''Admiral Fokin'' (russian: link=no, italic=yes, Адмирал Фокин) was the second ship of the Soviet Navy Project 58 ''Groznyy''-class Guided Missile

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s (, RKR), also known as the Kynda Class. Launched on 19 November 1961, the vessel served with the

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from the latter half of the 1960s through the 1980s. It undertook a tour of the Indian Ocean, which included visits to foreign ports. ''Admiral Fokin'' was transferred to the Russian Navy after the

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, but was decommissioned on 30 June 1993 and scrapped.

Design

Displacing standard and full load, ''Admiral Fokin'' was in length. Power was provided by two TV-12 steam turbines, fuelled by four KVN-95/64 boilers and driving two fixed pitch

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. Design speed was . The ship was designed for

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around two quadruple SM-70 P-35 launchers for sixteen 4K44 missiles (

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SS-N-3 'Shaddock’). To defend against aircraft, the ship was equipped with a single twin ZIF-102 M-1 Volna launcher with sixteen V-600 4K90 (SA-N-1 ‘Goa’) missiles forward and two twin guns aft, backed up by two single guns. Defence against submarines was provided by two triple torpedoes and a pair of

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anti-submarine rocket launchers. In 1975, the missiles were updated and the main radar was upgraded to MR-310A. In 1980, two Uspekh-U radars were added to the ship.

Service

It Launched on 19 November 1961 with the name ''Steregushyy''. (russian: стерегущий –''vigilant'') The vessel was renamed ''Vladivostok'' ( rus, Владивосто́к – ''ruler of the east'') on 31 October 1962 and eventually received its definitive name of ''Admiral Fokin'' on 11 May 1964. The vessel was named after Admiral

Vitaliy Alekseyevich Fokin Vitaly Alekseyevich Fokin (Виталий Алексеевич Фо́кин) (17 March 1906 – 23 January 1964) was a Soviet admiral and the first deputy commander of the Soviet Navy. Naval career A worker's son, Vitaliy Alekseyevich Fokin join ...

. ''Admiral Fokin'' sailed in 1965 from Severomorsk to Vladivostok to serve with the 175th Missile Ship Brigade in the Pacific Fleet. During the 1960s, the vessel toured the

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, visiting

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, Kenya (26 November to 2 December 1968),

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, South Yemen (2 to 7 January 1969),

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, North Yemen (9 to 12 January 1969),

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, India (February 1969),

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, Kenya (5 to 9 April 1969) and

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, Mauritius (19 April to 23 April 1969). In February and March 1979, ''Admiral Fokin'' joined a large fleet of Soviet warships led by

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that operated in the

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in support of

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during clashes along their border with China. The vessel continued to serve in the Indian Ocean in the 1980s, returning to South Yemen in May 1980. At the dissolution of the Soviet Union, ''Admiral Fokin'' was decommissioned on 30 June 1993 and scrapped in 1995.

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