''Admiral Zakharov'' was a of the Russian Navy. She was named after Soviet admiral Mikhail Zakharov.

Development and design

Project 1155 dates to the 1970s when it was concluded that it was too costly to build large-displacement, multi-role combatants. The concept of a specialized surface ship was developed by Soviet designers. They are 156 m in length, 17.3 m in beam and 6.5 m in draught.

Construction and career

''Admiral Zakharov'' was

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on 16 October 1981, and launched on 4 November 1982 by

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. She was commissioned on 30 December 1983. On January 18, 1984, the ship was included in the Pacific Fleet. The naval ensign was raised on 25 March 1984. In 1985, the ''Admiral Zakharov'' was considered the best ship of the

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as a part of the Baltic squadron of heterogeneous forces (commander - 2nd rank captain Viktor Vladimirovich Onofriychuk). In 1987, she made the transition to the Pacific Fleet. From 21 to 25 October 1987, she paid visits to

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, then from November 6 to November 11 to

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, from November 17 to November 23 to Victoria,

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, and from November 29 to 3 December the ship made a friendly visit to

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. Between 12–16 May 1988 as part of a detachment of ships under the flag of the commander of the Pacific Fleet, Admiral G. A. Khvatov, the ship engaged in technical cooperation and an exchange of visits between the ships of the Soviet Navy and the DPRK and also paid an official visit to

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. In the winter of 1988–1989 the ship undertook various tasks of combat service in the

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. In February 1989, the ship, together with floating base Ivan Kolyshkin, the minesweepers Rear Admiral Pershin, Kharkovsky Komsomolets and Vice-Admiral Zhukov, carried out the mission of protecting peaceful USSR shipping in the

zone. Arriving at the end of 1988, by 23 February 1989, she escorted six convoys of 15 ships (where the commander of the navigational combat unit, Lieutenant-Commander Alexander Marchenko, distinguished himself). For the entire time while the ship was part of the 8th operational squadron (autumn 1988–winter 1989), she escorted 21 ships in eight convoys (according to other sources, 53 ships in 23 convoys). The ship was commanded at this time by the captain of the 2nd rank A. V. Piskunov. From August 1990 to February 1991, the ''Admiral Zakharov'' performed combat service in the

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region, temporarily based on

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. During this service the crew installed two 2M-7 type machine-gun mounts with 14.5 mm KPV machine guns on the roof of the bridge. On 17 February 1992, at 11 hours 42 minutes (local time), at the transition to

Vladivostok Vladivostok ( rus, Владивосто́к, a=Владивосток.ogg, p=vɫədʲɪvɐˈstok) is the largest city and the administrative center of Primorsky Krai, Russia. The city is located around the Zolotoy Rog, Golden Horn Bay on the Sea ...

(in the Ussuri Bay, 7.4 kilometers from Cape Sysoev), in the aft engine room of the ''Admiral Zakharov'' there was an explosion of a gas turbine plant, which caused a volumetric fire (due to exceeding the maximum speed of the propeller (TV) turbine of the afterburner, it was destroyed and fragments scattered throughout the aft engine room. One of the fragments broke through the fuel tank (located under the engine) and the bottom of the ship allowing seawater to enter the tank which forced fuel into the aft engine room. As a result of the fire, one crew member died and five were hospitalized with various injuries and burns. The fight against the fire lasted 30 hours. Repair of the ''Admiral Zakharov'', which almost completely burned out the aft engine room, was deemed inexpedient, and the ship was written off and placed in 2nd category reserve. On 29 September 1994, she was put into dock In Vladivostok for welding to prepare her for the upcoming transfer to the military property sales department for final disposal. She was scrapped at the Chazhminsky shipyard in the early 2000s.

Gallery

File:443 "Адмирал Захаров".jpg, ''Admiral Zakharov'', date unknown. File:Admiral Zakharov 501.jpg, ''Admiral Zakharov'' in 1983. File:AdmiralZakharov1989.jpg, ''Admiral Zakharov'' underway on 7 March 1989. File:Пожар01.jpg, ''Admiral Zakharov'' on 17 February 1992.

References

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