Project 1134A
Kresta II class
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Ships:
Kronshtadt - A.A. Zhdanov - serial no. 721 - laid down 30.11.66 - launched 10.2.68 - completed 29.12.69; from 9.3.70 attached to the 120th Missile Ship Brigade (Northern Fleet); 1.7 to 20.7.70 to Sevastopol, for testing the missile systems (Metel and Shtorm-M); 15.5.71 to 22.7.71 returned to Severomorsk, with operations in the Mediterranean along the way; 17.9 to 13.10.71 observing and tracking the NATO exercise "Iron Knight"; 28.2 to 2.4.72 took part in rescue operations for the submarine "K-19" in the North Atlantic, together with PKR "Leningrad", KRL "Aleksandr Nevskiy", BPK "Vitse-Admiral Drozd", PBPL "Magomet Gadzhiev", "SB-38" and rescue ship "Karpaty"; 11.5 to 31.5.73 took part in the exercise "Laguna" (search of submarines in the Northern Atlantic), together with "Admiral Nakhimov"; 22.6.73 first SS-N-14 (Metel) launch in the Northern Fleet area; 10.9 to 30.9.74 operations in the Northern Atlantic; 16.4 to 24.4.75 took part in the "Okean-75" exercise; 16.6.75 collided with the BPK "Smyshlennyy" and was damaged; 12.7 to 19.7.75 sailed to Kronshtadt; 8.8.75 to 9.1.80 repairs and modernization at KMOLZ, Kronshtadt (95th Battalion of Constructed and Overhauled Ships) - new fire control system "Vympel-A" installed; 5.80 back to Severomorsk - arrived 21.5.80 (120th Missile Ship Brigade); 7.81 took part in the "Sever-81" exercise in the Barents Sea and Norwegian Sea, togetner with TARKR "Kirov", BPK "Admiral Isakov" and "Smyshlennyy"; 12.2.82 transferred to the 170th Anti-Submarine Warfare Brigade; 2.82 took part in rescue operations for the "K-123" submarine, together with TAVKR "Kiev", BPK "Marshal Timoshenko" and the rescue vessel "Altay", but "Kronshtadt" had to return early due to engine trouble; 3.83 to 5.82 repairs at SRZ-35 in Rosta; 30.12.82 the fire control system "Grom-M" was accidentally damaged, which also happended in 5.84 (repaired at SRZ-35 Rosta); 2.9 to 13.10.84 operations along the Faroe Island-Iceland submarine barrier; 1.11.85 to 6.86 repairs at SRZ-35 in Rosta; 24.3 to 28.3.87 took part in a command staff exercise, together with TARKR "Kirov", RKR "Vitse-Admiral Drozd", "Marshal Ustinov", BPK "Admiral Nakhimov", "Admiral Makarov", "Admiral Yumashev" and "Soobrazitelnyy", EM "Otlichnyy", "Otchayannyy" and "Sovremennyy"; 24.6.91 decomissioned; 1993 sold to an Indian firm for scrap
Admiral Isakov - A.A. Zhdanov - serial no. 722 - laid down 15.1.68 - launched 22.11.68 - completed 28.12.70; 9.9.70 to 11.12.70 tests in the Baltic; 4.71 from Kronshtadt to Severomorsk, arriving 22.4.71 (19.4.71 suffered a boiler malfunction) - attached to the 120th Missile Ship Brigade; 11.8 to 21.9.71 took part tracking operations againt the US Navy in the Barents Sea and Norwegian Sea; 18.12.71 to 24.6.72 operations in the Mediterranean - including repairs at Sevastopol (5.3 to 28.3.72) and a visit to Annaba, Algeria (12.2 to 17.2.72) and showing support to Egypt - on the return voyage again suffered a boiler failure (13.6.72 in the Norwegian Sea); 22.3 to 24.11.73 operations in the Atlantic - 12.5 to 29.5.73 took part in the exercise "Laguna" (search of submarines in the Northern Atlantic), together with RKR "Sevastopol" and BPK "Admiral Makarov" - 4.8 to 9.8.73 visited Havana, Cuba, together with BPK "Derzkiy"; 16.4 to 24.4.75 took part in the exercise "Okean-75"; 1.6 to 1.12.75 operations in the Central Atlantic and the Mediterranean, together with RKR "Admiral Zozulya" and BPK "Ognevoi" - 31.7 to 4.8.75 visited Annaba, Algeria; 8.76 to 10.76 escorted TAVKR "Kiev" during tests of its main missile systems off Kolguyev Island; 4.77 took part in the "Sever-77" exercise - sailed with BPK "Smyshlennyy" and tanker "Genrikh Gasanov" to Lofoten and back; 6.77 to 4.80 repairs and modernization at SRZ-35 in Rosta - new fire control system "Vympel-A" installed; 3.81 to 5.81 operations in the Barents Sea and Norwegian sea - 27.5.81 collided with "HMS Glasgow"; 7.81 took part in the "Sever-81" exercise, together with TARKR "Kirov" and BPK "Kronshtadt", "Smyshlennyy" and "Skroynyy"; from 12.2.82 attached to the 170th Anti-Submarine Warfare Brigade; 27.7. to 2.10.82 operations in the Central Atlantic and the Mediterranean, together with TAVKR "Kiev" - two training exercises in the Greeland Sea: "Natyag" (1.8 to 3.8.82) and "Atoll" (6.8 to 8.8.82) - took part in exercise "Shschit-82" (25.9 to 1.10.82); 10.82 to 11.82 repairs at SRZ-13 in Sevastopol; 2.6 to 6.12.82 visited Havana, Cuba, and 7.12 to 10.12.82 Cienfuegos, Cuba, both visits together with SKR "Revnyy", tanker "Genrikh Gasanov" and a Project 641B submarine; 10.12.82 to 21.2.83 operations in the Northern Atlantic, and finally arrived back at Severomorsk 21.2.83 (since 27.7.82); 10.83 escorted TAVKR "Novorossiysk" (on it's way to the Pacific) from Severomorsk to an area off Gibraltar, together with EM "Otchayannyy" and BPK "Udaloy"; 31.3 to 8.4.84 took part in the "Atlantika-84" exercise; 9.10.86 to 27.8.90 repairs and modernization at SRZ-35 in Rosta - new URK-5 Rastrub-B (SS-N-14B) replaces the old URPK-4 Metel (SS-N-14) - satellite communication complex R-790 "Tsunami-BM" and ADK-3M Sluz automated launch system added; from 1.10.91 attached to the 44th Anti-Submarine Warfare Division; 30.6.93 decomissioned; 7.94 sold to a firm in India for scrapping, but sank in tow to India
Admiral Nakhimov - A.A. Zhdanov - serial no. 723 - laid down 15.1.68 - launched 15.4.69 - completed 29.11.71; from 13.12.71 attached to the 170th Anti-Submarine Warfare Brigade; 6.72 from Konshtadt to Severomorsk, arriving 24.6.72; 10.10.72 to 8.4.73 operations in the Central Atlantic and Mediterranean, together with RKR "Sevastopol" and BPK "Byvalyy" - 19.10 to 24.10.72 took part in two exercises; "Ladoga" and "Duet" (submarine hunting in the Northeastern Atlantic and the Norwegian Sea) - then sailed to the Mediterranean - while anchored off the Bay of Sallum, Egypt, one sailor defected from the ship, and the cruiser was ordered back to Severomorsk, where the captain and the political officer both were reassigned; 7.2.73 visited by the Commander of the Soviet Navy Gorshkov; 11.5 to 31.5.73 took part in the exercise "Laguna" (search of submarines in the Northern Atlantic), together with "Kronshtadt"; 12.4.74 visited by Marshal Moskalenko; 28.6 to 30.11.74 operations in the Mediterranean and the Central Atlantic - 7.74 evacuated Soviet citizen from Limasol, Cyprus during the Turkish invasion, together with BPK "Krasnyy Kavkaz", landing ship "SDK-82" and the motor ship "Bashkirya" - distant cover was provided by the KRU "Zhdanov", BPK "Admiral Makarov", EM "Plamennyy", SKR "Kunitsa", minesweeper "Kontr-Admiral Pershin", tanker "Groznyy" and the RFS "Lama" - visited Havana,Cuba (24.9 to 29.9.74); 16.4 to 24.4.75 took part in the exercise "Okean-75" together with BPK "Admiral Makarov"; 8.75 to 11.75 operations in the Mediterranean and the Central Atlantic - including tracking the US carrier USS "Nimitz" (17.8 to 6.9.75); 11.4 to 9.10.77 operations in the Mediterranean and the Central Atlantic - took part in the "Sever-77" exercise together with RKR "Admiral Zozulya" and "Vitse-Admiral Drozd", and the air defence exercise "Estafeta-77" - visited Conakry, Guinea and Luanda, Angola; 23.7 to 10.10.79 operations in the Mediterranean and the Central Atlantic; 24.2.81 to 8.5.82 repairs and modernization at KMOLZ, Kronshtadt (95th Battalion of Constructed and Overhauled Ships) - new fire control system "Vympel-A" and ADK-3M automatic launch system installed; 6.82 sailed from Kronshtadt to Severomorsk - arriving 4.6.82; 26.5 to 22.12.83 operations in the Central and Southern Atlantic, with temporarily basing at Luanda, Angola (4.7 to 13.11.83 - flagship of the 30th Operational Brigade) - from 18.6.83 stationed off Conakry, Guinea, for two weeks; 31.3 to 8.4.84 took part in the "Atlantika-84" exercise; 8.85 escorted TARKR "Frunze" (on it's way to the Pacific) from Severomorsk to an area near Cape Finisterre, together with EM "Osmotritelnyy" and BPK "Admiral Spiridonov"; 14.2.86 collided with the "K-255" submarine - repaired at SRZ-35 in Rosta; 24.3 to 28.3.87 took part in a command staff exercise, together with TARKR "Kirov", RKR "Vitse-Admiral Drozd", "Marshal Ustinov", BPK "Admiral Makarov, "Admiral Yumashev" and "Soobrazitelnyy", EM "Otlichnyy", "Otchayannyy" and "Sovremennyy"; 1.3.89 began repairs and modernization at SRZ-35 in Rosta - not completed, due to lack of funds; 31.1.91 relegated to the reserve; 4.11.91 decomissioned; 1993 sold to a firm in India for scrapping
Admiral Makarov - A.A. Zhdanov - serial no. 724 - laid down 23.2.69 - launched 22.1.70 - completed 25.10.72; 9.8 to 20.10.72 tests in the Baltic; from 22.1.73 attached to the 170th Anti-Submarine Warfare Brigade; 11.72 sailed from Kronshtadt to Baltiysk, and was visited by the Soviet Minister of Defence Grechko, and the commander of the Soviet Navy Gorshkov; 28.3.73 left for Severomorsk, but due to fog conditions, collided with the Czechoslovakian vessel "Sladno" in the Fehmarn Belt, and was forced to return to Baltiysk - repaired at KMOLZ, Kronshtadt; 4.73 to 5.73 sailed from Kronshtadt to Severomorsk; 12.5 to 29.5.73 took part in the exercise "Laguna" (search of submarines in the Northern Atlantic), together with RKR "Sevastopol" and BPK "Admiral Isakov"; 27.5.74 again visied by the commander of the Soviet Navy Gorshkov; 17.6.74 to 6.1.75 operations in the Central and Southern Atlantic - visited Havana and Cienfuegos, Cuba (24.9 to 29.9.74) and Casablanca, Morocco (2.12. to 6.12.74); 16.4 to 24.4.75 took part in the "Okean-75" exercise; 7.11.75 to 5.7.76 operations in the Central and Southern Atlantic, with temporary basing in Luanda, Angola - ensured the security of transport ships transporting Cuban volunteers to Angola - visited Conakry, Guinea; from 26.12.77 attached to the 120th Missile Ship Brigade; 9.78 operations in the Norwegian Sea and the Barents Sea, tracking the NATO exercise "Northern Wedding-78"; 5.4 to 12.4.79 took part in the command staff anti-submarine warfare exercise "Rasbeg-79", together with TAVKR "Kiev", BPK "Marshal Timoshenko", "Ognevoy" and EM "Moskovskiy Komsomolets"; from 12.2.82 attached to the 170th Anti-Submarine Warfare Brigade; 23.3.83 to 26.12.85 repairs and modernization at SRZ-35 in Rosta - new URK-5 Rastrub-B (SS-N-14B) replaces the old URPK-4 Metel (SS-N-14) - satellite communication complex R-790 "Tsunami-BM", fire control system "Vympel-A" and ADK-3M Sluz automated launch system added; 2.86 to 6.86 operations in the Mediterranean, with BPK "Marshal Vasilevskiy" and "Smyshlenyy", EM "Otlichnyy" and SKR "Rezvyy" - 4.86 SS-N-14 testfired; 24.3 to 28.3.87 took part in a command staff exercise, together with TARKR "Kirov", RKR "Vitse-Admiral Drozd", "Marshal Ustinov", BPK "Admiral Nakhimov, "Admiral Yumashev" and "Soobrazitelnyy", EM "Otlichnyy", "Otchayannyy" and "Sovremennyy"; 7.12.87 to 23.6.88 operations in the Mediterranean with RKR "Marshal Ustinov", with temporary basing in Tartus, Syria (12.4 to 10.5.88) - 20.2.88 fire onboard, but only slight damage - 26.3 to 31.3.88 visited Latakia, Syria - 12.5 to 19.6.88 tracked USS "Dwight D. Eisenhower"; from 1.10.91 attached to the 44th Anti-Submarine Warfare Division; 3.7.92 decomissioned; 1994 sold to a firm in India for scrapping
Marshal Voroshilov - A.A. Zhdanov - serial no. 725 - laid down 20.3.70 - launched 8.10.70 - completed 15.9.73; 12.73 to 5.74 sailed from Kronshtadt to Vladivostok, with operations in the Indian Ocean - 2.3 to 8.3.74 visited Port Louis, Mauritius with the tanker "Groznyy" - 3.4 to 17.4.74 visited Malabo, Mozambique and Berbera, Somalia; from 11.6.74 attached to the 201st Anti-Submarine Warfare Brigade; 1975 operations in the Indian Ocean; 1976 operations in the Indian Ocean; 30.3 to 25.12.77 repairs at Dalzavod, Vladivostok; during a storm 1.78 took part in the rescue of three Project 50 vessels (Riga class) in the Sea of Japan, that were in trouble - suffered some damage - repaired at Dalzavod, Vladivostok; early 4.78 took part in an exercise, together with RKR "Vladivostok", BPK "Sposobnyy", "Admiral Oktyabrskiy" and SKR "Razyashschiy" - the exercise was observed by General Secretary Brezhnev and Minister of Defence Ustinov onboard the cruiser "Admiral Senyavin"; 7.7.79 to 14.3.80 operations in the Indian Ocean and the Hormuz Strait, together with RKR "Vladivostok" (from 25.7.79) - tracked USS "Nimitz" in the Hormuz Strait (27.12.79 to 28.1.80) - visited Victoria, Seychelles (25.8.89, with RKR "Vladivostok"), Massaua, Ethiopia (30.9.79), Maputo, Mozambique (28.10.79), Victoria, Seychelles (8.12.79) and Colombo, Ceylon (Sri Lanka) (20.2.80); 11.80 to 3.86 repair and modernization at Dalzavod, Vladivostok - new URK-5 Rastrub-B (SS-N-14B) replaces the old URPK-4 Metel (SS-N-14) - satellite communication complex R-790 "Tsunami-BM" and ADK-3M Sluz automated launch system added; 24.4 to 29.4.88 took part in an ASW exercise in the Sea of Okhotsk, together with BPK "Tallin", SKR "Ryanyy", "Gordelivyy" and the submarine "K-436"; 8.88 to 5.89 operations in the South China Sea and Indian Ocean, with temporarily basing at Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam; 20.12.90 collided with the refrigerator vessel "Gorets" in the eastern Bosphorus Strait(?); 24.1.91 renamed "Khabarovsk"; 3.7.92 relegated to the reserve; 29.10.92 decomissioned - based at Vladivostok; 8.94 a fire brok out onboard, and the cruiser was scrapped shortly thereafter
Admiral Oktyabrskiy - A.A. Zhdanov - serial no. 726 - laid down 2.6.69 - launched 21.5.71 - completed 28.12.73; from 7.2.74 attached to the 201st Anti-Submarine Warfare Brigade; 6.74 to 11.74 sailed from Kronshtadt to Vladivostok, with operations in the Indian Ocean - visited Berbera, Somalia (17.6 to 30.6.74), Aden, South Yemen (6.8 to 23.8.74) and Colombo, Ceylon (Sri Lanka) (3.10 to 10.10.74) - 18.7.74 met the PKR "Leningrad" squadron coming from the Suez canal operations off Cape Guardafui (Somalia); 4.75 first launch of the SS-N-14 in the Pacific Fleet; 14.4 to 14.5.77 took part in the anti-submarine warfare exercise "Piton", together with BPK "Strogiy", "Gordyy", "Gnevnyy" and SKR "Razyashchiy" in the Philippine Sea; 2nd half of 1977 operations in the Indian Ocean, together with BPK "Vasiliy Chapaev"; early 4.78 took part in an exercise, together with RKR "Vladivostok", BPK "Sposobnyy", "Marshal Voroshilov" and SKR "Razyashschiy" - the exercise was observed by General Secretary Brezhnev and Minister of Defence Ustinov onboard the cruiser "Admiral Senyavin"; 5.78 to 11.78 operations in the Indian Ocean, including an anti-submarine warfare exercise "Piton" (24.5 to 28.6.78), together with BPK "Vasiliy Chapaev" and SKR "Razyashchiy" in the Philippine Sea; 15.8.78 to 17.12.79 repairs at Dalzavod, Vladivostok; 4.80 to 9.80 operations in the Indian Ocean - visited Tamrida (Sokrota Island), South Yemen (10.5 to 11.5.80), with RKR "Admiral Fokin" and SKR "Storozhevoy" - 20.5 to 30.5.80 visited Dakhlak and Aden, South Yemen; 19.12.82 to 10.10.86 repair and modernization at Dalzavod, Vladivostok - new URK-5 Rastrub-B (SS-N-14B) replaces the old URPK-4 Metel (SS-N-14) - satellite communication complex R-790 "Tsunami-BM" and ADK-3M Sluz automated launch system added; mid-1988 tested; 8.90 to 2.91 operations in the Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf; 30.6.93 decomissioned
Admiral Isachenkov - A.A. Zhdanov - serial no. 727 - laid down 30.10.70 - launched 28.2.72 - completed 5.11.74; 27.9 to 5.11.74 tested in the Baltics; 3.75 sailed from Liepaya to Severomorsk, arriving 15.3.75; from 10.12.74 attached to the 170th Anti-Submarine Warfare Brigade; 20.3.75 visited by Minister of Defence Grechko; 3.4 to 24.4.75 took part in exercise "Okean-75" as flagship; 15.9 to 22.11.75 operations in the Norwegian Sea and Northern Atlantic, including tracking of USS "Independence"; 9.76 to 10.76 took part in exercise "Osen-76" with BPK "Admiral Timoshenko", including tracking of USS "John. F. Kennedy" and HMS "Ark Royal"; 8.77 to 10.77 took part in exercise "Buer-77" in the Barents Sea and Northern Atlantic (alternate ways of communication using submerged cables); 20.11.77 to 7.1.78 escorted TAVKR "Kiev" to the Mediterranean, where they met BPK "Kerch"; 23.3 to 12.4.78 operations in the Northern Atlantic; 5.78 to 8.78 repair at SRZ-35 in Rosta; 6.12.79 to 28.4.80 operations in the Mediterranean, with TAVKR "Kiev" and BPK "Marshal Timoshenko"; 27.6 to 30.6.80 took part in the "Atlantika-80" exercise; 6.1 to 18.9.81 operations in the Mediterranean, with TAVKR "Kiev" and BPK "Marshal Timoshenko" - visited Rieka, Yugoslavia (9.3 to 19.3.81) with BPK "Marshal Timoshenko" and the submarine "B-4"; 3.12.82 to 1.8.86 repairs and modernization at KMOLZ, Kronshtadt (95th Battalion of Constructed and Overhauled Ships) - new URK-5 Rastrub-B (SS-N-14B) replaces the old URPK-4 Metel (SS-N-14) - satellite communication complex R-790 "Tsunami-BM" and ADK-3M Sluz automated launch system added; 5.1 to 24.6.87 operations in the Northern Atlantic and the Mediterranean, with TAVKR "Kiev", EM "Bezuprechnyy", SKR "Zadornyy" and "Zharkiy" - tracking of USS "Nimitz" - 2.87 visited Split, Yugoslavia - 4.87 visited Tripoli, Libya; 22.4.88 accidental firing of 30mm AK-630M guns during an air defence exercise; from 1.10.91 attached to the 44th Anti-Submarine Warfare Division; 3.7.92 decomissioned; 3.93 sold to a firm in India for scrapping
Marshal Timoshenko - A.A. Zhdanov - serial no. 728 - laid down 2.11.72 - launched 21.10.73 - completed 25.11.75; 20.10 to 25.11.75 tested in the Baltics; 15.4 to 22.4.76 sailed from Kronshtadt to Severomorsk - attached to the 120th Missile Ship Brigade; 8.76 to 9.76 weapons tests in the Barents Sea with TAVKR "Kiev"; 9.76 to 10.76 took part in exercise "Osen-76" with BPK "Admiral Isachenkov", including tracking of USS "John. F. Kennedy" and HMS "Ark Royal"; 14.4 to 22.4.77 took part in the "Sever-77" command staff exercise; 8.77 to 10.77 took part in the air defence exercise "Estafeta-77"; from 26.12.77 attached to the 170th Anti-Submarine Warfare Brigade; 10.3 to 18.4.78 operations in the Northeastern Atlantic; 9.78 to 10.78 searched for fragments of crashed Tu-16R at Svalbard Island (Norway) - 11.10.78 arrived back at Severomorsk; 5.4 to 12.4.79 took part in the command staff anti-submarine warfare exercise "Razbeg-79", together with TAVKR "Kiev", BPK "Admiral Makarov", "Ognevoy" and EM "Moskovskiy Komsomolets"; 6.12.79 to 28.4.80 operations in the Mediterranean, with TAVKR "Kiev" and BPK "Admiral Isachenkov"; 27.6 to 30.6.80 took part in the "Atlantika-80" exercise as flagship; 6.1 to 18.9.81 operations in the Mediterranean, with TAVKR "Kiev" and BPK "Admiral Isachenkov" - visited Rieka, Yugoslavia (9.3 to 19.3.81) with BPK "Admiral Isachenkov" and the submarine "B-4"; 24.10.81 contact with seabottom in Kandalaksha Bay - damaged, repaired at SRZ Severodvinsk; 2.82 took part in rescue operations for the "K-123" submarine, together with TAVKR "Kiev", BPK "Smyshlenyy" and rescue ship "Altay"; 1.7 to 27.12.82 operations in the Southwestern Atlantic - visited Conakry, Guinea - Pointe Noire, Congo (7.9 to 11.9.82) - Sao Tome, Sao Tome and Pricipe - Luanda and Mosamedish, Angola; 4.9 to 29.9.83 took part in the "Magistral-83" and "Okean-83" command staff exercises, with KR "Aleksandr Nevskiy", RKR "Admiral Zozulya", EM "Sovremennyy", "Otchayannyy" and BPK "Admiral Yumashev" and "Stroynyy"; 15.1 to 4.6.85 operations in the Mediterranean and the Red Sea, with TAVKR "Kiev", RKR "Vitse-Admiral Drozd", EM "Sovremennyy", "Otlichnyy" and BPK "Stroynyy" - tracking of USS "Dwight D. Eisenhower" - 24.2 to 26.2.85 through the Suez Canal to the Red Sea - visited Aden, South Yemen - visited Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia (9.5 to 13.5.85); 24.3 to 28.3.86 command staff exercise with TARKR "Kirov", TAVKR "Kiev" and EM "Gremyashchiy" - including SS-N-14 and SAM firings; 12.6 to 30.6.87 sailed from Severomorsk to Kronshtadt; 27.10.88 began repairs and modernization at KMOLZ, Kronshtadt (95th Battalion of Constructed and Overhauled Ships) - new URK-5 Rastrub-B (SS-N-14B) replaces the old URPK-4 Metel (SS-N-14) - satellite communication complex R-790 "Tsunami-BM" and ADK-3M Sluz automated launch system added - work stopped 10.91 due to lack of funds; 3.7.92 decomissioned; 1994 sold to a firm in India for scrapping
Vasiliy Chapayev - A.A. Zhdanov - serial no. 729 - laid down 22.12.73 - launched 28.11.74 - completed 30.11.76; from 24.12.76 attached to the 12th Missile Ship Division; 8.77 to 1.78 sailed from Kronshtadt to Vladivostok, with operations in the Southwestern Atlantic (together with Admiral Oktyabrskiy) - visits to Havana and Cienfuegos, Cuba - Luanda, Angola - Maputo, Mozambique - Aden, south Yemen - visited Bombay, India (16.12 to 21.12.77) together with SKR "Rezkiy"; from 31.3.78 attached to the 201st Anti-Submarine Warfare Brigade; 24.5 to 28.6.78 took part in the anti-submarine warfare exercise "Piton", together with BPK "Admiral Oktyabrskiy" and SKR "Razyashchiy" in the Philippine Sea; 2.79 to 3.79 operations in the South China Sea, with KR "Admiral Senyavin", RKR "Admiral Fokin", BPK "Sposobnyy", "Stroynyy", "Bozbuzhdennyy" and SKR "Razyashschiy" - showing support for Vietnam during the clashes at the Chinese/Vietnamese border; 1.82 to 11.82 operations in the Indian Ocean - many harbour visits, including Victoria, Seychelles (8.5 to 12.5.82) with SKR "Ryanyy" - Sokrota Island (with SKR "Ryanyy") - Dakhlak, Maputo (Mozambique), Cam Ranh Bay (Vietnam), Aden (South Yemen) and India; 1.83 to 10.83 repairs at Dalzavod, Vladivostok; 1.84 to 5.84 operations in the Philippine Sea and the South China Sea - including a visit to North Korea (Wonsan?); 1.10 to 3.10.84 took part in an anti-submarine warfare exercise "Dlinnaya Osen" in the Sea of Okhotsk, with TAVKR "Novorossiysk", BPK "Nikolayev", SKR "Storozhevoy", submarines "K-242", "B-299" and "B-404"; 2.85 took part in an anti-submarine warfare exercise in the Sea of Okhotsk, with TAVKR "Novorossiysk", BPK "Tashkent" and "Tallin"; 29.3 to 17.4.85 tactical exercise off Hawaii, together with TAVKR "Novorossiysk", BPK "Nikolayev", "Tashkent", "Tallin", SKR "Revnotsnyy" and "Poryvistyy", tankers "Vladimir Kolechitskiy" and "Ilim", and the submarine "K-360"; 8.85 to 9.86 operations in the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean, with temporarily basing at Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam; 15.10 to 17.10.86 took part in a Soviet/North Korean exercise, together with BPK "Tashkent", SKR "Gordelivyy", five Tarantul class missile boats and three support vessels - after that continued with operations in the Indian Ocean to 5.87; 3.5.92 relegated to the reserve; 30.6.93 decomissioned
Admiral Yumashev - A.A. Zhdanov - serial no. 730 - laid down 17.4.75 - launched 30.9.76 - completed 30.12.77; 10.10 to 25.11.77 tested in the Baltic; 5.3.78 visited by Commander of the Navy Gorshkov in Baltiysk; 4.78 sailed from Baltiysk to Severomorsk - arriving 24.4.78 - from 17.2.78 attached to the 170th Anti-Submarine Warfare Brigade; 15.12.78 to 27.3.79 operations in the Mediterranean and the Central Atlantic, together with BPK "Smyshlenyy" - escorted TAVKR "Kiev" - 2.79 to 3.79 located at the entrance to the Suez Canal, if needed in the South China Sea, during the Chinese/Vietnamese conflict - met TAVKR "Minsk" in the Mediterranean, while escorting TAVKR "Kiev" - took part in the exercises "Razbeg" and "Safari"; 9.79 to 10.79 observed the NATO exercise "Ocean Hunt-79"; 19.9.80 to 11.11.80 operations in the Northern and Central Atlantic - a planned visit to Cuba was cancelled; 31.8.81 to 11.4.82 operations in the Mediterranean - overhaul at SRZ-13 in Sevastopol (10.81) - tracked USS "Dwight D. Eisenhower" - featured in the Italian press, as the cruiser refused to aid a Italian fishing vessel in trouble - another planned visit to Cuba was cancelled - 22.2 to 27.2.82 visited Bizerta, Tunisia; 15.4.83 took part in an air defence exercise with TARKR "Kirov", BPK "Zhguchiy", "Gremyashchiy", EM "Otchayannyy", "Byvalyy" and other ships; 4.9 to 29.9.83 took part in the "Magistral-83" and "Okean-83" (20.9 to 26.9.83) command staff exercises, with KR "Aleksandr Nevskiy", RKR "Admiral Zozulya", EM "Sovremennyy", "Otchayannyy" and BPK "Admiral Timoshenko" and "Stroynyy"; 24.2 to 26.3.84 tracked the NATO exercise "Team Work.84" in the Norwegian Sea - suffered storm damage, and was repaired; 3.5 to 30.12.84 operations in the Southern Atlantic, with temporarily basing at Luanda, Angola (30th Operational Brigade) - visits to Conakry, Guinea (19.5 to 26.5.84) - passed the equator 30.5.84 - Pointe Noire, Congo (13.6 to 17.6.84) - Praya, Cape Verde (12.7 to 16.7.84) - Kotona, Benin (2.9 to 12.9.84) - Sao Tome, Sao Tome and Pricipe (14.11 to 19.11.84) - based at Luanda, Angola (3.6 to 11.6.84, 22.6 to 3.7.84, 29.7 to 29.8.84, 17.9 to 3.11.84 and 12.11 to 5.12.84); 14.2 to 14.6.86 repairs at SRZ-35 in Rosta; 30.6 to 6.7.86 tracking NATO vessels in the Barents Sea; 7.7. to 12.7.86 tracking NATO vessels in the Norwegian Sea; 20.1 to 24.1.87 suffered storm damage while on exercise, and had to return to base; 24.3 to 28.3.87 took part in a command staff exercise, together with TARKR "Kirov", RKR "Vitse-Admiral Drozd", "Marshal Ustinov", BPK "Admiral Nakhimov, "Admiral Makarov" and "Soobrazitelnyy", EM "Otlichnyy", "Otchayannyy" and "Sovremennyy"; 10.4.87 began repairs and modernization at SRZ-35 in Rosta - work stopped due to lack of funding, and the ship left the repair yard 14.10.89; from 1.10.91 attached to the 44th Anti-Submarine Warfare Division; 13.7.92 decomissioned; 1994 sold to a firm in India for scrapping
