''Admiral Levchenko'' is a Russian destroyer of the . The ship was laid down in 1982 and was commissioned in the Soviet Navy in 1988. After the fall of the Soviet Union the ship continued to serve in the Russian Navy with the

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. She was named after admiral

Gordey Levchenko Gordey Ivanovich Levchenko (russian: Гордей Иванович Левченко, 1 February 1897 – 26 May 1981) was a Soviet naval commander and admiral from 1944. Born at Dubrovka, Ukraine, a part of the Russian Empire, in 1897, Levc ...

. In 2010 ''Admiral Levchenko'' was part of the Russian operations to combat

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off the Somali coast. By 2020, she was reported inactive due to an overhaul. The overhaul includes upgrading ship's fire-fighting systems, onboard electronics, new cooling units and shut-off valves. The ship should also receive Russia's newest "Otvet" anti-submarine missile system. She was expected to return to service in late 2022 but was reported active post-refit as of May 2022. On 26 May 2022, the destroyer conducted exercises in the Barents Sea. On 8 September 2022, ''Admiral Levchenko'' held exercises along the Northern Sea Route, along with LST ''Aleksandr Otrakovsky'', tanker ''Sergey Osipov'' and tug ''Pamir''. On 10 October, the three ships returned to Severomorsk.

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