''Derzky'' was the fourth ship of the of the
Soviet Navy.
Construction and career
The ship was built at
Zhdanov Shipyard in
Leningrad
Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...
and was
launched on 4 February 1960 and
commissioned into the
Northern Fleet on 30 December 1961.
On January 12, 1962, the ship entered the Northern Fleet of the Soviet Navy. On May 19, 1966, the ''Derzky'' was reclassified into a large missile ship (BRK).
In the period from November 20, 1967 to April 22, 1972, it was modernized and rebuilt according to Project 57-A at the shipyard named after V.I. A. A. Zhdanov. On October 20, 1970, the ship was reclassified as a large anti-submarine ship.
In the period from 4 to 9 August 1973, the ship visited
Havana
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Cuba
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). On August 7, 1977, the ship was withdrawn from the fleet, mothballed and put on hold in
Sayda-Guba.
On April 19, 1990, the destroyer was excluded from the Soviet Navy in connection with the delivery to the OFI for disarmament, dismantling and sale. On October 1, 1990, the crew of the ship was disbanded, and the ship was turned into a
target ship
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.
Citations
References
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In Russian
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External links
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Gallery of the ship'. Navsource. Retrieved 11 August 2021
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Ships built at Severnaya Verf
Kanin-class destroyers
1960 ships
Cold War destroyers of the Soviet Union