''Volevoy'' was a of the Soviet Navy which later transferred to the

Indonesian Navy The Indonesian Navy ( id, Tentara Nasional Indonesia Angkatan Laut, , Indonesian National Military-Naval Force, TNI-AL) is the naval branch of the Indonesian National Armed Forces. It was founded on 10 September 1945 and has a role to patrol I ...

and renamed RI ''Siliwangi'' (201).

Development

The development of the first post-war destroyer project based on the previous project 30 was entrusted to the TsKB-17 team. The composition of the armament was finally specified on November 28, 1945. The technical design materials and working drawings were developed under the leadership of the chief designer A. L. Fisher (deputies G. D. Agul, K. A. Maslennikov) in the new, recreated, TsKB-53. The technical design was approved by the Decree of the Council of Ministers of the USSR No. 149-95 of January 28, 1947. The lead ship of this project was accepted into the USSR Navy on December 21, 1949, on the occasion of

J.V. Stalin Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili; – 5 March 1953) was a Georgian revolutionary and Soviet political leader who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. He held power as General Secretar ...

's birthday. Engineer-Lieutenant Colonel A.T.

Construction and career

The ship was built at

Amur Shipbuilding Plant OJSC Amur Shipbuilding Plant (russian: Амурский судостроительный завод, ''Amurskiy Sudostroitelnyy Zavod'', and also called the "Leninskiy Komsomol Shipyard") is an important shipyard in eastern Russia, based in Kom ...

Komsomolsk-on-Amur Komsomolsk-on-Amur ( rus, Комсомольск-на-Амуре, r=Komsomolsk-na-Amure, p=kəmsɐˈmolʲsk nɐɐˈmurʲə) is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, city in Khabarovsk Krai, Russia, located on the west bank of the Amur Rive ...

and was launched on 11 September 1951 and commissioned into the Pacific Fleet on 29 December 1951. She was decommissioned on 17 February 1959 and sold to the Indonesian Navy. She was renamed RI ''Siliwangi'' (201). She was again retired from service in 1971.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Volevoy Ships built by Amur Shipbuilding Plant Skoryy-class destroyers 1951 ships Ships of the Indonesian Navy