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Monday, July 21, 2014

State commission inks acceptance certificate for corvette "Stoiky"

RFS StoikyState commission on July 18 2014 in Baltiysk signed the acceptance / handover certificate for the newest corvette "Stoiky", the third serial corvette of project 20380 (Steregushchy class).

The ship was built at St. Petersburg based Severnaya Verf (part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation), the Corp. said in a press release.

The name of the third serial 20380-design corvette is inherited from its famous predecessors: the first of Baltic Fleet's 7U project destroyer that was defending Leningrad and Tallinn during WWII, the first serial destroyer of project 30 Bis and sixth serial 956-design ship, which had previously been built at the Russian shipyard.

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