Kostjantyn Olschanskyj (ship)
 The Kostjantyn Olschanskyj during a landing exercise
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The Kostjantyn Olschanskyj (U402) ( Russian Костянтин Ольшанський ) is a large landing ship (Landing Ship, Tank - LST) of Project 775. Her home port is the naval base in Nowooserne on the Crimean peninsula on the Black Sea .
The Kostjantyn Olschanskyj is named after the hero of the Soviet Union Konstantin Fjodorowitsch Olschanski .
technology
For detailed information, see the article on ship class : Project 775
history
period of service
- 1985–1991 Soviet Union
- 1991–1996 Russia
- 1996-2014 Ukraine
- since 2014 Russia
construction
The ship was built in 1985 at the Polish shipyard Stocznia Północna in Gdansk .
In the Black Sea Fleet
From 1985 to 1991 the ship belonged to the Black Sea Fleet of the Soviet Navy as BDK-56 . In 1991 it was taken over as Konstantin Olschanski in the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Navy . There it served until the units of the former Soviet Black Sea Fleet were redistributed in 1996, when it was handed over to the Ukrainian Black Sea Fleet.
At the turn of the year 1993–1994, Konstantin Olschanski evacuated more than 4,000 refugees from the area of the Georgian - Abkhaz conflict, many of whom were in critical health, including from gunshot wounds. During the evacuation, the ship had to defend itself against an attack by Abkhaz paramilitaries with armed boats.
In the Ukrainian Navy - Kostjantyn Olschanskyj
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On March 27, 1996, the ship officially became part of the Naval Forces of Ukraine. It kept its name, now in Ukrainian spelling.
From August 28 to October 18, 1996, she and the frigate Hetman Sahajdachny visited Norfolk in the United States . During the crossing, it took part in exercises in the Mediterranean together with other Ukrainian ships and units of the US Navy , the Greek , Turkish and Italian navies .
From March 22, 2011, the ship took part in the first real combat operation of the naval forces of Ukraine. The Kostjantyn Olschanskyj evacuated 193 people from the Libyan civil war area in Tripoli during the international military operation in Libya , 79 of whom were deported to Malta on April 4, 2011. On April 11, the ship arrived with the rest of the refugees from Ukraine and the CIS countries in the home port in Sevastopol.
In July 2012 it took part in the joint exercise Sea Breeze 2012 in Odessa together with the US Navy .
Crimean crisis
In the course of the Crimean crisis in March 2014, Russian troops gained access to the Ukrainian naval base near Nowooserne and blocked access to the sea by sinking the cruiser Ochakov and other ships. Most of the Ukrainian ships in the port were stormed or their crews asked to overflow. The Kostjantyn Olschanskyj and two minesweepers then left their berth and evaded Russian access. Without the possibility of running into the Black Sea, Commander Dmytro Kowalenko had the ship anchored in the middle of the Donuslav Lake . On March 24, 2014, the ship was stormed by Russian troops. Russia began returning warships and other military equipment to Ukraine in the summer of 2014, but this was stopped because of the civil war in eastern Ukraine. As of July 6, 2015, Kostjantyn Olschanskyj was still under Russian control.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Fleet photos, Kostyantyn Olshansky accessed on December 6, 2013, (Russian)
- ↑ U-402 ( Memento from December 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) accessed on December 6, 2013, (Ukrainian)
- ^ "Kostyantyn Olshansky" landed in Malta ( Memento from December 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on December 6, 2013, (Russian)
- ^ Government portal : "Konstantin Olshansky" with 193 passengers on board left the Libyan port of Tripoli , accessed on December 6, 2013, (Russian).
- ↑ Julia Smirnowa: The last ship that resists the Russians. welt.de, March 24, 2014; accessed March 24, 2014
- ↑ Russian troops storm Ukrainian warship. Berner Zeitung, March 24, 2014
- ↑ Kyiv hopes for return of naval ships remaining in Crimea. In: en.interfax.com.ua. Retrieved August 6, 2016 .
Remarks
- ↑ The Polish-language Wikipedia has an article on the shipyard under Remontowa Shipbuilding