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Admiral Levchenko


Admiral Levchenko. Photo from battleships-cruisers.co.uk

Admiral Levchenko is a Project 1155 large ASW ship.

REGISTRATION

Severomorsk, Northern Fleet

CONSTRUCTION, NAME

The ship was laid down on January 27, 1982 at Zhdanov Shipyard (now called Severnaya Verf Shipyard) in Leningrad under the name of Khabarovsk; on May 24, 1982 it was renamed to Admiral Levchenko, launched on February 21, 1985, commissioned on May 1, 1989.

MILESTONES

In 1999-2001 the ship was under overhaul at Severnaya Verf Shipyard.

On December 5, 2008 the ship sailed off to distant cruise and called official visits to ports of Turkey, Portugal and Syria, kept antipiracy watch at the Gulf of Aden, took part in Russo-Turkish exercise TURRUS-2009 on January 5-8, 2009. Admiral Levchenko returned to Severomorsk on March 24.

PERFORMANCE AND DIMENSIONS

Speed: 29.5 knots, cruising – 14 knots
Crew: 293 men
Total displacement: 7,480 tonnes
Standard displacement: 6,840 tonnes
Length: 163 meters
Beam: 19 meters
Draft: 7.8 meters

ARMAMENT

2 x 4-container launchers of Rastrub rocket torpedo system
6-26 mines
8 Kinzhal SAM launchers (64 missiles)
2 x 100-mm AK-100 gun mounts
4 x 6-barreled 30-mm machineguns AK-630M
RBU-6000 antisubmarine rocket launchers
2 Ka-27 helicopters