Soviet destroyer Sovremenny

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Sovremenny was the lead ship of Sovremenny-class destroyers of the Soviet and later Russian navy. The project began in the late 1960s when it was becoming obvious to the Soviet Navy that naval guns still had an important role particularly in support of amphibious landings, but existing gun cruisers and destroyers were showing their age. A new design was started, employing a new 130 mm automatic gun turret. The ships were 156 metres (512 ft) in length, with a beam of 17.3 metres (56 ft 9 in) and a draught of 6.5 metres (21 ft 4 in). Sovremenny was laid down on 3 March 1976 and launched on 18 November 1978 by Zhdanov Shipyard in Leningrad. She was commissioned on 25 December 1980. From 15 January 1985, the ship was on active service in the Mediterranean Sea together with the aircraft carrier Kiev, the cruisers Vitse-Admiral Drozd and Marshal Timoshenko, and the destroyer Otchayanny. During a friendly visit to the port of Split, Yugoslavia, she damaged her port propeller By 4 June 1985, on returning to Severomorsk, she had sailed 19,985 nautical miles. During the competitive artillery fire of the ships of the KUG of the 56th destroyer brigade of the 7th operational squadron, which was held on 9 October 1986, she won the Navy Main Committee Prize for artillery training as part of the KUG. On 15 December 1988, Sovremenny was put into the 2nd category reserve.