''Admiral Nevelskoy'' () is a of the

Russian Navy The Russian Navy is the Navy, naval arm of the Russian Armed Forces. It has existed in various forms since 1696. Its present iteration was formed in January 1992 when it succeeded the Navy of the Commonwealth of Independent States (which had i ...

and part of the Pacific Fleet. Named after the

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officer and explorer of the Pacific

Gennady Nevelskoy Gennady Ivanovich Nevelskoy (; in Drakino, Soligalichsky Uyezd, Kostroma Governorate – in St. Petersburg) was a Russian navigator and naval officer. In 1829 he joined the Naval Cadet Corps and in 1846 was given the rank of ...

, the ship was built in

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and launched in 1982. She was named ''BDK-98'' () for , from her construction until being renamed ''Admiral Nevelskoy'' in 2011. She is one of the subtype of the Ropucha-class landing ships, designated Project 775/II by the Russian Navy.

Construction and commissioning

''Admiral Nevelskoy'' was built as ''BDK-98'' by Stocznia Północna, part of

Gdańsk Shipyard The Gdańsk Shipyard (, formerly Lenin Shipyard) is a large Polish shipyard, located in the city of Gdańsk, northern Poland. The yard gained international fame when Polish trade union Solidarity () was founded there in September 1980. It is sit ...

, in

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, in what was then the

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. She was laid down on 29 May 1981, and launched on 21 January 1982. She was commissioned into the

Soviet Navy The Soviet Navy was the naval warfare Military, uniform service branch of the Soviet Armed Forces. Often referred to as the Red Fleet, the Soviet Navy made up a large part of the Soviet Union's strategic planning in the event of a conflict with t ...

on 28 September 1982 as part of its Pacific Fleet,

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ed in Fokino, Primorsky Krai, and with the

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in late December 1991, she went on to serve in the Russian Navy.

Career

In service since 1985 as ''BDK-98'', she was renamed ''Admiral Nevelskoy'' on 24 July 2011. From 1 to 5 July 2007, she was the host ship for a port visit to

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by a US detachment of warships. She left her Pacific homepart on 19 March 2013, with the Pacific Fleet destroyer ''Admiral Panteleyev'', her

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''Oslyabya'' and ''Peresvet'', the tanker ''Pechenga'', and the ocean-going tug ''Fotiy Krylov''. ''Admiral Nevelskoy'' and ''Peresvet'' sailed on to the Black Sea port of

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, where they arrived on 24 May 2013. She then operated from September 2013 as part of the navy's permanent task force. She had returned to the Pacific by May 2014, when she and other Pacific Fleet ships visited China. She then began a refit at the Far Eastern Shipbuilding and Ship Repair Centre, works which were completed in March 2015. On 24 July 2015, she began several sailings between Vanino in

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Kholmsk Kholmsk (), known until 1946 as Maoka (), is a port town and the administrative center of Kholmsky District of Sakhalin Oblast, Russia. It is located on the southwest coast of the Sakhalin Island, on coast of the gulf of Nevelsky in the Strait o ...

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, to ease a backlog of traffic on civilian vessels after Typhoon Chan-hom disrupted the

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sailings for several days. By the end of her deployment on this task on 28 July, she had transported 350 passengers to Sakhalin. She took part in a naval parade at Korsakov on 2 September 2015 to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the end of the

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. In July 2023, ''Admiral Nevelskoy'' deployed for mine exercises with the Pacific Fleet

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''Yakov Balyayev''. In April 2024, she carried out landing exercises in Ussuri Bay. In December 2024, she conducted exercises off the

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. In February 2025, she was again at sea for exercises, in

Peter the Great Bay The Peter the Great Gulf (Russian: Залив Петра Великого) is a gulf on the southern coast of Primorsky Krai, Russia, and the largest gulf of the Sea of Japan. The gulf extends for from the Russian–North Korean border, at the ...

References

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