MOSKVA (121) cruiser

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MOSKVA (121) cruiser

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Built as a cruiser by 61 Kommunara Shipbuilding Plant (SY 445), Nikolayev for the Soviet Union Navy.
04 October 1976 laid down.
1979 Launched as the SLAVA, two sisters.
Displacement 12,490 ton full load, dim. 186.4 x 20.8 x 8.4m. (draught)
Powered by four COGOG gas turbines, 121,000 shp., twin shafts, speed 32 knots.
Range by a speed of 16 knots10,000 miles.
Armament: 1 – 2 AU AK-130 guns, 6 – 6 ZU AK-630 AA guns. 8 – 2 PU PKRK P-1000 Volcano missile launchers, 8 – 8 PU of the S-300F S “Fort”. 2 – 2 Osa-MA missile defense systems. 2 RBU-6000 antisubmarine weapons. 2 – five tube 533mm torpedo tubes.
Carried 1 KA-27 helicopter.
Crew 480.
30 January 1983 commissioned as a unit of the Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol.

MOSKVA (Russian: Москва — "Moscow", formerly SLAVA (Russian: Слава — "Glory")) is the lead ship of the Project 1164 Atlant class of guided missile cruisers in the Russian Navy.
The ship is currently named for the city of Moscow.
History
SLAVA was laid down in 1976 in Shipyard 445 of the 61 Kommunara Shipbuilding Plant in Mykolaiv, was launched in 1979, and commissioned on 30 January 1983.
SLAVA played a role in the Malta Summit (2-3 December 1989) between Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev and US President George H. W. Bush. She was used by the Soviet delegation, while the US delegation had their sleeping quarters aboard USS BELKNAP. The ships were anchored in a roadstead off the coast of Marsaxlokk. Stormy weather and choppy seas resulted in some meetings being canceled or rescheduled and gave rise to the moniker the "Seasick Summit" among international media. In the end, the meetings took place aboard MAXIM GORKY, a Soviet cruise ship anchored in the harbor at La Valletta.
SLAVA returned to Mykolaiv in December 1990 for a refit but was not returned to service until April 2000.
As MOSKVA
Recommissioned as MOSKVA (121) on 16 April 2000, she replaced the Kynda-class cruiser ADMIRAL GOLOYKO as the flagship of the Black Sea Fleet.
In early April 2003, MOSKVA, along with PYTLIKYand SMETLIYY, and a landing ship departed Sevastopol for exercises in the Indian Ocean with a Pacific Fleet task group (MARSHAL SHAPOSHNIKOV and ADMIRAL PANTELEYEV) and the Indian NavyThe force was supported by the Project 1559V tanker IVAN BUBNOV van Bubnov and the Project 712 ocean-going tug SHAKTER.
In August 2008, in response to the Georgian crisis, MOSKVA was deployed to secure the Black Sea. After Russia's recognition of Abkhazia's independence, the ship was stationed at the Abkhazian capital, Sukhum.
On 3 December 2009, MOSKVA was laid up for a month at floating dock PD-30 for a scheduled interim overhaul which comprised of replacement of cooling and other machinery, reclamation work at the bottom and outboard fittings, propulsion shafts and screws, clearing and painting of bottom and above-water parts of the ship's hull.
In April 2010 it was reported that the cruiser would join other navy units in the Indian Ocean to conduct exercises. In August 2013 the cruiser visited Havana, Cuba.
In late August 2013, the cruiser was deployed to the Mediterranean Sea in response to the build-up of American warships along the coast of Syria. During the 2014 Crimean Crisis, MOSKVA was responsible for blockading the Ukrainian fleet in Donuzlav Lake. Since the end of September 2015, while in the eastern Mediterranean, the cruiser is charged with the air defenses for the Russian aviation group based near the Syrian town of Latakia that conducts the air campaign in Syria. On 25 November 2015, after the 2015 Russian Sukhoi Su-24 shootdown, it was reported that MOSKVA, armed with the S-300F surface-to-air missile system, would be deployed near the coastal Syria-Turkey border. In 2016, she was replaced by her sister ship VARYAG in the eastern Mediterranean Sea.
On July 22, 2016 Guards Missile Cruiser MOSKVA was awarded the order of Nakhimov.
2017 In active service.

15 April 2022 she sank after a Ukrainian missile attack Source CNN.

Source: Wikipedia.
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