK "Admiral Makarov", "Marshal Timoshenko" and "Smyshlenyy" - and then took part in the Razbeg-79 exercise (5.4 to 12.4.79); 1.2.80 to 3.12.82 repairs and modernization at KHMOLZ, Kronshtadt (Angara radars replaced by Angara-A and Klever); 23.6.83 to 15.3.84 operations in the Mediterranean, together with BPK "Soobrazitelnyy" and SKR "Leningradskiy Komsomolets" - 8.83 to 11.83 took part in prolonged tracking of the USS "Dwight D. Eisenhower" and USS "Independence"; 1.84 to 5.84 operations in the Mediterranean - 31.1.84 missile shootings (SAM/SSM) off Crete, together with "Komsomolets Ukrainy", and then to 3.84 performed escort duties for TARKR "Kirov"; 1985 operations in the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean - visited Freetown, Sierra Leone (2.85); 25.4.89 decomissioned; 1991 sold to a company in Turkey for scrapping

Obraztsovyy - A.A. Zhdanov - serial no. 752 - laid down 29.7.63 - launched 23.2.64 - completed 29.9.65; attached to the 128th Missile Ship Brigade; 21.6 to 26.6.67 visited Gdynia, Poland; 3.10 to 9.10.69 visited Rostock and Warnemünde, East Germany; 4.70 to 8.70 operations in the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean, together with KR "Oktyabrskoye Revolutsiya" and EM "Speshnyy" - took part in the Okean-70 exercise - visited Cherbourg, and 29.6 to 10.7.70 operated off the Egyptian coast; 3.71 to 7.71 operations in the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean, together with KR "Oktyabrskoye Revolutsiya", EM "Nastoychivyy" and "Speshnyy" - late May 1971 visited Freetown, Sierra Leone - operated out of Conakry, Guinea, for an extended period; 7.72 to 8.72 operations in the Mediterranean, together with EM "Svetlyy"; 8.9.72 to 15.3.73 repairs and modernization at KHMOLZ, Kronshtadt; 9.73 to 4.74 operations in the Mediterranean, together with "Svetlyy" and "Speshnyy"; 24.6 to 29.6.74 visited Helsinki, Finland; 5.10 to 9.10.74 visited Rostock, East Germany; 28.5 to 1.6.76 visited Portsmouth, England; 13.4.77 to 10.11.79 repairs and modernization at the SRZ-29 in Liepaya, including replacing of the V-600 missiles with the new V-601 missile; 27.6 to 30.6.80 visited Gdynia, Poland; 22.9 to 11.10.80 operations in the Norwegian Sea; 10.6 to 5.10.81 operations in the North Sea; 26.10.82 to 6.6.83 operations in the eastern Atlantic Ocean; 25.8.88 began repairs and modernization at SRZ-29 in Liepaya - repairs stopped in late 12.91 due to lack of funding; decomissioned 30.6.93; 1995 scrapped

Odarennyy - A.A. Zhdanov - serial no. 753 - laid down 22.1.64 - launched 11.9.64 - completed 30.12.65; summer and autumn 1966 transferred to the Pacific Fleet, via the Arctic route (EON-66) - accepted into the Pacific Fleet 8.10.66 - attached to the 201st Anti-Submarine Warfare Brigade; 1.68 to 5.68 operations in the Indian Ocean; 3.70 to 5.70 took part in the Okean-70 exercise - escorted Project 675 submarine "K-3" during missile training launches off Sokrota Island; 1970 to 1976 several combat training tours in the Sea of Japan and Sea of Okhotsk; 9.76 to 4.77 operations in the Indian Ocean - visited Basra, Iraq (18.11 to 23.11.76), Bandar Abbas, Iran (1.12 to 4.12.76), Maputo, Mozambique (18.1 to 23.1.77) and Port Louis, Mauritius (10.3 to 14.3.77), together with RKR "Admiral Fokin"; 11.78 to 3.80 repairs and modernization at Dalzavod, Vladivostok (Angara radars replaced by Angara-A and Klever - V-600 missile replaced by the V-601 missile); 19.8.80 suffered a fire in the engine room (2 fatalities); 9.80 to 12.80 operations in the Indian Ocean, together with RKR "Vladivostok" - visited Cochin, India (17.10 to 21.10.80); 4.7.87 relegated to the reserve; from 1989 attached to the 193rd Anti-Submarine Warfare Brigade; 19.4.90 decomissioned; scrapped in India

Slavnyy - A.A. Zhdanov - serial no. 754 - laid down 26.7.64 - launched 24.4.65 - completed 30.9.66; attached to the 128th Missile Ship Brigade; 1966 to 1971 combat training in the Baltic; visited Rostock, East Germany (23.10 to 29.10.67) and (3.10 to 9.10.69) and Copenhagen, Denmark (17.8 to 22.8.71); 1972 operations in the Mediterranean - operated off Egyptian and Syrian coastlines 14.6 to 29.7.72; 6.12.73 to 4.12.75 repairs and modernization to Project 61MP at A.A. Zhdanov, Leningrad; 6.77 to 11.78 operations in the Central Atlantic and the Caribbean Sea, together with SKR "Bodryy" and "Silnyy", submarine "K-22", tanker "Olekma" and rescue ship "Aldan" - replenished at sea - took part in joint Soviet/Cubam exercises and visited Havana, Cuba (10.9 to 17.9.78); 7.9.85 to 13.3.86 operations in the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, together with SKR "Silnyy" - 12.10 to 15.10.85 visited Havana, Cuba; 18.7 to 23.7.87 visited Gdynia, Poland; 19.7 to 24.7.88 visited Szcecin, Poland; 15.12.89 relegated to the reserve - based at Baltiysk; 19.2.91 planned repairs to begin at SRZ-29 in Liepaya - cancelled due to lack of funds; 24.6.91 decomissioned; 31.12.91 sank at Baltiysk harbour; 1998 raised and scrapped

Steregushchiy - A.A. Zhdanov - serial no. 755 - laid down 26.7.64 - launched 20.2.66 - completed 21.12.66; attached to the 201st Anti-Submarine Warfare Brigade; 3.68 to 7.68 operations in the Indian Ocean - visited Madras, India (17.3 to 24.3.68), Bombay, India (3.4 to 6.4.68), Mogadisho, Somalia (17.4 to 24.4.68), Umm-Kasr, Iraq (11.5 to 19.5.68), Karachi, Pakistan (25.5 to 2.6.68), Bandar Avvas, Iran (5.6 to 9.6.68), Aden, South Yemen (6.68) and Colombo, Sri Lanka (6.7 to 11.7.68); 17.9 to 17.10.69 took part in exercise Volna in the Philippines Sea, together with EM "Burlivyy"; 1971 to 1972 repairs and modernization at Dalzavod, Vladivostok; 2.8 to 29.8.73 took part in the exercise Dozor (hunting US submarines); 1973 and 1974 took part in various ASW exercises;  8.8.74 to 9.8.74 took part in a night time mine-laying exercise, together with EM "Vyzyvayushchiy" and BPK "Strogiy"; 5.4 to 18.4.75 took part in the exercise Okean-75 in the Philippines Sea; 30.6 to 20.7.76 took part in the exercise Rezonans in the Philippines Sea, together with BPK "Marshal Voroshilov" and "Gordiy" (hunting US submarines); 31.12.78 relegated to the reserve (based at Sovetskaya Gavan) - from 1989 attached to the 193rd Anti-Submarine Warfare Brigade; 30.6.93 decomissioned; 11.94 sold to a company in India for scrapping; early 1995 towed to India