Moskva (guided missile cruiser)

Moskva

The Moscow River 2007

Ship data flag  Soviet Union Russia   other ship names Slava Ship type Guided missile cruiser class Project 1164 Callsign RJT22 Shipyard Shipyard 61 Mykolaiv Build number 2008 Keel laying 5th November 1976 Launch July 27, 1979 Commissioning February 7, 1982 Whereabouts in service

Ship dimensions and crew length 187 m ( Lüa ) width 20.8 m Draft Max. 7.9 m displacement empty: 9,500 t Use: 11,500 t   crew 610 men

Machine system machine COGOG 4 × main turbines 2 × auxiliary turbines Machine performance 4 × 30,000 PS (22,065 kW) 2 × 12,000 PS (8,826 kW) Top speed 32.5 kn (60 km / h) propeller 2

Armament 8 × 2 starters for P-500 Basalt 8 × 8 starters for 3PK (S-300) 2 × 2 starters for 4K33 Osa-M 1 × 2 130mm L / 70 AK-130 6 × 30mm L / 54 AK-630 2 × RBU-6000 2 × 5 533-mm torpedo tubes

Furnishing helicopter 1 × Ka-25 or Ka-27

The Moskva ( Russian "Москва" ) is a guided missile cruiser of Project 1164 of the Russian Navy . She was built at the shipyard in Nikolaev and in 1982 under the name Slawa ( Russian "Слава" ) put into service with the Soviet Navy . The ship is the lead ship of the class, from the NATO as Slava is called class. The name Slava was changed by the Russian Navy to the traditional name Moskwa , which a flight deck cruiser from Project 1123 had previously carried.

Mission history

American officers visit the Slav in advance of the 1989 Malta Summit .

Moscow River (2009)

After its commissioning in 1982, the ship served in the Black Sea Fleet . In 1989 the cruiser was used in the Mediterranean. At that time, US President George Bush and Soviet head of state Mikhail Gorbachev agreed a summit meeting in Malta , at which the rounds of talks were to be held alternately on the ships of the two nations. The USA sent the cruiser Belknap , the Soviet Union the Slava . The ships did not dock at the quay, but lay in the roadstead . When a storm broke out, Gorbachev, on the advice of his advisors, refused to go to the Slava in a small motorboat , so the meeting took place on the passenger ship Maxim Gorkiy , which had docked in the port. In order to raise the morale of the occupation, the Soviet armed forces spread the rumor among their soldiers that the American president was seasick .

In the course of the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 there were no more funds for a necessary overhaul of the ship and its scrapping was planned. The mayor of Moscow intervened and obtained the funds for modernization and maintenance from the city budget. The cruiser was put back into service in 2000 after the completion of the work and testing and is the flagship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet .

As a result, the Moskva carried out several missions and fleet visits, including a visit to Cannes in France in 2000 and an operation in the context of the Caucasus War in 2008.

In September 2009 there was a generator fire in an engine room, which the Russian press initially rated as a bomb attack.

On a trip to the Caribbean, the cruiser visited Havana in Cuba on August 4, 2013 and La Guaira in Venezuela on August 27 . The visit was scheduled until August 29th. Thereafter, the cruiser and its escort ships headed for the Strait of Gibraltar to join the Russian fleet patrolling the Mediterranean. However , according to fleet chief Admiral Tschirkow, there was no connection with the US fleet deployment in the wake of the escalation of the Syrian civil war . On November 11, 2013, she was replaced by the cruiser Pyotr Veliki in the role of the flagship of the Mediterranean flotilla and returned to Sevastopol.

Counter-terrorism mission

The Moskva was involved in the anti-terrorist mission against IS in the Mediterranean with the flagship of the French Navy , the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle . On November 25, 2015, the Moscow River arrived off the coast of Latakia ( Syria ) to protect the Russian air forces .

literature

• С.С. Бережной: Советский ВМФ 1945-1995 Крейсера - большие противолодочные корабли, эсминцы (about: SS Bereschnoi: Soviet Navy 1945-1995 cruisers, large anti-submarine ships, destroyers.. ) Moscow 1995 (Russian)

Web links

Commons : Moskva (ex. Slava )  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Side of the Black Sea Fleet to the Moskva River (Russian)
• Private website for the ship (Russian)

Footnotes

1. ↑ Constantine Pleshakov : There Is No Freedom Without Bread !: 1989 and the Civil War That Brought Down Communism , Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009, p. 211
2. ↑ Оксана Бойко: "Москва" в дыму (Moskva in smoke) , Взгляд.ру (vz.ru) from September 9, 2009, viewed on August 29, 2013.
3. ^ Ria Novosti: Russian Warships Arrive in Cuba on Official Visit - Report , August 4, 2013, viewed on August 27, 2013.
4. ^ Ria Novosti: Russian Warships Dock at Venezuelan Port for Visit , August 27, 2013, viewed on August 27, 2013.
5. ↑ AAfP: Russia sending warships to the Mediterranean: report ( Memento from August 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), Yahoo News, August 29, 2013, viewed on August 29, 2013.
6. ^ Ria Novosti: Russian Med Fleet Redeployment 'Not Linked' to Syria - Navy , August 29, 2013, sighted on August 29, 2013.
7. ↑ Ria Novosti: "Nuclear Cruiser Leads Russian Task Force in Mediterranean" from November 11, 2013, viewed on November 11, 2013
8. ↑ AP: "Russia: Joint Syria Operation With France Developing" New York Times of November 18, 2015
9. ↑ Russian missile cruiser arrived at Latakia: "Safe air space". International News Agency Rossiya Segodnya, November 25, 2015, accessed on November 25, 2015 (German): " According to the minister, the missile cruiser" Moskwa "has arrived at the new location off the coast of Latakia and is ready to" destroy any air target that was hit by potential threat to our air forces ”. "