Ukrainian frigate Dnipropetrovsk
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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.
 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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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.
In summer of 1997 during the division of the Black Sea fleet she was transferred to the Ukrainian Navy, receiving the name of Dnipropetrovsk.
Dnipropetrovsk was decommissioned in 2002 and was scuttled in the Black Sea in the spring of 2005.
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