Skr ship transcript. So what did the Ladny patrol ship fire with? BOD “Storozhevoy”

November 9th, 2015

40 years ago, on November 8, 1975, captain Valery Sablin rebelled on the ship "Storozhevoy". That day, Sablin addressed the crew with the words: “The current state apparatus must be thoroughly cleansed and partially thrown into the dustbin of history. Action plan - we go to Kronstadt, and then to Leningrad - the city of three revolutions." He isolated the ship's commander, arbitrarily removed the ship from the roadstead in Riga and took it to Leningrad. The uprising was suppressed immediately.

Valery Mikhailovich Sablin was born on January 1, 1939 in Leningrad in the family of the hereditary military sailor Mikhail Sablin. In 1960 he graduated from the Leningrad Higher Naval School named after Frunze. He received a specialty as a naval gunner and began serving in the Northern Fleet as an assistant commander of a battery of 130-mm guns on a destroyer. Until 1969, he served in combat positions and from the position of assistant commander of a patrol ship of the Northern Fleet entered the Lenin Military-Political Academy. He graduated from the Academy in 1973 with honors: his name was engraved on a marble plaque among the names of other best graduates of the Academy (in November 1975 he was hastily cut down with a chisel). After graduating from the academy, Captain III Rank Sablin was appointed political officer on the large anti-submarine ship Storozhevoy.

Sablin developed a detailed program for the reconstruction of society. Sablin was highly politically active and had already written to Khrushchev, expressing his thoughts about the purity of the party ranks. He advocated a multi-party system, freedom of speech and discussion, and a change in the procedure for elections in the party and the country. The officer decided to announce his program, pointing out the serious mistakes and corruption of the Soviet leadership, from the “tribune” of the Storozhevoy BOD.

However, Sablin could not immediately realize his plan. The ship was new, the crew was just being formed. The officers were busy with work. During combat service, the political officer studied the crew and gradually introduced his views and plans to some of its members, and found like-minded people among them. Sablin had the opportunity to perform in the fall of 1975, when the ship was sent for scheduled repairs to Liepaja, but before that he received an order to take part in the naval parade in Riga dedicated to the 58th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution. Some of the ship's officers went on vacation; their absence was to Sablin's benefit.

On November 6, 1975, the Sentry arrived at the Riga roadstead. On November 8, 1975, at about 7 p.m., Sablin cunningly lured and locked the ship's commander, Anatoly Potulny, on the lower deck. After this, he gathered 13 officers and 13 midshipmen in the midshipman's wardroom, where he outlined his views and proposals. In particular, he stated that the leadership of the USSR had moved away from Leninist principles. Sablin proposed to make an unauthorized passage of the ship to Kronstadt, to declare it an independent territory, and on behalf of the crew to demand from the leadership of the party and the country to give him the opportunity to speak on Central Television outlining his views. According to another version, Sablin planned to sail the ship to Leningrad, dock next to the Aurora and from there go on television every day, calling on the citizens of the USSR for a communist revolution, a change in the Brezhnev party-state apparatus and the establishment of social justice.

Sablin suggested voting for his proposals. Some officers supported him, and 10 who opposed were isolated. In fact, the officers and midshipmen (even those who did not agree with Sablin in everything and to the end) allowed Sablin to seize the ship. They allowed it by their non-resistance, their self-removal from the course of events, their consent to the arrest. Then Sablin gathered the ship's crew and spoke to the sailors and foremen. He announced that the majority of the officers were on his side and invited the crew to also support him. The disoriented crew offered no resistance. In fact, one determined and active person subjugated the entire crew to his will. The captain could have interfered with him, but Sablin skillfully isolated him from the crew.

The political officer’s plans were disrupted by the commander of the ship’s electrical engineering group, Senior Lieutenant Firsov, who managed to quietly leave the Storozhevoy and report the emergency situation. As a result, Sablin lost the element of surprise. He took the ship out of the port and directed it towards the exit from the Gulf of Riga.

Vice Admiral Kosov ordered the ships stationed in the Riga roadstead to catch up with the rebel. Reports of the emergency at Storozhevoy were immediately sent to the Ministry of Defense and the Kremlin. An alarming call found the Commander-in-Chief of the USSR Navy, Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Gorshkov, at his dacha; On the way to Moscow, he contacted the country's Minister of Defense, Marshal Grechko, from the car. The minister’s order was brief: “Catch up and destroy!”

The ships of the border guard and the Baltic Fleet, as well as the 668th Bomber Aviation Regiment, were alerted. Then, on the orders of Marshal Grechko, a regiment of strategic aviation - Tu-16 long-range missile carriers - took off. The border guards asked for permission to demolish the wheelhouse along with Sablin using machine guns, but Kosov did not allow it. The Watchdog was warned: when crossing the 20th meridian, a missile strike would be launched to destroy it.

On November 9 at 10 o’clock in the morning, Admiral Gorshkov radioed the order to the Storozhevoy: “Stop the move!” Captain Sablin refused. Marshal Grechko repeated the order on his own behalf. Instead of answering, Sablin broadcast an appeal: “Everyone! Everyone! Everyone!..” The ship’s radio operator added at the end of the text: “Farewell, brothers!”

At about three o'clock in the morning on November 9, 1975, the 668th Bomber Aviation Regiment, based at the Tukums airfield two dozen kilometers from Jurmala, was raised on alert.

Armed with outdated Yak-28 front-line bombers by that time, the regiment was not prepared to launch air strikes against naval targets at night in difficult meteorological conditions with the established minimum weather.

The regiment commander, as required by the Combat Regulations, began to make a decision to strike the ship, the deputies and heads of services began to prepare proposals for the decision, the headquarters began to carry out the necessary calculations, formalize this decision and organize its implementation.

The army crew of the reconnaissance aircraft, not trained for such tasks, did not complete their task - they did not detect the ship.

The bomber crew, carrying out a search in the estimated area where the Storozhevoy was located, almost immediately discovered a large surface target within the boundaries of the search area, approached it at a given altitude of 500 meters, visually identified it in the haze as a destroyer-sized warship and carried out pre-emptive bombing. the ship's course, trying to place a series of bombs closer to the ship. The bombs exploded almost above its surface, and a sheaf of fragments ricocheted right into the side of the ship, which turned out to be a Soviet cargo ship that had left the port of Ventspils a few hours earlier.

The mistake became clear quite quickly: the cargo ship began sending a distress signal in radiotelegraph and radiotelephone modes, accompanied by clear text: a bandit attack in the territorial waters of the Soviet Union. The ships of the Baltic Fleet and the KGB Border Troops received these signals and reported on command. This ship gave a distress signal for more than an hour, until one of the warships approached it. It is known that there were no killed or wounded on board, and repairing the damage to the ship cost the Ministry of Defense a tanker of rectified alcohol and a five-ton truck of oil paint (all of the above was transported to Ventspils).

And about. The commander of the air army suddenly ordered the entire regiment to be raised in the shortest possible time to strike the ship (the exact location of the ship was still unknown).

The flight director at the command and control post (CCP), the first to understand the absurdity and danger of the current situation, forbade anyone to take off without his permission, which brought upon himself a storm of negative emotions from the regiment commander. To the credit of the old and experienced lieutenant colonel, who showed firmness, the regiment’s takeoff to carry out the combat mission became manageable. But it was no longer possible to build the regiment’s pre-developed battle formation in the air, and the planes went to the strike area mixed in two echelons with a minute interval on each. In fact, it was already a flock, not controlled by squadron commanders in the air, and an ideal target for two ship-based missile defense systems with a 40-second firing cycle. With a high degree of probability, it can be argued that if the ship had actually repelled this air strike, then all 18 aircraft of this “battle formation” would have been shot down.

At this time, the aircraft searching for the ship from the side of the island of Gotland finally discovered a group of ships, two of which looked larger on the radar sight screen, and the rest lined up like a front. Having violated all restrictions on not descending below 500 meters, the crew passed between two warships at an altitude of 50 meters, which he identified as large anti-submarine ships (LAS). There were 5-6 km between the ships, on board one of them the desired side number of the rebel "Storozhevoy" was clearly visible. The second was the pursuit ship. The regiment's command post immediately received a report on the azimuth and distance of the ship from the Tukums airfield, as well as a request for confirmation of its attack. Having received permission to attack, the crew performed a maneuver and attacked the ship from a height of 200 meters from the front from the side at an angle of 20-25 degrees from its axis. Sablin, controlling the ship, competently thwarted the attack, vigorously maneuvering towards the attacking aircraft to a heading angle of 0 degrees.

The bomber was forced to stop the attack (it was unlikely to hit a narrow target when bombing from the horizon) and, descending to 50 meters (the crew always remembered the two Osa-type air defense systems), it slipped right over the ship. With a slight climb to an altitude of 200 meters, he performed a maneuver called in Air Force tactics a “standard 270-degree turn” and attacked the ship again from the side from behind. Quite reasonably assuming that the ship would escape from the attack by maneuvering in the opposite direction from the attacking aircraft, the crew attacked at such an angle that the ship would not have time to turn to the aircraft's heading angle of 180 degrees before dropping the bombs.

It happened exactly as the bomber crew expected. Sablin tried not to expose the side of the ship, fearing top-mast bombing (he did not know that the bomber did not have the aerial bombs needed for this method of bombing). The first bomb of the series hit right in the middle of the deck on the ship's quarterdeck, destroyed the deck covering during the explosion and jammed the ship's rudder in the position in which it was located. Other bombs in the series landed at a slight angle from the ship's axis and damaged the rudder and propellers. The ship began to describe a wide circulation and stopped moving.

The crew of the bomber, having completed the attack, began to sharply gain altitude, keeping the Storozhevoy in sight and trying to determine the result of the strike, when they saw a series of signal flares fired from the side of the attacked ship. The report to the regiment's command post was very brief: it was launching missiles. There was instantly dead silence on the air and at the regiment’s command post, because everyone was waiting for the launch of the air defense missile system and did not forget about it for a minute. Who got them? After all, a column of single aircraft was already approaching the ship’s location. These moments of absolute silence seemed like a long hour. After some time, a clarification followed: signal flares, and the air literally exploded with a discordant hubbub of crews trying to clarify their combat mission.

The regiment's planes reached the target, and the first crew of the regiment's column jumped onto one of the pursuing ships and immediately attacked it, mistaking it for a rebel ship. The attacked ship dodged the falling bombs, but responded with fire from all its automatic anti-aircraft guns. The ship fired a lot, but missed, and this is understandable: the border guards hardly ever in their lives fired at a “live”, skillfully maneuvering aircraft.

And it was only the first bomber out of 18 in the regiment’s column that attacked, and who would the rest attack? By this point in time, no one doubted the determination of the pilots: neither the rebels nor the pursuers. Apparently, the naval command asked itself this question in time and found the correct answer to it, realizing that it was time to stop this orgy of attacks, which, in fact, was “organized” by them. It was repeatedly broadcast in clear text in radiotelephone mode on the VHF channels of aviation control: “Control exercises of naval and aviation forces - all clear.”

Even before the visual and demonstrative bombing of the ship, its personnel, who began to proactively take measures to disable weapons and some of the technical equipment, self-organized and took energetic actions to free the commander and officers.

At 10.20, even before the bombs were dropped by the plane, they were freed by a group of brave sailors.

The actions of the ship's commander during the liberation and subsequently were quick and decisive. By his order, the arsenal was opened, the sailors, foremen and officers were armed.

Here is how the commander of the Watchdog himself talks about it:
“I tried to get out of the compartment where Sablin lured me. I found some piece of iron, broke the lock on the hatch, got into the next compartment - it was also locked. When this lock was also broken, sailor Shein blocked the hatch with a sliding emergency stop. That's it, you can't get out on your own. But then the sailors began to guess what was happening. Petty Officer 1st Article Kopylov and the sailors (Stankevichus, Lykov, Borisov, Nabiev) pushed Shein away, knocked out the stop and freed me. I took a pistol, the rest armed themselves with machine guns and two groups - one from the side of the tank, and I along the internal passage - began to climb onto the bridge. Seeing Sablin, the first impulse was to shoot him right away, but then the thought flashed: “He will still be useful to justice!” I shot him in the leg. He fell. We went up to the bridge, and I announced on the radio that order had been restored on the ship.”

This was the only instance of firearms being used on board the Storozhevoy.

Then a boarding party was landed on deck and arrested the wounded instigator of the uprising. Sablin and his supporters were arrested. Sablin immediately took all the blame for what happened, without naming anyone as an accomplice.

The Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR accused Sablin of treason and sentenced him to death. The investigation announced that this entire political program was developed only with the aim of deceiving future comrades: in fact, Sablin was going to take the ship not to Leningrad, but to the Swedish island of Gotland, where the ship's political officer intended to ask for political asylum in the United States. Sablin categorically rejected accusations of treason and attempting to hijack a warship abroad. Captain 3rd Rank Valery Sablin and several other people involved in the mutiny were stripped of their titles and awards. Sablin was shot on August 3, 1976 in Moscow.

After the collapse of the USSR, people started talking about Sablin and Shein as victims of a totalitarian regime. Law enforcement agencies took up the task of reviewing their case three times, and on the third attempt, in 1994, the military panel of the Supreme Court reviewed it taking into account new circumstances. The “execution” article about treason against the Motherland was reclassified as articles about military crimes - abuse of power, disobedience and resistance to superiors, which together carried “only” 10 years of imprisonment. At the same time, the judges wrote in a separate line that Sablin and Shein are not subject to full rehabilitation. According to the newspaper "Arguments and Facts", the investigative file also contains a letter from Sablin to his parents, dated November 8, 1975, seized during the search. “Dear, beloved, my good daddy and mommy!” Sablin wrote. “It was very difficult to start writing this letter, since it will probably cause you anxiety, pain, and maybe even indignation and anger towards me... By my actions I am guided by only one desire - to do what is in my power to awaken our people, the good, mighty people of our Motherland, from political hibernation, for it has a detrimental effect on all aspects of the life of our society...”

From Sablin’s Address to the Soviet people, recorded on magnetic tape (transcribed by the KGB investigative bodies):

“Comrades! Listen to the text of the speech we aim to give on radio and television.

First of all, thank you very much for your support, otherwise I would not be talking with you today. Our action is not a betrayal of the Motherland, but a purely political, progressive action, and the traitors to the Motherland will be those who try to stop us. My comrades asked me to convey that in the event of military action against our country, we will defend it with dignity. And now our goal is different: to raise the voice of truth.

We are firmly convinced that many honest people in the Soviet Union have a need to express their views on the internal situation in our country, and with a purely critical plan in relation to the policies of the Central Committee of the CPSU and the Soviet government.

[…] Lenin dreamed of a state of justice and freedom, and not of a state of strict subordination and political lawlessness. […] I think there is no point in proving that at present the servants of society have already turned into masters over society. On this score, everyone has more than one example from life. We are witnessing a game of formal parliamentarism in elections to Soviet bodies and in the performance of their duties by the Soviets. Almost the fate of the entire people is in the hands of the selected elite in the person of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee. The comprehensive concentration of power, political and state, has become a stable and generally accepted fact. The extermination of dissidents during the period of the personality cult of Stalin and Khrushchev played a particularly fatal role in the development of the revolutionary process in our country. And now, for your information, up to 75 people are also arrested annually for political reasons. The belief in the existence of justice in our society has disappeared. And this is the first symptom of a serious illness in society. […] For some reason, it is believed that the people should be content with the facts and be a politically weak-willed mass. But the people need political activity... Tell me, where, in what print media or in radio and television broadcasts is criticism of the leaders allowed? This is out of the question. And we must honestly admit that we do not have a political or public body that would allow us to develop a discussion on many controversial issues of the social, political, economic and cultural development of our country, since everything is under pressure from party and state bodies. The most advanced system in social development in a historically short period of time, 50 years, was refracted into a social system in which the people found themselves in a musty atmosphere of unquestioning faith in orders from above, in an atmosphere of political powerlessness and dumbness, in which the fear of speaking out against the party and others flourishes. government agency, as this will affect personal fate. Our people have already suffered significantly and are suffering due to their political lack of rights. Only a narrow circle of specialists know how much harm the voluntary intervention of state and party bodies has brought and continues to cause in the development of science and art, in the development of the armed forces and the economy, in the solution of national issues and the education of youth.

We, of course, can laugh a million times at the satire of Raikin, the Krokodil magazine, and the film magazine Fitil, but someday tears must appear through laughter about the present and future of the Motherland. It’s time not to laugh anymore, but to bring someone to the national court and ask with all severity for all this bitter laughter. Now a difficult situation has developed in our country: on the one hand, on the external, official side, in our society there is general harmony and social accord, a nation-wide state, and on the other hand, there is general individual dissatisfaction with the existing state of affairs. […] Our performance is only a small impulse, which should serve as the beginning of a surge. […] Will the communist revolution have the character of an acute class struggle in the form of an armed struggle or will it be limited to political struggle? This depends on a number of factors. Firstly, will the people immediately believe in the need for social reforms? And the fact that the way to them is only through the communist revolution. Or will it be a long process of growth in public understanding and political consciousness. Secondly, whether the organizing and inspiring force of the revolution, that is, a new revolutionary party based on a new advanced theory, will be created in the near future. And, finally, how fiercely the leaders will resist the revolution, drown it in the blood of the people, and this largely depends on whose side the troops, police and other armed units will take. One can only theoretically assume that the presence of modern means of information, communications and transport, as well as the high cultural level of the population, extensive experience of social revolutions in the past will allow our people to force the government to abandon violent counter-revolutionary measures and direct the revolution along a peaceful path of development. However, we must never forget that revolutionary vigilance is the basis for the success of struggle in a revolutionary era, and therefore we must be prepared for various turns of history. Our main task at the moment, when throughout the country there is not yet a wide network of revolutionary circles, there are no trade unions, youth, or public ones (and they will grow quickly, like mushrooms after rain), the main task now is to instill in people an unshakable faith in the vital necessity of the communist revolution, that there is no other way, anything else will lead to internal, even greater complications and torment. And the doubts of one generation will still result in a resolution of the next generation, more painful and difficult. This belief in the necessity of revolution will be the rain that will give organizational shoots.

[…] The question immediately arises: who, what class will be the hegemon of the revolution? This will be the class of working, worker-peasant intelligentsia, to which we include, on the one hand, highly qualified workers and peasants, and on the other hand, engineering and technical personnel in industry and agriculture. This class is the future. This is the class that will gradually transform into a classless society after the communist revolution. And who will oppose this class? What is the social face of the enemy? Manager class. It is not numerous, but it has concentrated leadership of the economy, the media, and finances. The entire state superstructure was built on its basis, and it is supported by it. The class of managers includes party and trade union liberated workers, managers of large and medium-sized production teams and shopping centers who successfully use, without, of course, violating Soviet laws, the socialist management system for personal enrichment, personal affirmation in society as an owner, by receiving through state network of additional material and moral benefits. This new system of exploitation through the circulation of capital through the state budget requires further detailed study in order to be exposed and destroyed. […]

And finally, the core issue of any revolution is the issue of power... It is assumed... that, firstly, the current state apparatus will be thoroughly cleansed, and at some points broken up and thrown into the dustbin of history, since it is deeply infected with nepotism, bribery, careerism, arrogant towards the people, secondly, the election system, which turns the people into a faceless mass, should be thrown into the trash heap. Thirdly, all conditions that give rise to omnipotence and lack of control of state bodies by the masses must be eliminated. Will these issues be resolved through the dictatorship of the leading class? Necessarily! Otherwise, the whole revolution will end with the seizure of power - and nothing more. Only through the greatest national vigilance is the path to a society of happiness.” […]

“Now listen to the radiogram that is supposed to be given to the Fleet command about our performance.

Radiogram addressed to the Commander-in-Chief of the USSR Navy. I ask you to urgently report to the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee and the Soviet government that the flag of the coming communist revolution has been raised at the Storozhevoy military-industrial complex.

We demand: first, to declare the territory of the Storozhevoy ship free and independent from state and party bodies within a year.

The second is to provide the opportunity for one crew member, by our decision, to speak on Central Radio and Television for 30 minutes from 21.30 to 22.00 Moscow time every day...

The third is to provide the Sentry ship with all types of provisions according to the standards in any base.

Fourth - to allow the Storozhevoy to anchor and moor at any base and point in the territorial waters of the USSR. Fifth, ensure the delivery and dispatch of “Storozhevoy” mail. Sixth, to allow radio broadcasts of the Storozhevoy radio station on the Mayak radio network in the evening.”

From a tape transcript by KGB investigative agencies:

“EVERYONE! EVERYONE! EVERYONE!

This is the large anti-submarine ship "Storozhevoy" speaking. We are not traitors to the Motherland or adventurers seeking fame by any means necessary. There is an urgent need to openly raise a number of questions about the political, social and economic development of our country, about the future of our people, which require collective, namely nationwide, discussion without pressure from state and party bodies. We decided to make this speech with a clear understanding of responsibility for the fate of the Motherland, with a feeling of ardent desire to achieve communist relations in our society. But we are also aware of the danger of being destroyed physically or morally by the relevant government agencies or hired persons. Therefore, we appeal for support to all honest people in our country and abroad. And if at the time indicated by us, on the day, at 21.30 Moscow time, one of the representatives of our ship does not appear on your TV screens, please do not go to work the next day and continue this television strike until the government gives up its rude trampling on freedom of speech and until our meeting with you takes place.

Support us, comrades! Goodbye",

Help BOD "Storozhevoy"

BOD (later renamed SKR) "Storozhevoy" project 1135 was built in 1973. He was accepted into the first line on June 4, 1974. Length - 123 meters, width - 14 meters, draft - 4.5 meters. Speed ​​- 32 knots. Autonomy: 30 days.

Armament: anti-submarine missile system "Metel" (4 launchers); 2 Osa anti-aircraft missile systems (40 missiles); 2 76-mm two-gun automatic artillery mounts AK-726; 2 x 4 533 mm torpedo tubes; 2 twelve-barrel rocket launchers 12 RBU-6000; Crew - 190 people.

After the Sablin riot, the crew was disbanded, and the ship was sent across the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific oceans to Vladivostok. In July 1987, after repairs in Vladivostok, the TFR was relocated to a permanent duty station in Kamchatka. The name has not changed.

"Storozhevoy" is the most honored of the once large detachment of ships of this project: it covered almost 210 thousand miles, was in combat service 7 times, and participated in the rescue of the crew of the K-429 submarine, which sank in 1983 in Saranaya Bay.

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The patrol ship "Striking" was included in the list of ships of the Navy on 06/05/1974 and on 02/11/1975 it was laid down on Project 1135M on the slipway of the Baltic Shipyard "Yantar" in Kaliningrad (serial number No. 161). Launched on 07/01/1976, entered service on 12/31/1976 and on 02/05/1977, after an inter-fleet transition from Baltiysk to Sevastopol, it was included in the KChF.

Displacement: 3200 tons.

Dimensions: length - 123 m, width - 14.2 m, draft - 4.28 m.

Maximum speed: 32.2 knots.

Cruising range: 5000 miles at 14 knots.

Power plant: 2 gas turbine units of 18,000 hp each. (afterburner mode, cruising mode - 6000 hp each), 2 fixed pitch propellers

Armament: URPK-5 "Rastrub" (4 launchers), 2x2 76.2-mm AK-100 gun mounts, 2x2 "Osa-MA-2" air defense missile launchers (40 9M-33 missiles), 2x4 533-mm torpedo tubes, 2x12 rocket launcher RBU-6000.

Crew: 197 people.

Ship history:

Patrol ship pr. 1135M

The first patrol ship in the series, Project 1135, entered the Russian Navy in December 1970. The new ship had higher seaworthiness compared to its predecessors. It had three times the displacement, the weapons were also more powerful, which gave it higher combat stability when operating in the sea zone.

Project 1135 "Petrel" arose, as it were, at the crossroads of two directions in the evolution of anti-submarine ships of our fleet - small (projects 159 and 35) and large (project 61). At that time, the Soviet Navy entered the world's oceans, and its main task was considered to be the fight against nuclear submarines of a potential enemy. It was then that the first anti-submarine ships of the ocean zone were created - helicopter carrier cruisers, BOD 1st rank and BOD 2nd rank. But their high cost forced the fleet leadership to supplement the arsenal of anti-submarine forces with smaller displacement and less expensive ships in the near zone, which are also capable of operating in remote areas of the ocean.

Initially, the development of the future ship was entrusted to the Zelenodolsk Design Bureau (at that time - TsKB-340). Meanwhile, the industry began to develop new anti-submarine warfare systems - the Metel missile-torpedo system and the Vega and Titan hydroacoustic stations, which were very advanced for their time. The combination of underwater and towed sonar promised to increase the detection range of submarines three times and maintain stable contact with an underwater target at distances of up to 100 kbt. All this brought the future patrol ship to a qualitatively different level, but at the same time entailed a significant increase in displacement. And since TsKB-340 traditionally specialized in the creation of small warships, the development of the project was transferred to Leningrad, to TsKB-53 (later Northern PKB). N.P. was appointed chief designer. Sobolev, the main observer from the Navy - I.M. Stetsyura. General management was carried out by the head of TsKB-53 V.E. Yukhnin.

The tactical and technical assignment (TTZ) for the development of Project 1135 was issued by the fleet in 1964. The main purpose of a patrol ship is “long-term patrolling with the aim of searching for and destroying enemy submarines and guarding ships and vessels during sea passage.” Initially, the TTZ provided for the following armament: one anti-submarine missile system, one five-tube 533-mm TA for anti-submarine torpedoes, two RBU-6000, one Osa air defense system and two twin 76-mm artillery mounts. The Titan GAS was supposed to be the main means of detecting submarines. The displacement was limited to 2100 tons, but after the final approval of the Metel complex as a anti-aircraft missile system, it had to be increased to 3200 tons. This, in turn, made it possible to deploy two TA and two Osa air defense systems, as well as supplement the hydroacoustic means of the towed sonar " Vega". In addition, already at the design stage the possibility of replacing 76 mm artillery with 100 mm was discussed.

For the first time, ships of this class were supposed to have an automated combat information post (CIP), a prototype of future combat information and control systems (CIUS); the lead ship even had a staff of computer officers. In general, the ship, both in size and capabilities, has so outgrown its “classmates” that it was already reclassified as a BOD at the design stage. Project 1135 ships were returned to the SKR class only in June 1977.

In terms of architecture, the hull of the Project 1135 ship was distinguished by an elongated forecastle, rounded contours, a clipper stem, a large camber of the frames at the bow, a flat low stern and construction trim on the bow. The body set is mixed, the length to width ratio is 8.6. A characteristic feature of the contours is the small angles of sharpening of the waterlines. The body is made of MK-35 steel; 13 steel bulkheads divide it into 14 watertight compartments. According to calculations, the ship was supposed to remain afloat when three adjacent or five non-adjacent compartments were flooded. Deck superstructures and internal bulkheads of premises are made of aluminum-magnesium alloy AMG-61.

Service and living quarters are located on the main deck under the forecastle. Here are the officers' and midshipmen's cabins, the galley and the sailors' mess. A through corridor runs along the main deck from the poop to the bow, bifurcating around the air defense missile shafts. In the aft part there is the BUGAS "Vega" room with the original lifting and lowering device POUKB-1. This development of the Zelenodolsk Design Bureau ensures the opening and closing of the transom cover, immersion in water, towing, lifting and installation of the body of the towed sonar while the ship is moving at a speed of at least 9 knots.

The ship's circulation diameter is 4.3 kbt in 130 s at a speed of 32 knots. Yaw - no more than 2°. Inertia from full speed to stop - 1940 m in 524 s. The initial transverse metacentric height is 1.4 m. The highest heeling moment is 85°, buoyancy reserve is 6450 tons. The angle of decline of the static stability diagram is 80°.

The seaworthiness of the "Eleven-Thirty-Fifth" deserves high praise. The ship rides the wave well; There is practically no flooding or splashing at all speeds. Slight splashing of the aft deck is observed only at speeds above 24 knots and in circulation at a heading angle of 90° to the wave. Seaworthiness ensures the use of all types of weapons at all speeds in sea conditions up to four points without pitch stabilizers and more than five points with their inclusion.

The Project 1135 SKR gas turbine power plant includes two M7K units, each of which consists of one DO63 main gas turbine and one DK59 afterburner. Main engines with a power of 6000 hp. mounted on suspended platforms. Afterburners with a capacity of 18,000 hp. are connected to shaft lines through tire-pneumatic couplings. All turbines have gas reverse. An innovation was the main gear attachment, which allows both main engines and each engine separately to operate on both shafts. This improved the efficiency of the power plant by 25%.

The startup time for turbines from a cold state is no more than three minutes. Full fuel reserve - 450-550 tons, fuel consumption per mile at technical and economic speed (14 knots) - 100 kg, at operational and economic speed (17 knots) - 143 kg, at full speed (32.2 knots) - 390 kg. On average, daily fuel consumption on a voyage is about 25 tons. The cruising range at full speed is 1290 miles, operational and economic - 3,550 miles, technical and economic - 5,000 miles.

The propellers are four-blade, low-noise, variable pitch, with a fairing. Each weight is 7650 kg, diameter is 3.5 m. The propeller shaft speed is 320 rpm.

During the design, special attention was paid to reducing the physical fields of the ship and the level of interference with the operation of the sonar system. Two-stage shock absorption of the main mechanisms, vibration-damping coatings were used, and the “Pelena” bubble cloud system was installed. As a result, Project 1135 TFRs had a very low acoustic field level for their time and were the quietest surface ships of the Soviet Navy.

The main weapon of Project 1135 TFR is the URPK-4 Metel anti-submarine guided missile system with the Monsoon autonomous control system. The complex consists of a solid-fuel remote-controlled missile 85R with a warhead - a homing anti-submarine torpedo, launchers, a ship's guidance system and pre-launch automation.

KT-106 launchers have four containers and are aimed in a horizontal plane, which allows an attack to be carried out without additional maneuvering. The URPK-4 fires in two-missile salvoes or single rocket torpedoes supplied by its own sonar and external target designation sources - ships, helicopters or sonobuoys at ranges from 6 to 50 km. The control system allows you to adjust the missile's flight path depending on changes in the current acoustic bearing to the target.

The AT-2UM homing torpedo is used as the warhead of the 85R missile. At the command of the ship's control system, the torpedo at the estimated location of the submarine is separated from the missile and splashed down by parachute, then buried, conducts a circulation search with a homing system and hits the target. The immersion depth of the AT-2UM torpedo is 400 m. The speed in search mode is 23 knots, in guidance mode - 40 knots. Travel range - 8 km. The response radius of the torpedo's active-passive homing system is 1000 m, the mass of the explosive charge is 100 kg.

A further development of the URPK-4 was the URPK-5 "Rastrub" complex with the 85RU rocket torpedo, capable of hitting not only underwater, but also surface targets (this is how they tried to compensate for the lack of anti-ship missiles). In this case, target designation can come from all radar stations of the ship. The warhead of the missile torpedo - the UMGT torpedo - compared to the AT-2UM, has a higher speed and response radius of the homing system.

In addition to the URPK complex, Project 1135 ships received two RBU-6000 Smerch-2 rocket launchers.

The ship is equipped with two Osa-M air defense systems. Short-range anti-aircraft missile systems "Osa" for the ground army and "Osa-M" for the Navy were created according to a single specification and without significant differences. Both modifications of the air defense system use the same 9M33 missile. The complex, in addition to the launcher, includes means for tracking targets, sighting missiles and issuing commands, as well as a detection radar. The detection range of a target flying at an altitude of 3.5 - 4 km is about 25 km, at high altitudes - up to 50 km. It is also possible to receive target designation from a ship's air surveillance radar. The coordinates of the identified target are sent to the tracking system to guide the antenna post by bearing and additional search by elevation. Combining the detection and capture modes reduces the reaction time of the complex by 6 - 8 s.

After the launch of the first missile, the drum rotates, providing access to the loading line of the next missile, and after the launch of the second, the launch beams automatically become vertical, turn to the nearest pair of drums, and the lifting part of the launcher is lowered behind the next pair of missiles. The reloading time of the installation is 16 - 21 s, the rate of fire is 2 rounds/min against air targets, 2.8 against surface targets.

In 1973, an improved version of the Osa-M2 air defense system entered service, and in 1979, the Osa-MA. For the latter, the minimum engagement height decreased from 60 to 25 m. In the first half of the 80s, the complexes were modernized in order to increase the effectiveness of the fight against low-flying anti-ship missiles. The modernized Osa-MA-2 air defense system could hit targets at altitudes of 5 m.

The artillery armament of the Project 1135 SKR is the AK-726-MR-105 artillery complex, consisting of two 76.2 mm twin automated AK-726 artillery mounts. Starting from the 22nd ship of the series, instead of the AK-726-MR-105 complex, the AK-100-MR-145 was installed from two 100-mm single-gun AK-100 artillery mounts.

All TFRs are equipped with two 533-mm four-tube torpedo tubes ChTA-53-1135. The types of torpedoes used are SET-65 or 53-65K. In the aft part of the deck there are mine rails that can carry 16 IGDM-500 mines, 12 KSM or 14 KRAB.

Speaking about the Project 1135 patrol ships, their commanders show rare unanimity in their positive assessment of these ships. Everyone notes high reliability, controllability, seaworthiness, and good living conditions. Minimal differences between production ships indicate optimal design. "Eleven-Thirty-Five" was certainly an example of the most advanced technology of its time. The list of innovations used on it is truly impressive: an original gas turbine power plant, a cruising gear attachment, a keel-mounted and towed sonar, a promising air defense system, a “long arm” for hunting enemy nuclear submarines - the Metel anti-aircraft missile system and much more.

The patrol ship "Striking" was included in the list of ships of the Navy on 06/05/1974 and on 02/11/1975 it was laid down on Project 1135M on the slipway of the Baltic Shipyard "Yantar" in Kaliningrad (serial number No. 161). Launched on 07/01/1976, entered service on 12/31/1976 and on 02/05/1977, after an inter-fleet transition from Baltiysk to Sevastopol, it was included in the KChF.

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Now we only have themfive . (at one time there were more30 ), and it will continue to do soat least a year - until they start joiningThe first "Admirals" were put into operation. A handful of patrolmen who remained after the collapse of the USSR Navy served gloriously (and continuedwishes to serve) the Motherland and deserves the greatest respect, the manifestation of which is this publication. Information about the Black Sea Fleet TFR as of 21.01 p.m. g. received by me from a source who wished to remain anonymous, nearwhom to the Black Sea Fleet, for which I once again express my gratitude to him.

TFR "Neustrashimy" (photo from the newspaper of the Charitable Foundation "Guardian of the Baltic" from yaostrov.ru)

1. TFR " Intrepid " pr. 11540, no. 712 ( BF )

The ship returned to Baltiysk from 7 months of combat service (212 days)17.10.2013 and immediately disappeared from the media's radar. Firstinformation that the TFR was under repair appeared on one of the forums on November 28, after which it was also indicated therethe scene of action is Kaliningrad. Official clarifications from the press service of the Ministry of Defense followed only two months later.(01/24/2014), then the local news portal "Amber Island" joined in. As a result, the following picture emerged.

"Currently, the ship is undergoing dry-dock repairs at the berth of the Yantar Baltic Shipyard forrestoration of technical readiness. The ship will have replacement afterburning engines, auxiliary diesel enginesgenerators. Representatives of the plant will perform medium repairs of all major systems: drainage, fire, fuel,electrical, as well as automation and control systems" ( link 1).

"The Neustrashimy ICR celebrated the New Year 2014, as well as the ship's day (January 24 - A.Sh.) at the berth of the Yantar PSZ...At the moment, the patrol ship is preparing for a major overhaul... It is expected that some weapons systems will be replaced. Repairs of this magnitude have not been carried out on the Neustrashimy since its construction...All work is planned to be completed. in August 2015 . . Two months later . the ship must begin to fulfill the tasks set by the command of the Baltic Fleet" (link 2).

2. TFR " Yaroslav the Wise " pr. 11540, no. 727 ( BF )

The youngest Russian combat ship of the far sea (and ocean) zone - entered service a little more than4.5 years ago (07/19/2009). Since the last (extreme) combat service, which lasted 6.5 months (199 days) returned05.07.2013 and, showingHaving marched on July 28 at the Navy Day parade in Baltiysk, just like the Neustrashimy, it hid from prying eyes for a long time. Fourmonths later (11/22) he unofficially appeared in the media, becoming the object of an excursion of students of the Baltic Shipbuilding College to the Yantar Shipyard (link 3). Later, information that the TFR was under repair was confirmed on the forums, anda week ago from the publication of the same “Amber Island” it became known that “at present, “Yaroslav the Wise” is preparing to pass coursework and go to sea” (link 4).

SKR "Yaroslav the Mudry" at the repair (additional) embankment of the PSZ "Yantar" (photo by Eduard Molchanov, ITAR-TASS)

4. TFR " Inquisitive " pr. 1135M, no. 808 ( Black Sea Fleet )

One of the two remaining in service once numerous TFR project 1135 (32 units built). Age -32 years (11/30/1981). In January 2013, a tender was announced on the Rosoboronpostavka website for the repair of both 1135s based on technical condition with a maximum contract price of 500 million rubles. for each and the order execution date is November of the same year. At the same time, it is known thatOn September 05, the TFR had not yet been delivered to the plant, and on December 30 it had already left there.

Anonymous source: “The SKR “Pytlivy” has not been completely repaired, it has only been brought to the point where it is safe to go to sea.At the moment, finishing work is being carried out on the ship and preparations for a long voyage (obviously, a successful exit was meanton combat duty 05-25.02 in order to ensure the safety of the Olympics in Sochi). Both he and “Ladny” experiencethere are big problems with the power plant (providing the most complete one is impossible in principle) due to severe wear and tear and lack of spare parts.”

TFR "Inquisitive" after repair, Sevastopol, 01/04/2014 (photo by Erne from forums.airbase.ru)

3. TFR " Okay " pr. 1135, no. 801 ( Black Sea Fleet )

Unlike the "Inquisitive" it refers to the basic modification with two dual-gun 76-mm AK-726 guns. Age -33 years (12/29/1980). It is known that on June 26, the TFR was under repair, which, however, was far from complete. Source: "SKR "Ladny"will be under repair until the end of this year. Autumn (October-November) is an optimistic period that is hard to believe.In fact, bringing both Black Sea "Petrel" into seaworthy condition at the same time (code pr. 1135 - A.Sh.)almost impossible."

SKR "Ladny" ("not in the factory, but under repair"), Sevastopol, Ugolnaya Pristan, 10/14/2013 (photo by Petr. Sh from forums.airbase.ru)

5. TFR " Sharp-witted " pr. 61/01090, no. 810 ( Black Sea Fleet )

The oldest warship of the Russian Navy - belongs tofirst (! ) generation BNK, age -44 years old (25.09.1969). 08.02 returned to Sevastopol after a 5-month (149 days) BS in the Mediterranean Sea.

Source: "The SKR "Smart" hull and power plant are in excellent (for its age) condition. No problems that would requireThere are currently no factory repairs on the ship; for the last few years everything has been corrected by the crew." Self-repairing ship "(c). Expected service life - until 2017" (end of quote). There is information that two launches on BS are planned for this year (Pytlivyy808, forums.airbase.ru).

Return of the SKR "Smart" to Sevastopol after the BS in the Mediterranean Sea, 02/08/2013 (photo by Erne from forums.airbase.ru)

Project 50 patrol ships.

Project 50 patrol ships were created as an alternative to Project 42 ships; in comparison with it, this project had a reduced displacement. Lead ship "Ermine".

Patrol ship SKR-5

Patrol ship SKR-5- Built according to project 50. Launched on September 1, 1958, and entered into service on December 31, 1958, and already on January 17, 1959. became part of the Twice Red Banner Baltic Fleet (DKBF). June 30, 1963 mothballed, but on July 1, 1981 reactivated and put back into service.Board numbers: 309, 721(1982), 748.Decommissioned: 1989

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Patrol ship Fog

Patrol ship SKR-52- Built according to project 50. Launched on April 15, 1955, and entered service on November 26, 1955. and already on December 6, 1955. became part of the Black Sea Fleet, and on July 18, 1960. transferred to the Red Banner Northern Fleet (KSF) and in the summer of 1960. made an inter-naval transition around Europe from Sevastopol to Severomorsk. August 8, 1961 renamed "Fog". In 1964 transferred to the Red Banner Baltic Fleet (KBF).Side numbers: 668(Fog), 600(1971), 653(1972), 661(1973), 651(1975), 615(Fog), 732(1989).Decommissioned: 1989

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Patrol ship SKR-60.

Patrol ship SKR-60- Built according to project 50. Launched on April 13, 1956, and entered service on June 29, 1956, and already on July 10, 1956. became part of the Red Banner Baltic Fleet (KBF). October 10, 1956 made the transition around Scandinavia from Baltiysk to Severomorsk, where he was enlisted in the Red Banner Northern Fleet (KSF).

Decommissioned: 1988

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Patrol ship Irkutsk Komsomolets .

Patrol ship SKR-62- Built according to project 50. Launched on June 27, 1956, and entered service on September 25, 1956, and already on October 5, 1956. became part of the Red Banner Baltic Fleet (KBF). February 14, 1957 transferred to the Northern Fleet. In the same year, he made an inter-naval transition around Scandinavia from Baltiysk to Severomorsk, and on July 14, 1957. transferred to the Pacific Fleet (Pacific Fleet). October 27, 1969 renamed to "Irkutsk Komsomolets"

Board numbers: 663(1989).

Decommissioned: 1989

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Patrol ship Komsomol member of Lithuania.

Patrol ship SKR-64- Built according to project 50. Launched on August 1, 1956, and entered into service on October 31, 1956, and already on November 12, 1956. became part of the Red Banner Baltic Fleet (KBF). October 12, 1962 was renamed to "Komsomolets of Lithuania". Board numbers: 642, 717, 752, 541.Decommissioned: 1987

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Patrol ship SKR-68.

Patrol ship SKR-68- Built according to project 50. Launched on October 27, 1956, and entered service on March 23, 1957, and already on April 2, 1957. became part of the Red Banner Baltic Fleet (KBF). October 30, 1960 mothballed, but on October 1, 1972 reactivated and put back into service.Board numbers: 334, 541(1981), 500(1988).Decommissioned: 1989

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Patrol ship SKR-70.

Patrol ship SKR-70- Built according to project 50. Launched on February 19, 1957, and entered into service on June 20, 1957, and already on June 30, 1957. became part of the Northern Fleet (SF) and in the same year made an inter-fleet transition around Scandinavia from Baltiysk to Severomorsk. October 29, 1963 transferred to the Red Banner Baltic Fleet (KBF), and on December 21, 1965. re-entered the Red Banner Northern Fleet (KSF).Board numbers: 901(1978), 906(1990).Decommissioned: 1991

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Patrol ship Arkhangelsk Komsomolets.

Patrol ship SKR-76- Built according to project 50. Launched on December 16, 1957, and entered into service on June 15, 1958, and already on June 28, 1958. became part of the Northern Fleet (SF) and in the same year made an inter-fleet transition around Scandinavia from Baltiysk to Severomorsk. December 25, 1965 transferred to the Twice Red Banner Baltic Fleet (DKBF), and on June 24, 1967. re-entered the Red Banner Northern Fleet (KSF). October 25, 1968 renamed to "Arkhangelsk Komsomolets". Board numbers: 901(1985), 986(1988).Decommissioned: 1989

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Patrol ship Soviet Dagestan.

Patrol ship SKR-77- Built according to project 50. Launched on January 20, 1958, and entered service on June 29, 1958, and already on July 9, 1958. became part of the Northern Fleet (SF) and in the same year made an inter-fleet transition around Scandinavia from Baltiysk to Severomorsk. October 1, 1959 mothballed and laid up, and on July 14, 1961. reactivated and put back into service. February 28, 1969 transferred to the Red Banner Black Sea Fleet (KChF) and in the same year made an inter-fleet transition around Europe from the Kola Bay to Sevastopol. In October 1973, he carried out a combat mission to assist the armed forces of Egypt and Syria. April 19, 1979 renamed to "Soviet Dagestan". August 7, 1979 transferred to the Red Banner Caspian Flotilla. July 12, 1989 transferred to the Arga maritime club in Makhachkala for use for educational purposes.Board numbers: 439, 418(1979), 421(1987).Decommissioned: 1989

This sign is an error - the signature "MT" - minesweeper, should not be there.

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Patrol ship Wolverine.

Patrol ship Wolverine- Built according to project 50. Launched on August 16, 1953, and entered into service on April 30, 1954. and already on May 17, 1954. became part of the Red Banner Northern Fleet (KSF). November 30, 1973 transferred to the Twice Red Banner Baltic Fleet (DKBF).Board numbers: 455(1961), 541, 552?, 639, 717(1978), 540(1984), 507(1984).Decommissioned: 1989

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Patrol ship Bars.

Patrol ship Bars- Built according to project 50. Launched on July 25, 1953. , and entered service on June 30, 1954, and already on June 9, 1955. became part of the Red Banner Northern Fleet (KSF). Decommissioned: 1990

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Patrol ship Cougar.

Patrol ship Cougar- Built according to project 50. Launched on December 31, 1953, and entered into service on August 31, 1954. and already on January 4, 1956. became part of the Twice Red Banner Baltic Fleet (DKBF). March 24, 1958 transferred to the Red Banner Northern Fleet (KSF), and on March 4, 1988. after an inter-fleet transition around Scandinavia from Severomorsk to Baltiysk, it was returned to the DKBF.Board numbers: 325, 587, 857(1968), 959(198).Decommissioned: 1989

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Patrol ship Badger.

Patrol ship Badger- Built according to project 50. Launched on February 27, 1954, and entered service on September 15, 1954. and already on January 4, 1956. became part of the Twice Red Banner Baltic Fleet (DKBF).Board numbers: 272 (1956).Decommissioned: 1980

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Patrol ship Kobchik.

Patrol ship Kobchik- Built according to project 50. Launched on November 2, 1954, and entered service on May 31, 1955. and already on January 4, 1956. became part of the Twice Red Banner Baltic Fleet (DKBF). In November 1985 sold to the Bulgarian Navy and renamed "Baudry". Board numbers: 302, 639(1972), 647(1973), 712, 728(1983), 743(1985). Decommissioned: 1986

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Patrol ship Wolf.

Patrol ship Wolf- Built according to project 50. Launched on July 23, 1953, and entered service on October 31, 1954, and already on November 10, 1954. became part of the Black Sea Fleet (BCF). Since November 1, 1970 to March 1, 1971, carried out a combat mission to assist the Egyptian armed forces. In 1984 took part in the Ocean exercises.Board numbers: 851(1979), 819(1979), 855(1980), 817(1985).Decommissioned: 1988

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Patrol ship Panther.

Patrol ship Panther- Built according to project 50. Launched on August 20, 1952, and entered service on May 21, 1954, and already on May 31, 1954. became part of the Red Banner Black Sea Fleet (KChF). From August 5 to December 15, 1970 carried out a combat mission to assist the Egyptian armed forces. July 7, 1977 was renamed to "Soviet Turkmenistan". June 21, 1977 listed in the KKF. Board numbers: 724, 403 (1981). Decommissioned: 1988

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Patrol ship Jaguar.

Patrol ship Jaguar- Built according to project 50. Launched on February 14, 1953, and entered service on April 24, 1954, and already on April 30, 1954. became part of the Red Banner Black Sea Fleet (KChF). 10/25/1968 was renamed to "Komsomolets of Georgia". At the beginning of June 1967 and October 1, 1970 to March 1, 1971 carried out a combat mission to assist the Egyptian armed forces. Board numbers: 897(1977). Decommissioned: 1987

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Patrol ship Lynx.

Patrol ship Lynx - Built according to project 50. Launched on December 31, 1952, and entered service on May 21, 1954, and already on May 31, 1954. included in the Red Banner Black Sea Fleet (KChF). December 1, 1962 mothballed, but on January 18, 1982 reactivated and put back into service.

Board numbers: 838(05.1985). Decommissioned: 1990

On this day 35 years ago (1975), an anti-government protest took place on the Storozhevoy ship, led by the ship's political officer, Captain 3rd Rank Valery Mikhailovich Sablin.

The speech was quickly suppressed (though there were some hiccups and misunderstandings), and Sablin himself was shot by a military tribunal.
Valery Sablin is a third-generation career naval officer and among political workers he was the “black sheep.” In 1960, Sablin graduated from the oldest Leningrad Higher Naval School named after Frunze in the country as a naval artilleryman and served on ships for 9 years until the rank of lieutenant commander.

V.M. Sablin is a cadet at the LVVMU named after. Frunze

In 1969, he entered the Military-Political Academy, from which he graduated with honors in 1973.

Based on long reflection, Sablin came to realize the depravity of the existing government, when words were at odds with deeds and privileges existed only for the government-party nomenklatura. He developed a (utopian) 30-point program for the reconstruction of Soviet society in order to actually create a society of equality and political freedom. He was going to present the program to the public and the leadership of the USSR. This program at the trial was proof that Sablin “for a long time nurtured plans aimed at achieving criminal goals hostile to the Soviet state: changing the state and social system, replacing the government.”

After the academy, Sablin was sent as a political officer to the Storozhevoy BOD; in April 1975, he was awarded the newly introduced Order “For Service to the Motherland in the Armed Forces of the USSR”, 3rd degree.

Navy Day, 1975 BOD pr.1135 "Storozhevoy". In the first row, fourth from the left, the ship's political officer

captain3rd rank V.M. Sablin, next to him is the ship’s commander, Captain 2nd Rank A.V. Potulny

BOD “Storozhevoy”

Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev

BOD (Large Anti-Submarine Ship) "Storozhevoy" was sent from Severomorsk (Northern Fleet) to Baltiysk, where ammunition was unloaded from it before the upcoming dry-docking (repair), but before that the ship was supposed to take part in the celebration of November 7 in Riga.

The patrol ship pr. 1135 (code "Burevestnik") was designed by the Northern Design Bureau under the leadership of N.P. Soboleva. Work on the ship project began in 1964. Initially, it was classified as a large anti-submarine ship of the 2nd rank and was intended to provide anti-submarine warfare to ship formations and search for enemy submarines in the sea zone, where the effectiveness of ships of Project 35 and Project 159 was low. Since 1979, Project 1135 has been classified as a patrol ship.

Exterior diagram of SKR pr. 1135:

I - security device BOKA-Du; 2 - hangar of the working fluid and the GAS Vega; 3 - PU NURS SPPP PK-16; 4 - 76 mm AU AK-726; 5 - Osa-M air defense missile system launcher; 6 - AP radar SUAO "Turel"; 7 - AP SUO 4R-33; 8 - AP of radio direction finder ARP-50R; 9 - AP radar "Angara-A"; 10 - transmitting antennas of the electronic warfare system “Start”;

II - AP radar "Volga"; 12-AP radar KSUS "Muson"; 13-45 mm spotlight; 14 - optical periscopic sight of the wheelhouse; 15-way cabin; 16-AP radar "Don-2"; 17 - RBU-6000; 18 - PU PLRK "Metel"; 19 - radome of the Titan-2 GAS antenna; 20 - receiving antenna of the electronic warfare system “Start”; 21 - navigation bridge; 22 - 533 mm TA PTA-53-1135; 23 - cargo boat; 24 - mine rails; 25 - six-oar yawl.

Longitudinal section of SKR pr. 1135:

1 - working fluid of GAS "Vega"; 2 - winch POU (POUKB-1) GAS "Vega"; 3 - 76-mm AU AK-726; 4 - turret compartment of the 76-mm AU AK-726; 5 - Osa-M air defense missile system launcher; 6 - SAM cellar and reloading device for the Osa-M air defense missile launcher; 7 - personnel quarters; 8 - posts of the Osa-M air defense system; 9 - chimneys; 10 - AP radar SUAO "Turel"; c AP radar control system of the Osa-M air defense missile system; 12 - RTV posts and high-frequency block enclosures; 13 - storm corridor; 14 - 533 mm TA PTA-53-1135; 15 - AP radar "Angarad"; 16 - AP radar "Volga"; 17 - AP radar KSUS "Muson"; 18 - chart room; 19 - wheelhouse; 20 - corridor of officer's cabins (wardroom); 21 - company cabin; 22 - GKP; 23 - RBU-6000; 24 - fan compartments; 25 - PU PLRK "Metel"; 26 - KSUS “Muson” posts; 27 - room for units and drives of the Metel anti-aircraft missile launcher; 28 - spire compartment; 29 - storage rooms for various purposes; 30 - forepeak; 31 - chain box; 32 - enclosure of the Titan-2 GAS antenna; 33 - hydroacoustic posts; 34 - fresh water tanks; 35 - RSL-60 cellar; 36 - fuel tanks; 37 - compartment for auxiliary mechanisms (energy compartment) and room for the pitch stabilizer; 38 - nasal MO; 39 - power plant remote control cabin; 40 - aft MO; 41 - tiller compartment.

Etc. 1135-21 units.

Basic tactical and technical elements
Displacement, t:

Standard 2810 or 2960 or 3160 - full 3200 or 3455 or 3550

Main dimensions, m: - maximum length (along the overhead line) 123.0 (113.0) - maximum width of the body (along the overhead line) 14.2 (13.2)

Average draft 4.51 or 4.57

Crew, people (including officers) 194 (22)

Autonomy in terms of provisions, 30 days

Power plant:

Type gas turbine with joint operation of sustainer and afterburner gas turbine engines

Number x type of afterburning gas turbine engines (total power, hp) 2 x DK59 (36,000) or DT59 (45,400)

Number x type of main gas turbine engines (total power, hp) 2 x M-62 (10,000) or DS71 (18,000)

Number of propeller shafts x type of propulsors 2 x fixed propellers

Quantity x type (power of EPS current sources, kW) 5 x DG (500 each)

Travel speed, knots: - full 30-32 - economic 14

Cruising range, miles: - 14 knots 3950

Weapons:

Anti-ship missile system:

Type "Uranus"

Number of PU x guides (PU type) 2x4 (TPK)

Ammunition 8 anti-ship missiles ZM-24

Anti-submarine missile system:

Type "Blizzard" or "Rastrub-B"

Number of PU x guides (PU type) 1x4 (KT-106U)

Ammunition 4 PLUR 85-R or 85-RU

KSUS "Muson" or "Muson-U"

Anti-aircraft missile system:

Quantity x type 2 x “Osa-M” or “Osa-MA”

Number of PU x guides (PU type) 2x2 (ZIF-122)

Ammunition 40 SAM 9M-ZZM

Quantity x type of control system 2 x 4R-33

Artillery complex:

Number of AU x barrels (AU type) 2 x 2 - 76/60 (AK-726)

Ammunition 1600 rounds

SUAO "Turel" (MP-105)

Anti-submarine:

Number of TA x pipes (type TA) 2 x 4-533 mm (PTA-53-1135)

Ammunition 8 torpedoes 53-65K or SET-65

KSUS "Dragon-1135"

Number of RVU x barrels (RVU type) 2 x 12 - 213 mm (RBU-6000)

Ammunition 96 RGB-60

Radioelectronic:

POTO "Tablet-35"

General detection radar "Angara-A" (MR-310A) or "Fregat-MA"

Navigation radars "Volga" (MR-310U) + "Don-2"

Laser warning system "Spectrum-F"

Electronic warfare system "Start" (MP-401)

KRS set of tools or "Buran-6"

Number of PU x pipes (PU type) SPPP 4 x 16 - 82 mm (PK-16) or 2 x 16 - 82 mm (PK-16) + 8 x 10 - 122 mm (PK-10)

GAS with an antenna in the radome "Titan-2" (MG-332)

GAS with antenna in a towed fairing "Vega" (MG-325)

SJSC "Zvezda-M1"

Sablin decides to use the ship's radio equipment as a platform to present his program. According to his calculations, the lack of ammunition should have indicated the peaceful intentions of the rebels.
The performance was scheduled for November 8th. At 21:40 the crew was assembled in a large gathering, the ship’s commander, Captain 2nd Rank A.V. Potulny - isolated.
Sablin (Soviet Lieutenant Schmidt) told the crew the plan of action: “Storozhevoy” will go to Kronstadt and then to Leningrad to start a revolution there to correct many mistakes made by the country’s leadership.

Sablin was confident that the speech of “Storozhevoy” would be supported by military sailors in Kronstadt and the Leningrad naval base, as well as by workers of Leningrad factories and enterprises, to whom Sablin (having obtained the right to speak on television from the government of the country) intended to present his views and plans .

About half of the crew supported Sablin, while those who disagreed were locked in the lower rooms of the ship. However, mechanic officer Firsov (non-staff secretary of the ship's Komsomol Committee) managed to move to a neighboring submarine and inform its commander about the mutiny on the BOD.
At midnight the ship left the mouth of the Daugava. When asked by the border guards about the purpose of the exit, the Watchdog responded with a ratier (signal spotlight): “We are not traitors, we are going to Kronstadt.”

Having gone to sea, Sablin sent an encrypted message to the Commander-in-Chief of the USSR Navy Gorshkov: “The Watchdog” did not betray either the flag of the Motherland or itself, it is heading to Leningrad in order to obtain the opportunity to appear on television with an appeal to the workers of Leningrad and the country, and also invites to the free territory of the ship members of the government and the Central Committee of the party to present to them a specific program with demands for a fair social reorganization of society.”

Sergei Georgievich Gorshkov

At the same time, on many frequencies, the ship transmitted in clear text: “Everyone! Everyone! Everyone! The banner of the coming communist revolution has been raised at the Storozhevoy BOD!”

rebellious “Watchman”

Raised from bed, General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev ordered “to stop the rebels at any cost and, as a last resort, to sink the ship.” The commander of the Baltic Fleet sent a radiogram to the ship: “We will not let you out of Irben. If you disobey, we will destroy you!..”
The first to receive this command were the border ships accompanying the Sentry. They demanded to stop the ship, threatening to use weapons. Using an outdoor speakerphone, Sablin explained his intentions to the border guard sailors. After listening, they did not use weapons against the unarmed ship. Aircraft used weapons...
On November 9, at about three o'clock in the morning, the 668th Bomber Aviation Regiment (equipped with the Yak-28P), based at the Tukums airfield two dozen kilometers from Jurmala, was raised on combat alert.

Tukums airfield

Yak-28P

Modification
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Aircraft length, m
Height, m
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Weight, kg
normal takeoff
maximum takeoff
Engines	2 TRDR-11AF2-300	2 TRDR-11AF2-300
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at high altitude
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Practical ceiling, m
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Crew, people
Weapons:	23-mm double-barreled gun GSh-23, 2 UR "air-to-air" K-8M-1 or K-13 or K-98, 2 UR R-30 or R-3 (R-60)	23-mm double-barreled gun GSh-23, (ammunition 90 shells) on four external hardpoints could be placed on air-to-air missiles Standard weapons ≈ K-8M-1 or K-13 or K-98 missiles, and 2 Р-30 or Р-3 (Р-60) missiles .

The encryption received from the Air Force Headquarters stated that a foreign warship (URO destroyer - guided missile weapon), which was located in the Gulf of Riga, had invaded the territorial waters of the Soviet Union. Task: the regiment be ready to launch an air strike on the ship with the aim of destroying it.

To accomplish such a task, it was necessary to use high-explosive bombs, preferably 500 kg caliber. And under the planes, on alert, air bombs of the first ammunition load were suspended - OFAB-250Sh (high-explosive fragmentation of 250 kg caliber).

The aircraft bomb has a built-in parachute-type braking device. Bombing can be carried out from aircraft from altitudes of 150-500 m at flight speeds of 700-1500 km/h from horizontal flight, from a dive and pitch-up, the minimum angle of encounter between an aerial bomb and an obstacle for given bombing modes is 0=35 degrees.
The OFAB-250Sh air bomb arrives in units equipped with a telescopic fusing device TVU.
Basic data of the air bomb:
Air bomb length - 1560 mm; Case diameter - 325 mm; Stabilizer span - 410 mm;
The mass of the finally equipped aerial bomb, prepared for suspension, is 275 kg;
Weight of explosive charge (TG-20) - 99 kg;
Filling factor - 28%;
The critical descent speed of an aerial bomb with a parachute system is 50 m/s;
The area of ​​the main parachute canopy is 2 m2;
Extension length - 600 mm
TVU weight - 3.3 kg
The long-range cocking time of the TVU is 2.4-3.6 seconds.
The length of the TVU warning rod (in the extended position) is 1.5 m.

OFAB-250SH

There were heavy bombs in the regiment, but they were stored in the warehouse in the third ammunition load (in the original packaging). And since the air strike on the ship was going to be carried out conditionally, the bombs of the third set were suspended on the planes conditionally, leaving the ones that were already there. The pilots received orders to carry out the first bombing not on the ship, but ahead of it along the course.

This is how Major General Tsymbalov describes the operation: “The bomber crew, searching in the estimated area where the Storozhevoy was located, almost immediately discovered a large surface target within the boundaries of the search area, reached it at a given altitude of 500 meters, identified it visually in in the haze as a warship the size of a destroyer and carried out pre-emptive bombing along the ship's course, trying to place a series of bombs closer to the ship. If the bombing had been carried out at a training ground, it would have been rated “excellent” - the points where the bombs fell did not go beyond the mark of a circle with a radius of 80 meters. But a series of bombs did not land in front of the ship, but undershot along a line exactly through its hull. The assault bombs, when the rods came into contact with the water, exploded almost above its surface, and a sheaf of fragments ricocheted directly into the side of the ship, which turned out to be a Soviet cargo ship that had left the port of Ventspils a few hours earlier
The mistake became clear quite quickly: the cargo ship began sending a distress signal in radiotelegraph and radiotelephone modes, accompanied by clear text: a bandit attack in the territorial waters of the Soviet Union. The ships of the Baltic Fleet and the KGB Border Troops received these signals and reported on command. This ship gave a distress signal for more than an hour, until one of the warships approached it. It is known that there were no killed or wounded on board, and repairing the damage to the ship cost the Ministry of Defense a tanker of rectified alcohol and a five-ton truck of oil paint.”
When the Sentry was discovered and attacked by a bomber, Sablin managed to maneuver and evade the attack. The plane received a command to destroy the ship and launched a second attack. Sablin tried not to expose the side of the ship, fearing top-mast bombing (he did not know that the bomber did not have the necessary aerial bombs, which are used for this method of bombing).

The first bomb of the series hit right in the middle of the deck on the ship's quarterdeck, destroying the deck covering during the explosion and jamming the rudder. Other bombs in the series flew over and damaged the rudder and propellers. The ship began to describe a wide circulation.
At this time, a train of 18 bombers was already approaching the event area. The first crew of the regiment's column jumped onto one of the pursuing ships and immediately attacked it, mistaking it for rebels.

The attacked ship dodged the bombs, but responded with fire from all its anti-aircraft guns. The ship fired a lot, but missed.

After the bombing, the determination of the Storozhevoy crew to support Sablin disappeared.

There was no armed resistance from the Storozhevoy crew to the special forces. The ship was towed to an anchorage off the Sõrve Peninsula, the southern tip of the island of Saarema, where the entire crew of the Storozhevoy was taken off board and arrested. Sablin, wounded and cuffed in massive handcuffs, was helped off the ship by two sailors, one of whom, turning to those present, said: “Remember him for the rest of your life. This is a real commander, a real officer of the Soviet fleet!” These words were spoken very quietly, but in that mournful silence his voice sounded like a spell.

They released the locked commander of the ship, Potulny, who described the subsequent events as follows: “Foreman 1st article Kopylov with the sailors (Stankevichus, Lykov, Borisov, Nabiev) pushed Shein away, knocked out the stop and freed me.

A. Shein

I took a pistol, the rest armed themselves with machine guns and two groups - one from the side of the tank, and I along the internal passage - began to climb onto the bridge. Seeing Sablin, the first impulse was to shoot him right away, but then the thought flashed: “He will still be useful to justice!” I shot him in the leg. He fell. We went up to the bridge, and I announced on the radio that order had been restored on the ship.”

The Kremlin leaders dealt with the organizers of the rebellion with monstrous cruelty. Captain 3rd rank Valery Sablin, by the verdict of the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR on July 13, 1976, was sentenced to death - execution.

His last word in court was laconic. He did not ask for mercy, did not promise to atone for his guilt with his work. Here are his words: “I love life. I have a family, a son who needs a father. That’s it.”

The verdict was not subject to appeal or protest. On August 3, 1976, the sentence was carried out. Only six months later were his relatives notified of his death - when his prematurely deceased father was no longer alive, when his terminally ill mother was bedridden.

V.M. Sablin with his wife Nina Mikhailovna and son

Sablin brothers: Boris, Valery, Nikolai

Sailor Alexander Shein, who served his entire sentence, was sentenced to eight years in prison. Many officers of the Riga Naval Garrison who were related (most often indirectly) to the events described did not escape repression: they were early dismissed from the Navy without severance pay or pensions.

The Sentry crew was disbanded, the ship was renamed and transferred to the Pacific Fleet. The naval “special officers” took all measures to ensure that the mutiny was forgotten.

mutinous ship off the coast of Kamchatka