Marshal Ustinov leaving Norfolk, Virginia, 1989 |
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| Name: | Marshal Ustinov |
| Laid down: | 1978 |
| Launched: | April 1982 |
| Commissioned: | 1986 |
| Status: | in active service, as of 2012[update] |
| Class and type: | Slava-class cruiser |
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 "Guards Missile Cruiser". She is named after Dmitriy Ustinov a former Soviet Minister of Defence.
The Marshal Ustinov is assigned to the 43rd Missile Ship Division of the Russian Northern Fleet, whose homeport and the Fleet HQ is in Severomorsk.
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.
In March 2011 it was reported that the Marshal Ustinov could be transferred to the Russian Pacific Fleet.[1]
The Marshal Ustinov has been known to carry two other hull numbers than her original (which was 070); 088 and 055.
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