Soviet cruiser Admiral Isachenkov

Admiral Isachenkov underway in 1985
History
Soviet Union
Name	Admiral Isachenkov
Namesake	Nikolai Isachenkov
Builder	Zhdanov Shipyard
Laid down	30 October 1970
Launched	28 March 1972
Completed	5 November 1974
Stricken	3 July 1992
Fate	Sold to be broken up in India
General characteristics
Class and type	Kresta II-class cruiser
Displacement	5,640 t (5,551 long tons) (standard) 7,575 t (7,455 long tons) (full load)
Length	156.5 m (513.5 ft) (o/a)
Beam	17.2 m (56.4 ft)
Draught	5.96 m (19.6 ft)
Installed power	4 × boilers 91,000 shp (68,000 kW)
Propulsion	2 x steam turbines 2 × shafts
Speed	34 knots (63 km/h; 39 mph)
Range	5,200 nmi (9,600 km; 6,000 mi) at 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph)
Complement	343
Sensors and processing systems	Radar MR-600 Voskhod early-warning radar MR-310A Angara-A search radar 2 x Volga navigational radars 2 x 4R60 Grom, 2 x MR-103 Bars, 2 x MR-123 Vympel fire-control radars Sonar MG-332T Titan-2T
Armament	2 quad URPK-3 Metel anti-submarine systems (8 missiles) 2 twin M-11 Shtorm surface-to-air missile systems (48 missiles) 2 × twin 57 mm (2.2 in) AK-725 dual-purpose guns 4 × sextuple 30 mm (1.2 in) AK-630 CIWS 2 × quintuple 533 mm (21.0 in) torpedo tubes
Aircraft carried	1 Kamov Ka-25 'Hormone-A' helicopter
Aviation facilities	Helicopter deck and hangar

Admiral Isachenkov (Russian: Адмирал Исаченков) was a Project 1134A Berkut A (NATO reporting name 'Kresta II'-class) large anti-submarine ship (Russian: Большой Противолодочный Корабль, BPK) of the Soviet Navy. The seventh ship of the class, the vessel was launched in 1972 and served during the Cold War with the Northern Fleet, often operating in the Atlantic Ocean but also travelling to various ports in the Mediterranean Sea. The ship acted as flagship for the Minister of Defence, Marshal of the Soviet Union Andrei Grechko, during the exercise Okean-75 in 1975 and operated alongside the newly launched Project 1143 Krechyet aircraft carrier Kiev in 1977 and 1978. The ship also shadowed the NATO aircraft carriers HMS Ark Royal, USS Independence and USS John F. Kennedy. The cruiser was taken out of service for repairs in 1981 and substantially upgraded with new weapons and communications systems, re-entering service in 1982. With the end of the Cold War, the Navy reassessed its need for large warships and, after a career stretching nearly twenty years, Admiral Isachenkov was decommissioned in 1992 and sold to be broken up.