BYSTRY or BISTRYY (715) Destroyer

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Built as guided missile destroyer by the Severnaya Verf 190 in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) for the Russian Navy.
29 October 1985 laid down.
28 November 1987 launched as the BYSTRYY or BYSTRY one of Project 956 Sarych Sovremennyy class.
Displacement 6.300 standard, 7,900 full load. Dim. 156 x 17 x 5.99m. (draught).
Powered by two steam turbines, 100,000 shp., twin shafts, speed 32.5 knots.
Armament: Missiles 4 – 2 3M-80/Moscit (SS-N-22), 2 9K-90/Uragan SAM system (48 9M-38/38MI/SA-N-7 Smerch/Gadfly). 4 – 2 3M-82/(SS-N-22) and 24 9M-38E-1/SA-N-12 Yozh/Grizzly.
Guns 2 – 2 AK-130Dp (130mm, 2,000 rounds.) and 4 AK-630 gattling AA 96 – 30mm;6,000 rounds/m/mount, 20,000 cartiges.
Torpedoes2x2 – 533 mm torpedo tubes. 2 – 6 RBU-1000 ASW RL (48 rockets) and can carry 40 mines.
One helicopter KA-27.
Crew 296.
30 September 1989 commissioned for the Russian Pacific Fleet based in Vladivostok.

From 5-8 June 1990 she visited Kiel, Germany.
23 – 30 Visited Zindao, China.
31 August to 04 September 1993 visited Pusan, South Korea.
1993 till 2002 underwent an overhaul.
August 2006 took part in the Naval Parade of the Russian Pacific Fleet.
July 2008 took part in navy exercises in the Japanese Sea in which she launched a Sunburn AShM.
March 2009 took part in complex PAS exercises.
April 2009 took part in the joint Russian-Frenc exercises SAREX.
May 2010 took part in Russian Pacific Fleet exercises.
September 2010 got fire in her engine room..
2012 In active service.
Moscow October 7, 2010 - Sailor of Pacific Fleet (PF) destroyer BYSTRY was posthumously put forward for a state award. On Sept 24 Aldar Tsydenzhapov prevented an explosion on board and by this saved lives of 300 crewmembers at the expense of his life. Investigators are trying to find out reasons of the tragedy. Besides, the local authorities have already made a decision – a street will be named in honor of the 19-year old hero in his native town Aginskoye.
Aldar had been always just like on his photograph – quiet and self-confident. His mother says she has proud of Aldar more than of her other three children, especially when her son was conscripted to the Navy. Aldar was supposed to take discharge in a month.
"All of my kids have different tempers. Among others, Aldar was the calmest and the most prudent. He always thought before saying", recalls the hero's mom. "His twin-sister is widely different".
Aldar's brother Bulat says he had always said "first service, then studies". He was going to continue contractual service after discharge.
Aldar was posted to the Far East and served on PF destroyer BYSTRY. In the day of accident the ship was prepared to sail towards Kamchatka within a task group; nothing signified a tragedy.
As other sailors said, pressurized fuel dropped on a lamp and ignited. That happened in the boiler room. So far, it is uncertain whether the fuel pipe was ruptured or the fusible plug burnt. Finally, the residual blend under heavy pressure puffed out and inflamed.
Aldar Tsydenzhapov was the closest to the boiler. Three other seamen were around there and also started to extinguish the fire but when realized that was ineffective, they scurried for exit. Aldar remained at his battle station and managed to shut off the fuel.
"His skilled and expert actions prevented the ignition from outgrowing to a huge fire and let the command bring the fire under control and extinguish it, having kept the ship serviceable and the crew alive", said Vladimir Piskaikin, deputy commander of missile ships task force.
Experts say that if the boiler exploded, all crewmen could die. "There was a threat of a large-scale fire, and the consequences would be more tragic. It is hard to imagine how the boiler could behave", agrees Alexei Konoplev, motion department commander of PF destroyer BYSTRY.
Aldar was heavily burnt and the hospitalized. Several days doctors had been trying to save him, but failed.
PF Procuracy holds an inquiry into the accident. Special board has to give the distinct conclusion about reasons of the tragedy.
All cruises of PF ships are suspended until the investigation is over. PF command put forward for awards all four seamen being in the boiler room during the fire. Aldar Tsydenzhapov will be awarded posthumously.
His berth will never be occupied. Crewmates hung Aldar's photograph over it. There's a native ship behind the hero.

The Sovremenny Class is a Russian class of destroyers designed to engage hostile ships by means of missile attack, and to provide warships and transport ships with protection against ship and air attack. Intended primarily for anti-ship operations, it was designed to compliment anti-submarine warfare (ASW) Udaloy destroyers. The ships have anti-ship, anti-aircraft, anti-submarine and coastal bombardment capability. The ships, with a maximum displacement of 8,480 tons are similar in size to the US Navy's Aegis-equipped missile cruisers, and are armed with an anti-submarine helicopter, 48 air defence missiles, 8 anti-ship missiles, torpedoes, mines, long range guns and a comprehensive electronic warfare system. The first Sovremenny Class destroyer was commissioned in 1985.
The hull design is derived from the predecessor Kresta II cruisers. The ship's propulsion system is based on two steam turbine engines, unlike the gas-turbines used on the Udaloy, each producing 50,000 horsepower together with four high pressure boilers. There are two fixed pitch propellers. The ship's maximum speed is just under 33 knots. At a fuel-economic speed of 18 knots the range is 3,920 miles. The endurance is 30 days.
The ship is equipped with the Moskit anti-ship missile system with two quadruple launchers installed port and starboard of the forward island and set at an angle about 15 degrees to the horizontal. The ship carries a total of eight Moskit 3M80E missiles. The air defence system is the Shtil surface to air missile. Two Shtil missile systems are installed, each on the raised deck behind the two-barrelled 130 mm guns fore and aft of the two islands. The ships are further equipped with AK-130-MR-184 130 mm guns and four six-barrel AK-630 artillery systems for defence. Anti-submarine defence is provided by two double 533 mm torpedo tubes installed port and starboard, and two six-barrel anti-submarine rocket launchers, RBU-1000, with 48 rockets, and a Ka-27 helicopter.
The late units of the class, designated Project 956A, are modified with the improved SA-N-17 (Grizzly) surface-to-air missile and the 3M-82 Moskit anti-ship missile.
At the end of 1997 the only large surface combatants active in significant numbers were the newer units of the dozen remaining Sovremennyy-class guided-missile destroyers and a few of the half-dozen remaining operational Udaloy-class destroyers. At that time the two remaining unfinished Sovremennyys, Vazhniy and Aleksandr Nevskiy (ex-Vdumchivyy), were lying 65% and 35% complete, respectively, at St. Petersburg, with only the first in the water. The first was delivered to China in early 2000, with the second to follow soon thereafter.
Two additional units were cancelled before being laid down. One additional unit remains incomplete -- intended for the Russian Navy, the construction status and projected commissioning date are highly uncertain. There is some disagreement among sources as to the identity and chronology of the pair of ships acquired by China and the remaining incomplete unit reportedly slated for the Russian Navy.
An improved Sovremenny II design, fitted with the CADS-N-1 point defense system, was projected but delayed indefinitely due to a lack of funding. During the 1980s as many as 28 Sovremenny-class ships may have been planned.
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