''Soobrazitelny'' () is the second ship of the (officially known as Project 20380) built for the Russian Navy in the early 21st century.

Description

The ship is the first of the class to be fitted with the Redut system intended to increase its anti-aircraft capabilities with respect to the

Kashtan CIWS The Kortik (russian: Кортик, "dirk") close-in weapon system (CIWS) is a modern naval air defence gun-missile system deployed by the Russian Navy. Its export version is known as Kashtan (russian: Каштан, English: Chestnut), with the NA ...

previously used.

Construction and service

''Soobrazitelny'' was laid down at the

Severnaya Verf Severnaya Verf (russian: Северная верфь, , Northern Shipyard) is a major shipyard on in Saint Petersburg, Russia, producing naval and civilian ships. It was founded as a branch of the Putilov Plant in the late 1800s. Under the Sov ...

shipyard in

Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

on 20 May 2003. She was launched in late March 2010 and was shown to the public for the first time at the fifth International Maritime Defence Show (IMDS-2011) in St. Petersburg. The corvette began state testing in July 2011 and joined the Baltic Fleet on 14 October of that year, when her acceptance certificate was signed. ''Soobrazitelny'' was designated Guards on 1 March 2012 and received a battle flag inherited from her predecessors with the same name on 29 July of that year. In April 2017, ''Soobrazitelny'' and her sister ''Boyky'' were escorted through the English Channel by HMS ''Sutherland''. ''Soobrazitelny'' and ''Stoikiy'' entered the Mediterranean in October 2022. Between 18–21 October, they visited Algeria. In late November, both corvettes were absent from Tartus, likely shadowing French aircraft carrier, deployed to the East Mediterranean. On 5 December, they were in Tartus. In April 2023, the corvette, accompanied by ''Stoikiy'' and the frigate ''Admiral Grigorovich'', was reported to have left the Mediterranean, transitting via the Atlantic to the Baltic. She was reported back in the Atlantic in June. The ship was one of the main characters shown in the RT channel documentary series "The Baltic Fleet".

References

Steregushchiy-class corvettes Naval ships of Russia 2010 ships Ships built at Severnaya Verf {{USSR-mil-ship-stub