Ukrainian frigate Dnipropetrovsk

Bezzavetnyy is closest to the camera, the cruiser Zhdanov in the middle and the submarine tender Magomed Gadzhiev in the rear
History
→ Soviet Union → Russia
Name	Bezzavetnyy
Ordered	4 July 1973
Builder	Zaliv Shipbuilding yard (Kerch)
Yard number	14
Launched	7 May 1977
Commissioned	17 February 1978
Decommissioned	8 September 1997
Fate	Transferred to Ukraine on 1 August 1997
Ukraine
Name	Dnipropetrovsk
Acquired	1 August 1997
Decommissioned	October 2002
Renamed	1997
Reclassified	"Technical property" (2002)
Identification	U134
Fate	Scuttled on 12 May 2005
General characteristics
Class and type	Burevestnik-class frigate
Displacement	3,300 tons standard, 3,575 tons full load
Length	405.3 ft (123.5 m)
Beam	46.3 ft (14.1 m)
Draft	15.1 ft (4.6 m)
Propulsion	2 shaft; COGAG 2 x M-8k gas-turbines, 40,000 shp (30,000 kW) 2 x M-62 gas-turbines (cruise), 14,950 shp (11,150 kW)
Speed	32 knots (59 km/h; 37 mph)
Range	4,995 nmi (9,251 km; 5,748 mi) at 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph)
Complement	200
Sensors and processing systems	Radar: 1 MR-755 Fregat-M/Half Plate air/surface search Sonar: Zvezda-2 suite with MGK-345 Bronza/Ox Yoke bow mounted LF, Ox Tail LF VDS Fire Control: Purga ASW combat system, 2 Drakon/Eye Bowl SSM targeting, 2 MPZ-301 Baza/Pop Group
Electronic warfare & decoys	Start suite with Bell Shroud intercept, Bell Squat jammer, 4 PK-16 decoy RL, 8 PK-10 decoy RL, 2 towed decoys
Armament	1 × 4 URK-5 (SS-N-14 'Silex') SSM/ASW missiles 2 × Osa-MA (SA-N-4'Gecko') SAM (40 missiles) 4 × 76 mm guns (2×2) 2 × quad 533 mm torpedo tubes

The Ukrainian frigate Dnipropetrovsk was the former Soviet frigate (guard ship) Bezzavetnyy of the Burevestnik-class (NATO codename: Krivak I) built for the Soviet Navy in the late 1970s.

Service history[]

Black Sea incident[]

Bezzavetnyy shown colliding with USS Yorktown

On 12 February 1988, under the command of Captain 2nd Rank Vladimir Bogdashin, the ship intentionally^[1][2] nudged the U.S. missile cruiser USS Yorktown in Soviet territorial waters while Yorktown was claiming innocent passage.

Ukrainian service[]

In summer of 1997 during the division of the Black Sea fleet she was transferred to the Ukrainian Navy, receiving the name of Dnipropetrovsk.

Fate[]

Dnipropetrovsk was decommissioned in 2002 and was scuttled in the Black Sea in the spring of 2005.

See also[]

• Ukrainian frigate Mykolaiv

References[]

Bibliography[]

• Gardiner, Robert; Chumbley, Stephen; Budzbon, Przemysław (1995). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1947–1995. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-55750-132-7.

External links[]

• Zablotsky, V.P. "Военно-морская операция в районе Фороса" [Naval operations in the Foros region]. Военно-морская коллекция (in Russian). Archived from the original on 24 March 2014.

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