Ukrainian frigate Dnipropetrovsk

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	2 shaft; COGAG 2 x M-8k gas-turbines, 40,000 shp (30,000 kW) 2 x M-62 gas-turbines (cruise), 14,950 shp (11,150 kW)
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	Radar: 1 MR-755 Fregat-M/Half Plate air/surface search Sonar: Zvezda-2 suite with MGK-345 Bronza/Ox Yoke bow mounted LF, Ox Tail LF VDS Fire Control: Purga ASW combat system, 2 Drakon/Eye Bowl SSM targeting, 2 MPZ-301 Baza/Pop Group
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	1 × 4 URK-5 (SS-N-14 'Silex') SSM/ASW missiles 2 × Osa-MA (SA-N-4'Gecko') SAM (40 missiles) 4 × 76 mm guns (2×2) 2 × quad 533 mm torpedo tubes

Service history

Black Sea incident

Main article: 1988 Black Sea bumping incident

Bezzavetnyy shown colliding with USS Yorktown

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.

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.

See also

• Ukrainian frigate Mykolaiv