Project 1134

Kresta I class

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Ships:

Admiral Zozulya - A.A. Zhdanov - serial no. 791 - laid down 26.7.64 - launched 17.10.65 - completed 8.10.67; testing began 15.2.67; 7.11.67 took part in the naval parade off the Neva estuary, on the 50th anniversary of the October Revolution; 23.11.67 to 3.12.67 sailed from Baltiysk to Severomorsk, and from 18.1.68 became attached to the 120th Missile Ship Brigade; 6.68 to 7.68 took part in two exercises - "Sever-68" and "Arktika-68"; 10.68 first launch of the P-35 missile; 12.8 to 15.8.69 took part in the "Kolskiy Bereg" exercise; 22.8 to 14.10.69 took part in an endurance exercise "Zarya-2", and sailed from Severomorsk to Crete in the Mediterranean, and back; 1.12.69 to 30.6.70 operations in the Mediterranean, showing support of Egypt; from 4.70 took part in the "Okean-70" exercise - from 30.4.70 operated in the Northeastern Atlantic - 3.7 to 17.7.70 operated in the Mediterranean - 5.8 to 9.8.70 operating in the Barents Sea and the White Sea, including launches of the P-35 missile; 11.71 to 6.74 repairs and modernization at the A.A. Zhdanov Yard in Leningrad; 1.6 to 1.12.75 operations in the Mediterranean and the Central Atlantic, together with BPK "Admiral Isakov" - 31.7 to 4.8.75 visited Annaba, Algeria - 11.9.75 lost a Ka-25 helicopter which crashed - one dead; 10.4 to 2.11.77 operations in the Northern Atlantic and the Mediterranean - 11.10 to 18.10.77 visited Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia; late 1977 reclassified as a Missile Cruiser (RKR); 9.78 tracked the NATO exercise "Northern Wedding-78", together with BPK "Admiral Makarov" and "Smyshlenyy"; 31.3 to 8.4.84 took part in the "Atlantika-84" exercise; 22.4.85 to 5.92 repairs and modernization at KMOLZ, Kronshtadt (95th independent battalion of constructed and overhauled ships) - including installation of four AK-630M 30mm CIWS guns; 9.10.86 officially transferred to the Baltic Fleet; from 5.92 attached to the 12th Missile Ship Division, but due to an accident, the boilers were disabled (summer 95) - remained in harbour from this date; 24.9.94 decomissioned, and later scrapped

Vitse-Admiral Drozd - A.A. Zhdanov - serial no. 793 - laid down 26.10.65 - launched 18.11.66 - completed 27.12.68; from 5.5.69 attached to the 120th Missile Ship Brigade; 4.6 to 16.6.69 operations in the Northern Atlantic; 12.8 to 15.8.69 took part in the "Kolskiy Bereg" exercise, together with BPK "Gremyashchiy" and "Smyshlennyy"; 10.3.70 to 22.4.70 took part in the "Okean-70" exercise; 4.4.70 to 27.6.70 operated in the Norwegian Sea, Central Atlantic and the Caribbean Sea - 14.5 to 25.5.70 visited Cienfuegos, Cuba (and possibly Havana also); 13.1 to 28.4.71 operations in the Northern Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea and the Mediterranean - 9.2 to 25.2.71 visited Havana and Cienfuegos, Cuba - 13.4.71 tracked a foreign submarine northeast of Ireland, together with EM "Skromnyy" - also tracked a NATO task force off the Faroe Islands, and participated in the exercise "Orbita"; 14.12.71 to 23.3.72 operations in the Central Atlantic - visited Conakry, Gruina (6.1 to 21.1.72) - 17.2.72 passed the equator for the first time - 3.3 to 20.3.72 took part in the rescue operation for the submarine "K-19" in the Bay of Biscay; 3.5.72 visited by Soviet Navy commander Gorshkov; 3.9 to 3.10.72 operations along the Faroe Island-Iceland submarine barrier; 1.73 to 2.75 repairs and modernization at the A.A. Zhdanov Yard in Leningrad; 5.3.75 sailed from Liepaya to Severomorsk, together with BPK "Admiral Isachenkov" and "Smyshlennyy"; 2.1 to 4.7.76 operations in the Central Atlantic and Mediterranean, together with BPK "Smyshlennyy" - took part in the "Krym-76" exercise, and visited Annaba, Algeria twice; 2.9 to 2.10.77 observed the NATO exercise "Strong Express"; late 1977 reclassified as a Missile Cruiser (RKR); 20.6.80 collides with submarine "K-508", and is slightly damaged on the keel; 1.81 - 3.84 repairs and modernization at KMOLZ, Kronshtadt (95th independent battalion of constructed and overhauled ships) - including installation of four AK-630M 30mm CIWS guns (arrived in Kronshtadt 8.1.81); 10.5.84 arrived back in Severomorsk; 15.1.85 to 4.6.85 operations in the Mediterranean, together with TAKR "Kiev", EM "Sovremennyy" and "Otlichnyy", BPK "Marshal Timoshenko" and "Stroynyy" - 9.5 to 13.5.85 visited Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia; 20.1 to 18.6.86 operations in the Mediterranean, together with EM "Otlichnyy", BPK "Ognevoy" and "Smyshlennyy" - 4.86 visits Tripoli and Tobruk in Libya; 1.7.90 decomissioned - the flag is taken down 2.6.91; sold 1992 to an Indian firm for scrapping, but sank 3.92 while in tow to India

Vladivostok - A.A. Zhdanov - serial no. 792 - laid down 24.12.64 - launched 1.8.67 - completed 11.9.69; 11.8.69 to 11.2.70 sailed from the Baltics to Vladivostok, via the Black Sea, together with BPK "Strogiy" and the landing ship "BDK-66" - conducted operations in the Indian Ocean along the way - 1.9 to 4.9.69 visited Lagos, Nigeria - 1.12 to 6.12.69 visited Berbera, Mogadishu and Chisimayu (Somalia) - 27.12 to 29.12.69 visited Aden, South Yemen, together with the tanker "Egorlyk"; from 2.70 attached to the 175th Missile Ship Brigade; 10.70 missile firings together with RKR "Varyag", oberved by the BPK "Strogiy"; 26.5.70 visited by the Bulgarian General Secretary Zhivkov; 31.5.70 visited by a Polish delegation; early 8.71 missile launches together with submarine "K-23"; 10.8 to 27.8.71 took part in an exercise, together with RKR "Admiral Fokin", BPK "Strogiy" and "Odarennyy, BRK "Upornyy", EM "Burlivyy", "Bezboyaznennyy", "SKR-4", "SKR-74", minesweepers "Sakhalinskiy Komsomolets", "MT-59" and "MT-750"; 26.8 to 3.10.71 operations in the Central and Northwestern Pacific, together with BRK "Upornyy", EM "Bezboyaznennyy", submarines "K-108", "B-8" and "B-135", PB "Ivan Vakhrameev" and the tanker "Zhitomir", investigating USN training areas and testing US defences along the US west coast; 13.12.71 to 6.3.72 operated in the Indian Ocean (during the Indian-Pakistan conflict), together with "KR "Dmitriy Pozharskiy", RKR "Varyag", BPK "Strogiy", EM "Veskiy" - purpose to ensure non-intervention by the US and Royal Navies; from 3.72 attached to the 201st Anti-Submarine Warfare Brigade in Zolotaya Rog; 4.72 open to the public in Vladivostok; 30.6.72 sailed with minister of defence Grechko, Soviet Navy commander Gorshkov, and other high officials from Vladivostok to Abraya Bay and back; 14.6.73 while returning from a missile training mission, collided with the science research vessel "Akademik Berg", which sank with 27 dead - "Vladivostok" took part in the rescue effort; late 1977 reclassified as a Missile Cruiser (RKR); 10.77 to 11.77 missile training in the Sea of Okhotsk; early 4.78 took part in an exercise, together with BPK "Sposobnyy", "Marshal Voroshilov", "Admiral Oktyabrskiy" and SKR "Razyashschiy" - the exercise was observed by General Secretary Brezhnev and Minister of Defence Ustinov onboard the cruiser "Admiral Senyavin"; 11.78 to 8.79 operations in the Indian Ocean - 9.3 to 14.3.79 visited Port Louis, Mauritius, together with "SKR-133" and the tanker "Akhtuba" - the sortie also included visits to Victoria, Seychelles - Maputo, Mozambique - Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam - Dakhlak, Eritrea - Aden, South Yemen was visited twice; 4.80 to 12.80 operations in the Indian Ocean - 9.8 to 15.8.80 visited Port Louis, Mauritius, together with the tanker "Akhtuba" - 16.8 to 25.8.80 visited Beira, Mozambique, together with "Akhtuba" and a submarine - 17.10 to 21.10.80 visited Cochin, India, together with BPK "Odarennyy" and the tanker "Pechenga"; 3.84 tracked the US carrier USS "Kityhawk" and directed the submarine "K-314" to it; 1987 operations in the South China Sea; 28.9.88 to 23.4.90 repairs and modernization at Dalzavod, Vladivostok - only 90% completed, due to lack of funds; from 1989 attached to the 173rd Missile Ship Brigade; decomissioned 19.4.90

Sevastopol - A.A. Zhdanov - serial no. 794 - laid down 8.6.66 - launched 28.4.67 - completed 25.9.69; accepted into the Northern Fleet 21.10.69 (120th Missile Ship Brigade); 10.3 to 22.4.70 took part in the "Okean-70" exercise; 22.7 to 14.12.71 operations in the Antlantic and the Mediterranean, together with BPK "Smyshlennyy", one or two submarines and a tanker - successful tracking of a US SSBN (George Washington class) in the Mediterranean - 31.10 to 9.11.71 visited Havana, Cuba; 10.10.72 to 8.4.73 operations in the Atlantic - 19.10 to 24.10.72 took part in two anti-submarine exercises ("Duet" and "Ladoga") in the Northeastern Atlantic and the Norwegian Sea, together with BPK "Admiral Nakhimov" and EM "Byvalyy" - 1.12.72 to 22.2.73 anti-submarine operations while temorarily based at Cienfuegos, Cuba - 29.3 to 2.4.73 visited Algiers, Algeria; 4.73 missile launches together with submarine "K-128"; 12.5 to 29.5.73 submarine hunting in the Northern Atlantic, together with BPK "Admiral Isakov" and "Admiral Makarov"; 12.75 to 3.80 repairs and modernization at SRZ-35 in Rosta; late 1977 reclassified as a Missile Cruiser (RKR); 19.10.80 transferred to the Pacific Fleet (175th Missile Ship Brigade); 7.81 sailed from Murmansk to Vladivostok, along the northern (arctic) route, arriving via Provideniya Bay and Petropavlovsk-Kamchatka; 1981 operations in the Indian Ocean, with visits to Victoria, Seychelles and Bombay, India; 12.82 to 6.83 repairs at Dalzavod, Vladivostok; 17.10 to 30.10.83 searched for remnants of the downed Korean Airlines Boeing 747, together with BPK "Petropavlovsk"; from 7.84 attached to the 173rd Missile Ship Brigade of the Kamchatka Flotilla - arriving 16.1.86 after repairs at Dalzavod, Vladivostok; 1986 to 1989 under repairs three times at SRZ-49 in Vilyuchinsk - 1988 damaged due to ice conditions; 15.12.89 decomissioned; suffered a fire in mid-1990; sold to an Indian firm for scrapping