Udaloy-class destroyer of the Russian Navy
 Admiral Zakharov in 1990
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| History |
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  Russia |
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| Name |
- Admiral Zakharov
- (Адмирал Захаров)
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| Namesake | Admiral Zakharov |
| Builder | Yantar Shipyard, Kaliningrad |
| Laid down | 16 October 1981 |
| Launched | 4 November 1982 |
| Commissioned | 30 December 1983 |
| Decommissioned | 2002 |
| Homeport | Severomorsk |
| Identification | Pennant number: 443, 464, 472, 501, 513, 541 |
| Fate | Scrapped |
| General characteristics |
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| Class and type | Udaloy-class destroyer
7,570 tons full load[1] |
| Length | 163 m (535 ft) |
| Beam | 19.3 m (63 ft) |
| Draught | 6.2 m (20 ft) |
| Propulsion | 2 shaft COGAG, 2× D090 6.7 MW and 2× DT59 16.7 gas turbines, 120,000 hp 89.456 MW |
| Speed | 35 kn (65 km/h; 40 mph) |
| Range | 10,500 nmi (19,400 km; 12,100 mi) at 14 kn (26 km/h; 16 mph) |
| Complement | 300 |
Sensors and
processing systems |
- Radar: MR-760MA Fregat-MA/Top Plate 3-D air search radar and MR-320M Topaz-V/Strut Pair air/surface search radar
- Sonar: Horse Tail LF VDS sonar and Horse Jaw bow mounted LF sonar
- Fire Control: 2 MR-360 Podkat/Cross Sword SA-N-9 SAM control, 2 3P37/Hot Flash SA-N-11 SAM control, Garpun-BAL SSM targeting
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Electronic warfare
& decoys |
- Bell Squat jammer
- Bell Shroud intercept
- Bell Crown intercept
- 2 × PK-2 decoy RL
- 10 × PK-10 decoy RL in later ships
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| Armament | |
| Aircraft carried | 2 × Ka-27 series helicopters |
| Aviation facilities | Helipad and hangar |
Admiral Zakharov was a Udaloy-class destroyer of the Russian Navy.[2]
Development and design
Project 1155 dates to the 1970s when it was concluded that it was too costly to build large-displacement, multi-role combatants. The concept of a specialized surface ship was developed by Soviet designers.
They are 156m in length, 17.3m in beam and 6.5m in draught.[3]
Construction and career
Admiral Zakharov was laid down on 16 October 1981, and launched on 4 November 1982 by Severnaya Verf in Saint Petersburg. She was commissioned on 30 December 1983. On January 18, 1984, the ship was included in the Pacific Fleet. The naval flag was raised on March 25, 1984.
In 1985, the Admiral Zakharov was the best ship of the Baltic Fleet as part of the Baltic squadron of heterogeneous forces (commander - 2nd rank captain Viktor Vladimirovich Onofriychuk).
In 1987 he made the transition to the Pacific Fleet. In 1987, from October 21 to October 25 - a visit to Luanda in Angola, then from November 6 to November 11 to Maputo in Mozambique, from November 17 to November 23 to Victoria, Seychelles, and from November 29 to 3 December, the ship made a friendly visit to Bombay in India.
May 12 - 16, 1988, as part of a detachment of ships under the flag of the commander of the Pacific Fleet, Admiral G. A. Khvatov, the ship technical cooperation and exchange of visits between the ships of the Soviet Navy and the DPRK, paid an official visit to Wonsan. In the winter from 1988 to 1989, the ship completed the tasks of combat service in the Persian Gulf.
In February 1989, the ship together with the floating base Ivan Kolyshkin, the minesweepers Rear Admiral Pershin, Kharkovsky Komsomolets and Vice-Admiral Zhukov, carried out the tasks of protecting peaceful USSR shipping in the Persian Gulf zone. Arriving at the end of 1988 in the bay, by February 23, the ship conducted 6 convoys of 15 ships (where the commander of the navigational combat unit, Lieutenant-Commander Alexander Marchenko, distinguished himself. For the entire time while the ship was part of the 8th operational squadron (autumn 1988 - winter 1989), he spent 21 ships in 8 convoys (according to other sources, 53 ships in 23 convoys) [5]. The ship was commanded at this moment by the captain of the 2nd rank A.V. Piskunov.
From August 1990 to February 1991, the Admiral Zakharov performed the tasks of combat service in the South China Sea region, temporarily based on Cam Ranh. During this combat service, the crew installed two 2M-7 type machine-gun mounts with 14.5-mm KPV machine guns on the roof of the bridge.
February 17, 1991, at 11 hours 42 minutes (local time)[4], at the transition to Vladivostok (in the Ussuri Bay, 7.4 kilometers from Cape Sysoev)[5], in the aft engine room of the Admiral Zakharov there was an explosion of a gas turbine plant[6], which caused a volumetric fire (due to exceeding the maximum speed of the propeller (TV) turbine of the afterburner, it was destroyed, fragments scattered throughout the aft engine room, one of them broke through the fuel tank (located under the engine) and the bottom of the ship, outboard water, entering the tank, squeezed fuel into the aft engine room). As a result of the fire, one crew member died, five were hospitalized with various injuries and burns. The fight against the fire lasted 30 hours.[7]
Repair of the Admiral Zakharov, which almost completely burned out the aft engine room, was deemed inexpedient, and the ship was written off to the 2nd category reserve. On September 29, 1994, the ship in Vladivostok was put into the dock to weld the outboard holes, in connection with the upcoming transfer to the military property sales department for disposal.
Disassembled for metal at the Chazhminsky shipyard in the early 2000s.[8]
