Resourceful (Destroyer)

Enrolled in the lists of the Navy of the USSR on April 29, 1954 . Laid at the plant number 190 to them. A. A. Zhdanov October 19, 1955 (building number 741), launched on October 30, 1956 . The ship was received by the fleet on September 18, 1956 , on September 26, 1957, the Soviet naval flag was raised on the ship, on November 15 the destroyer joined the Soviet Navy ^[1] .

After passing the acceptance tests in Kronstadt and Baltiysk on November 15, 1957, the destroyer Resourceful arrived in Severomorsk . On the way, for the first time the ship carried out in the Skagerrak Strait, receiving fuel on the move at 14 knots. In August 1959, the ship took part in submarine search exercises, on December 7, 1960 it was repaired in Kronstadt. after the completion of the repair, arrived on April 9, 1962 in the Northern Fleet and became part of the 170th BEM . From July 1 to July 25 and from August 30 to September 28, Resourceful, together with the destroyer Moskovsky Komsomolets , took part in naval exercises in the Norwegian Sea . From June 18 to July 7, 1965, the destroyer set sail to search for American SSBNs as part of the Pechora exercise, from August 7 to October 2, he performed military service in the Mediterranean Sea, after which he switched to the Black Sea Fleet , where from December 25 1965 to November 6, 1966 was upgraded by the project 56-A; December 25, 1966 transferred to the Navy ^[1] .

From January 1 to July 1967 and from August 1 to December 31, 1968, the destroyer provided the Soviet naval presence in Egypt and tracked the US Navy AUG in the Arab-Israeli conflict zone. March 31, 1969 the ship entered the 150th DBK 30th di PLC . From August 9 to 12, visited the Bulgarian port of Varna . Participated from 9 to 27 April 1970 in large-scale naval maneuvers " Ocean-70 " ^[1] .

Together with the Admiral Golovko missile cruiser and the Krasnodar Komsomol patrol ship “Resourceful”, from 3 to 7 August 1973, under the flag of Vice-Admiral B. Y. Yamkovo made a visit to Constance . In the same year, the ship had an emergency situation in the cellar of Zour. From 16 to 22 April of the following year, the destroyer flying under the flag of Rear Admiral V. I. Akimov as part of a detachment of ships (the cruiser Sverdlov and a submarine) paid a visit to Algeria . In 1975, “Resourceful” carried out military service in the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, visited Tunisia (August 21-26), made calls at the ports of Algeria, Yugoslavia and Bulgaria. In August-September 1976, the ship participated in the military escort of the heavy aircraft-carrying cruiser “ Kiev ” when it moved from the Black Sea to the Northern Fleet (calling at the port of Burgas ). In November, “Resourceful” carried out military service in the Mediterranean ^[1] .

In the spring of 1983, after 5 years of repair, he came out for combat service in the Mediterranean Sea. Visited Tartus (Syria). Then in the Red Sea went to the island Nokra (Ethiopia). The next port is Aden (Yemen), then parking near the island of Socotra (Yemen).

March 16, 1984 at the time of entry into service (in the Dardanelles Strait) destroyer hit the ground and damaged both propellers. In 1987 he paid a visit to Split . From October to December 1987, the ship was in combat service in the Mediterranean. In December 1987, together with the TFR Selfless, he was on air defense duty at the port of Tobruk , Libya. In May 1988 he visited the port of Varna, Bulgaria. During 1988, he successfully participated in several exercises with artillery, torpedo and rocket firing in the Black Sea, calling at the port of Poti. In the spring of 1989, was sent for conservation in the port of Donuzlav. April 25, 1989 "Resourceful" was excluded from the lists of the Soviet Navy for dismantling and implementation; October 1, 1989 the crew was disbanded. In 1990, the destroyer was towed for scrap in Porto Nogara (Italy) ^[1] .

On the destroyer, a light-weight fore-mast was originally installed (strengthened during the subsequent modernization), instead of the Zarya radar, the Volna radar was originally deployed. Later, the Rif radar was replaced with “ FooT-N ”, and the Yakor-M1 radar had a rectangular section, and then the “ Anchor-M2 ” radar. The ship was the first to upgrade the project 56-A: instead of the aft artillery turret, the Volna anti-aircraft missile system with the Yatagan system, two Don radars, Angara radar, Hercules-2M GAS and MI-110K receiver were installed ; The 30-mm AK-230 artillery mounts with the Rys radar were not installed. A cable was laid on the nasal wall of the pyramidal main mast; behind the aft tube installed superstructure. The life rafts were hard at first, but later they were replaced with PSN (“inflatable liferaft”) ^[1] .

• 1958 - Captain 2nd Rank Dmitriev;
• 1959-1960 - Captain 3rd Rank Titov Yury Efimovich;
• 1976 - Captain 3rd Rank A. Rumyantsev ^[1] ;
• 1984 - Captain 1st Rank Turkovsky;
• 1984 - Captain 3rd Rank Yakovlev Alexander;
• 1986 - Captain 3rd Rank Yarovoy Andrei Petrovich;

Captain 3rd Rank Sysoev Tom Alexandrovich Captain 3rd Rank Komissarov Captain 3rd Rank Pashnin Gennady Fedorov

Captain 3rd Rank Kuts Vladimir Ivanovich Captain 3rd Rank Shevchuk Ivan Stepanovich Captain 3rd Rank Poletayev Boris Konstantinovich Captain 3rd Rank Taratynov Igor Valentinovich. The commander of the BC-2 Berezenkov, the commander of the Guro Odnolko N.S.

During service, the destroyer changed a number of the following board numbers ^[1] :

• 1956 - No. 36;
• 1957 - No. 46;
• 1959 - № 546;
• 1963 - No. 620;
• 1965 - No. 772;
• 1966 - № 017;
• 1969 - № 383;
• 1970 - № 388;
• 1971 - № 420;
• 1976 - № 322;
• 1977 - No. 513;
• 1978 - No. 380;
• 1984 - No. 513;
• 1985, No. 514;
• 1986 - № 522;
• 1987-1989 year - № 522.

• Apalkov Yu. V. Squad destroyers of the project 56. - SPb. : Galeya Print, 2006. - 84 p. - ISBN 5-8172-0108-9 .
• Pavlov A.S. Destroyer destroyers of project 56. - Yakutsk, 1999. - 48 p.

• "Resourceful" (neopr.) . - Article about the ship and its photos. The circulation date is January 2010. Archived April 15, 2012.