Russian cruiser Marshal Ustinov
- Russian cruiser Marshal Ustinov
The RFS "Marshal Ustinov" , "Маршал Устинов", is a "Slava" class cruiser of the Russian Navy. The Russian name for the ship type is "Gvardeysky Raketnyy Kreyser" (GRKR), meaning "Large Missile Cruiser". She is named after Dmitriy Ustinov a former Soviet Minister of Defence.
History
Hull number 070 was laid down at the 61 Kommuna #445 Yard, Mykolaiv (Nikolayev) in 1978 as the second "Slava" class ship. She was launched in 1982 and commissioned in the Soviet Red Banner Northern Fleet four years later in 1986.
In 1994, then commissioned in the Russian Northern Fleet, the "Marshal Ustinov" was laid up somewhere in the Baltic awaiting extensive repairs. In December 1996, the People's Republic of China bought two "Sovremenny" class destroyers, and the income from this sale made it possible to pay for the $169 million repairs to the "Ustinov".
The "Marshal Ustinov" has been known to carry two other hull numbers than her original (which was 070); 088 and 055.
External links
* [http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ship/row/rus/1164.htm FAS.org]
* [http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/russia/1164.htm GlobalSecurity.org]
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