Project 1123

Moskva class

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Ships:

Moskva - Chernomorskiy yard, Nikolayev - serial no. 701 - laid down 15.12.62 - launched 14.1.65 - completed 25.12.67; 21.4.67 to 3.11.67 tests in the Black Sea, including tests of all weapons (also the PLRK Vikhr-1 [SUW-N-1/FRAS-1]) and more than a 100 helicopter deck landings; accepted into the Black Sea Fleet 10.1.68 (21st Anti-Submarine Warfare Brigade); 9.68 to 10.68 operations in the Mediterranean, together with the BPK "Reshitelnyy"; 2.4.69 to 5.4.69 took part in the exercise "Vesna"; 20.4.69 to 16.5.69 operations in the Mediterranean; 17.8.69 to 14.9.69 operations in the Mediterranean; 3.1.70 to 29.4.70 operations in the Atlantic, including the Bay of Biscay, took part in the exercise "Okean-70" and visited Alexandria, Egypt (8.4 to 13.4.70); 31.12.70 to 8.8.71 modernized at Chernomorskiy yard, Nikolayev - including flight deck modifications; 24.3.72 returning to Sevastopol from the combat test range, touched the sea bottom near Cape Kosa Severnaya, and was repaired at Sevmorzavod, Sevastopol until 10.72; 18.11.72 to 22.11.72 took part in VTOL aircraft (Yak-36M) landing tests on the flight deck off Feodosiya; 1.3.73 to 22.5.73 operations in the Mediterranean, as a show of support to Egypt, and visited Alexandria, Egypt (26.4 to 29.4.73); 24.4.74 to 30.6.74 operations in the Mediterranean, including a visit to Rieka, Yugoslavia (5.6 to 10.6.74); 2.2.75 while in Sevastopol harbour, a fire started due to an electrical shortcut, which took seven hours to extinguish, causing heavy damage - 29 casaulties, including three dead, due to carbon monoxide poisoning; 19.2.75 to 30.10.76 repaired at Sevmorzavod, Sevastopol; 21.11.77 to 30.6.78 operations in the Mediterranean, as flagship of the 5th Operational Squadron - visited Algiers, Algeria (8.4. to 13.4.78) together with the BPK "Smelyy" (Project 61MR); 25.8.79 to 3.3.80 operations in the Mediterranean, including a visit to Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia (27.9 to 5.10.79); 4.6.80 damage to the sonar, due to a navigational hazard - repaired at Sevmorzavod, Sevastopol; 5.3.81 to 6.8.81 operations in the Mediterranean, as flagship of the 5th Operational Squadron, including a visit to Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia (26.5 to 4.6.81); 25.2.82 to 4.8.82 operations in the Mediterranean and Central Atlantic, including visits to Rieka, Yugoslavia (12.4 to 19.4.82), Luanda, Angola (12.6 to 18.6.82) and Lagos, Nigeria (25.6 to 2.7.82); 1.10.82 to 25.12.89 repair and modernization at Sevmorzavod, Sevastopol - training in the Black Sea 8.89 and a visit to Varna, Bulgaria (10.8 to 11.8.89); 14.10.91 to 2.12.91 operations in the Mediterranean, as flagship of the 5th Operational Squadron, including a visit to Tartus, Syria (20.11 to 25.11.91); remained in harbour from 1994, and 11.96 was renamed PKZ-108; 7.11.96 decomissioned; 27.5.98 towed to India fro scrapping by the Northern Fleet tug "Stakhanovets".

Leningrad - Chernomorskiy yard, Nikolayev - serial no. 702 - laid down 15.1.65 - launched 31.7.66 - completed 2.6.69; accepted into the Black Sea Fleet 9.7.69 (21st Anti-Submarine Warfare Brigade); 20.3.70 to 5.6.70 operations in the Mediterranean - took part in the "Okean-70" exercise, together with sistership "Moskva" - 10.4.70 to 12.4.70 together with BPK "Komsomolets Ukrainy" and "Otvazhnyy" attempted to rescue the submarine "K-8" (November class) in the Bay of Biscay, which eventually sank 12.4.70 - after the Okean-70 exercise, visited Severomorsk, Murmansk Oblast (19.4.70), together with BPK "Otvazhnyy"; 20.12.70 to 7.5.71 operations in the Mediterranean, and took part in the exercise "Yug-71" (21.5 to 31.5.71); 4.8.71 General Secretary Brezhnev and five Warzaw Pact leaders visited the ship, and sailed with the ship off the Crimean coast; from 1.72 operations in the Mediterranean, took part in the exercise "Vympel" (9.1 to 13.1.72), and visited Alexandria, Egypt (16.1 to 21.1.72) - 24.2 to 31.3.72 took part in rescue efforts in the Atlantic for the submarine "K-19" (Hotel class), after a fire had broken out - 31.3.72 arrived in Severomorsk, Murmansk Oblast, together with the damaged submarine "K-19" - 31.3.72 to 19.4.72 repaired there after storm damage to the RBU-6000 ASW system, and returned to Sevastopol from 20.4.72 to 6.5.72; 4.8.74 to 14.10.74 together with BPK "Smetlivyy", "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); 24.6.75 to 10.11.75 operations in the Mediterranean, including visits to Alexandria, Egypt (4.8 to 7.8.75) and Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia (30.10 to 5.11.75); 30.5.76 to 1.12.76 operations in the Mediterranean, including a visit to Split, Yugoslavia (14.10 to 19.10.76); 10.4.77 to 18.8.78 repair/modernization at Chernomorskiy yard, Nikolayev; 1.7.79 to 31.8.79 operations in the Mediterranean; 28.2.80 to 26.8.80 operations in the Mediterranean and Atlantic, including a visit to Leningrad, Leningrad Oblast (14.6 to 6.7.80); 1.8.81 to 5.3.82 took part in the exercise "Zapad-81" in the Baltics (15.8 to 16.9.81), and from 16.11.81 took part in operations in the Mediterranean, together with BPK "Bezukoriznennyy", including a visit to Al Jazair, Algeria; 22.2.84 to 16.6.84 operations in the Atlantic, together with BPK "Udaloy" and tanker "Zolotoy Rog" - visited Havana, Cuba (26.3 to 30.3.84), and took part in the joint Soviet/Cuban ASW exercise "Zaslon-84" (27.5 to 2.6.84) in the Gulf of Mexico; 18.8.84 to 6.11.84 took part in mine clearing operations off Yemen and Ethiopia, together with BPK "Krasnyy Krym" and support vessels - visited Aden, South Yemen (8.9 to 28.9.84); 5.8.85 to 9.9.85 repair and modernization at Sevmorzavod, Sevastopol; 25.12.85 to 25.8.87 repair and modernization at Chernomorskiy yard, Nikolayev; 26.11.88 to 15.6.89 operations in the Mediterranean; 15.3.90 to 22.6.90 operations in the Mediterranean; planned repairs was to begin in mid-1991, but was cancelled due to lack of funding; 24.6.91 decomissioned; disarmed and moored at Sevastopol; 2nd half of 1995 towed to Bombay, India for scrapping.