Cruiser

Groznyy (Project 58)

Shipyard 190 (Zhdanov)
Leningrad, Russia

336 (1964), 176 (1966), 641 (1968),
823 (1968), 831 (1971), 835 (1971),
822 (1977), 019 (1977), 845 (1980),
120 (1981), 022 (1987), 017 (1990)

N/A

October 5, 1960

December 28, 1964

Scrapped 1995.

Launched 19 November 1961 with the name Steregushyy the vessel was renamed Vladivostok (Ruler of the east) on 31 October 1962 and eventually received its definitive name of Admiral Fokin on 11 May 1964. The vessel was named after Admiral Vitaliy Alekseyevich Fokin.

Admiral Fokin sailed in 1965 from Severomorsk to Vladivostok to serve with the Pacific Fleet attached to the 175th Missile Ship Brigade. During the 1960s, the vessel toured the Indian Ocean, visiting Mombasa, Kenya (26 November to 2 December 1968), Aden, South Yemen (2 to 7 January 1969), Al Hudaydah, North Yemen (9 to 12 January 1969), Mumbai, India (February 1969), Nairobi, Kenya (5 to 9 April 1969) and Port Louis, Mauritius (19 April to 23 April 1969). In February and March 1979, Admiral Fokin joined a large fleet of Soviet warships led by Sverdlov-class cruiser Admiral Senyavin that operated in the South China Sea in support of Vietnam during clashes along their border with China. The vessel continued to serve in the Indian Ocean in the 1980s, returning to South Yemen in May 1980.

Admiral Fokin was decommissioned on 30 June 1993 and scrapped in 1995.

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