Laid down 21 July 1972 Decommissioned 1998 Construction started 21 July 1972 Length 173 m | Commissioned 25 December 1975 Fate Scrapped in 2000 Displacement 8,900 tons Launched 14 September 1973 Weight 9,043 tons | |
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Builders Shipyard named after 61 Communards, Mykolaiv | ||
Azov was a Kara-class missile cruiser of the Soviet and later Russian Navy.
History
Azov was laid down on 21 July 1972, launched on 14 September 1973 and was commissioned on 25 December 1975. The ship was stationed in the Black Sea Fleet. In 1977 the ship was modified to carry the new S-300F (SA-N-6) anti-air missile complex. The first vertical launching system in the world was installed on the cruiser.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union the ship became a part of the Russian Navy. There the cruiser served until 1998, when the ship was decommissioned and scrapped in 2000.
References
Russian cruiser Azov Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA