Ukrainian frigate Dnipropetrovsk
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{{Infobox ship image |Ship image=Bezzavetnyy&Zhdanov&Magomed Gadzhiev.jpg |Ship caption=Bezzavetnyy is closest to the camera, the cruiser Zhdanov in the middle and the submarine tender Magomed Gadzhiev in the rear }} {{Infobox ship career |Hide header= |Ship country=Soviet Union → Russia |Ship flag={{shipboxflag|Soviet Union|naval}} → {{shipboxflag|Russia|navy-1992}} |Ship name=Bezzavetnyy |Ship namesake= |Ship ordered= 4 July 1973 |Ship awarded= |Ship builder= Zaliv Shipbuilding yard (Kerch) |Ship original cost= |Ship yard number= 14 |Ship way number= |Ship laid down= |Ship launched=7 May 1977 |Ship sponsor= |Ship christened= |Ship completed= |Ship acquired= |Ship commissioned=17 February 1978 |Ship recommissioned= |Ship decommissioned=8 September 1997 |Ship maiden voyage= |Ship in service= |Ship out of service= |Ship renamed= |Ship reclassified= |Ship refit= |Ship struck= |Ship reinstated= |Ship homeport= |Ship identification= |Ship motto= |Ship nickname= |Ship honours= |Ship honors= |Ship captured= |Ship fate= Transferred to Ukraine on 1 August 1997 |Ship notes= |Ship badge= }} {{Infobox ship career |Hide header=title | Ship country = Ukraine | Ship flag = {{shipboxflag|Ukraine|naval}} | Ship name = Dnipropetrovsk | Ship renamed = 1997 | Ship acquired = 1 August 1997 | Ship decommissioned = October 2002 |Ship identification= U134 | Ship reclassified = "Technical property" (2002) | Ship fate = Scuttled on 12 May 2005 }} {{Infobox ship characteristics |Hide header= |Header caption= |Ship class={{sclass2|Burevestnik|frigate}} |Ship displacement=3,300 tons standard, 3,575 tons full load |Ship length={{convert|405.3|ft|m|1|abbr=on}} |Ship beam={{convert|46.3|ft|m|1|abbr=on}} |Ship draft={{convert|15.1|ft|m|1|abbr=on}} |Ship power= |Ship propulsion=*2 shaft; COGAG
|Ship speed={{convert|32|kn|lk=in}} |Ship range={{convert|4995|nmi|lk=in|abbr=on}} at {{convert|14|kn}} |Ship complement=200 |Ship crew= |Ship time to activate= |Ship sensors=*Radar: 1 MR-755 Fregat-M/Half Plate air/surface search
|Ship EW=Start suite with Bell Shroud intercept, Bell Squat jammer, 4 PK-16 decoy RL, 8 PK-10 decoy RL, 2 towed decoys |Ship armament=*1 × 4 URK-5 (SS-N-14 'Silex') SSM/ASW missiles
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The Ukrainian frigate Dnipropetrovsk was the former Soviet frigate (guard ship) Bezzavetnyy of the {{sclass2|Burevestnik|frigate|0}} (NATO codename: Krivak I) built for the Soviet Navy in the late 1970s.
Service history
=Black Sea incident=
{{main|1988 Black Sea bumping incident}}
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On 12 February 1988, under the command of Captain 2nd Rank Vladimir Bogdashin, the ship intentionally{{cite web |url=http://www.istpravda.com.ua/videos/2011/02/12/24092/ |title=1988: радянський фрегат атакує американський крейсер під Ялтою |trans-title=1988: A Soviet frigate attacks an American cruiser near Yalta |date=12 February 2011 |website=Istorychna Pravda |language=uk}}{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SME4w037FgA&feature=player_embedded#at=95 |title=1988 Soviet ramming USS Yorktown CG-48 in Black Sea |author=Gunnermatecg48 |date=20 August 2008 |website=YouTube}} nudged the U.S. missile cruiser {{USS|Yorktown|CG-48|6}} in Soviet territorial waters while Yorktown was claiming innocent passage.
=Ukrainian service=
In summer of 1997 during the division of the Black Sea fleet she was transferred to the Ukrainian Navy, receiving the name of Dnipropetrovsk.
=Fate=
Dnipropetrovsk was decommissioned in 2002 and was scuttled in the Black Sea in the spring of 2005.
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See also
- {{ship|Ukrainian frigate|Mykolaiv||6}}
References
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=Bibliography=
- {{cite book|last1=Gardiner|first1=Robert|last2=Chumbley|first2=Stephen|last3=Budzbon|first3=Przemysław |title=Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1947–1995 |year=1995 |publisher=Naval Institute Press |location=Annapolis, Maryland |isbn=1-55750-132-7}}
External links
- {{cite web |url=http://navycollection.narod.ru/battles/Cold_war/foros/history.html |title=Военно-морская операция в районе Фороса |trans-title=Naval operations in the Foros region |first=V.P. |last=Zablotsky |website=Военно-морская коллекция |language=ru |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140324044424/http://navycollection.narod.ru/battles/Cold_war/foros/history.html |archive-date=2014-03-24}}
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Category:Krivak-class frigates of the Ukrainian Navy
Category:Ships built at the Zalyv Shipbuilding yard
Category:Maritime incidents in 1988
Category:Ships built in the Soviet Union
Category:Military history of Dnipro
Category:Cold War frigates of the Soviet Union
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