Soviet frigate Storozhevoy
A Burevestnik-class frigate at anchor. Storozhevoy would have looked identical in most respects to the vessel pictured here.
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 Soviet Union
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| Name: | Storozhevoy |
| Namesake: | Russian for Vigilant |
| Builder: | SY 190 Severnaya Verf |
| Commissioned: | 1972–73 |
| Struck: | 2004(?) |
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| Class and type: | Project 1135 Burevestnik frigate |
| Displacement: | 3,300 tons standard, 3,575 tons full load |
| Length: | 405.3 ft (123.5 m) |
| Beam: | 46.3 ft (14.1 m) |
| Draught: | 15.1 ft (4.6 m) |
| Propulsion: | 2 shaft; COGAG; 2x M-8k gas-turbines, 40,000 shp; 2x M-62 gas-turbines (cruise), 14,950 shp |
| Speed: | 32 knots (59 km/h) |
| Range: | 4,995 nmi (9,251 km) at 14 knots (26 km/h) |
| Complement: | 200 |
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| Notes: | (General class characteristics) |
Storozhevoy (Russian: Сторожевой, "guard" or "sentry") was a Soviet Navy 1135 Burevestnik-class anti-submarine frigate (NATO reporting name Krivak). The ship was attached to the Soviet Baltic Fleet and based in Riga. It was involved in a mutiny in November 1975.
The mutiny was led by the ship's political commissar, Captain of the Third Rank Valery Sablin, who wished to protest against the rampant corruption of the Leonid Brezhnev era. His aim was to seize the ship and steer it out of the Bay of Riga, to Leningrad through the Neva River, moor alongside the museum ship Aurora, an old cruiser symbol of the Russian revolution, and broadcast a nationwide address to the people from there. In that address, he was going to say what he believed people publicly wanted to say, but could only be said in private: that socialism and the motherland were in danger; the ruling authorities were up to their necks in corruption, demagoguery, graft, and lies, leading the country into an abyss; communism had been discarded, and there was a need to revive the Leninist principles of justice.
On the evening of 9 November 1975, Sablin lured the captain to the lower deck, claiming that there were some officers who needed to be disciplined for being drunk on duty. When the captain arrived at the lower deck, Sablin detained him and other officers in the forward sonar compartment and seized control of the ship. Sablin then summoned a meeting of all the senior officers on the ship. Here a vote was taken amongst the fifteen officers present. Sablin informed the officers that he planned to sail to Leningrad and broadcast his revolutionary message. Eight officers voted in favor of the mutiny; the remaining seven senior members of the ship's crew who did not wish to go along with the plan were locked in a separate compartment below the main deck.
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