Modern (destroyer)

Laid at the factory number 190 named. A. A. Zhdanov March 3, 1976 (building number 861), launched November 18, 1978 . The godmother of the ship is Galina Pozdeeva. Passed mooring tests from December 27, 1979 to August 4, 1980 , factory sea trials from August 5, 1980 to November 14, 1980 , state tests from November 15, 1980 to December 25, 1980 , accepted by the fleet on December 25, 1980, February 23 In 1981, the Soviet Navy flag was hoisted on a ship; on January 24, 1981, the destroyer joined the Soviet Navy . For the construction period, it was included in the 13 brigade of ships under construction and under repair (13 brströms) of the Leningrad Naval Base , for the test period it was included in the 76th brigade of missile ships of the 12th missile ship division based on the Liepaja naval base ^{[ 1]} .

Ship Service 1981-1984

On December 30, 1981 , according to the plan for testing naval weapons, he left Liepaja for the Mediterranean Sea and on January 12, 1982 arrived in Sevastopol . During the test period at the artillery range, one of the trunks of the bow of the 130-mm artillery mount AK-130 broke. July 24, 1982 left Sevastopol, August 6, arrived in Severomorsk and became part of the Northern Fleet . On March 20, 1983, together with the cruiser Alexander Nevsky, the Soobrazitelny BOD, and the Desperate and Experienced destroyers, they completed an excellent educational mine setting ^[1] .

Since April 15, 1983, he participated in air defense exercises as part of a group of 8 ships ( TARKR Kirov , BPC Admiral Yumashev , Burning, Thundering , destroyers Desperate, Experienced and Dangerous). From March 31 to April 8, 1984, the ship as part of KUG-1 (ship strike group No. 1) took part in the exercises " Atlantic-84 ", from 10 to 13 April took part in the exercises " Polar-84 ", from 19 to 25 April - in the exercises " Squadron-84 ", in October of the same year took part in exercises to refine the interaction of ship units ^[1] .

Ship Service 1985-1988

Since January 15, 1985, the ship carried out military service in the Mediterranean Sea together with TAKR “Kiev”, the missile cruiser “Vice Admiral Drozd”, the BPC “Marshal Tymoshenko” and “Slender” and the destroyer “Desperate” . During a friendly visit to the port of Split ( Yugoslavia ), the destroyer damaged the left propeller ; On June 4, 1985, the ship, having covered 19985 nautical miles during the campaign, returned to Severomorsk . During the competitive artillery firing of the KUG ships of the 56th destroyer destroyer brigade of the 7th operational squadron, held on October 9, 1986 , the ship won the Navy Civil Artillery Prize as a part of the KUG ^[1] . From August 28 to September 26, 1988, together with the Stroyny BOD, he supervised the NATO Team Work-1988 exercises in the Norwegian Sea , tracking the Forrestol American aircraft carrier for 53 hours ^[2] .

Conclusion to the reserve and disbandment

On December 15, 1988, the destroyer Sovremenny was put into the 2nd category reserve. On May 25, 1989, the shipyard No. 35 (Rosta) was put up for repair and modernization, but due to insufficient funding, modernization was extremely slow. As a result, after 1991, it was decided to exclude the ship from the lists of the fleet, which happened on November 15, 1998 , on the same day a naval flag was lowered on the ship. The technical readiness of the destroyer as of August 1, 1997 was 72%, by the time of cancellation - 86%. Dismantled in Murmansk in 2003 ^[2] .

• Since May 21, 1979 - Captain 1st Rank Lyzhenkov, German Alexandrovich ^[2] .
• Since September 9, 1986 - the captain of the 2nd rank Butenko, Vladimir Borisovich.
• Since March 12, 1987 - captain of the 2nd rank Fomin, Vladimir Alekseevich.
• Since October 25, 1988 - Captain 2 ranks Tymoshenko, Vyacheslav Alexandrovich.
• Since November 10, 1989 - the captain of the 2nd rank Nashutinsky, Boris Nikolaevich
• Since March 15, 1993 - captain of the 2nd rank (later captain of the 1st rank) Kostromitsky, Pavel Dmitrievich.

• During the service, the destroyer changed a number of the following side numbers ^[2] :
• 1980 - No. 670.
• 1981 - No. 760.
• 1982 - No. 618, 680, 402, 426
• 1984 - No. 441.
• 1988 - No. 431.
• 1990 - No. 420.

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• Pavlov A.S. Destroyers of the 1st rank. - Yakutsk: Sakhapoligrafizdat, 2000 .-- 42 p.

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