73rd Coastal Patrol Ships Brgde. (Zolotoi Zaton : Golden Creek) (Astrakhan)

Russia / Astrahan / Starokucherganovka / Astrakhan
 military, navy, missile

73rd Coastal Patrol Ships Brgde.
(ЗОЛОТОЙ ЗАТОН : Zolotoi Zaton : Golden Creek)
CO (as of 2008)
1st-Class Captain Gennady Nikolaevich.

Comprised (2008):
The 249th missile boats division (Zolotoi Zaton)
CO 2nd-Class Captain Vyacheslav Lelik.
as follows :-

“Astrakhan” — Project 21630 small gun weapon ship. Board number 012, commissioned in 2006. CO 3rd-Class Captain Sergei Barsky.

R-101 “Stupinets” — Project 12411T missile boat. Board number 705, commissioned in 1985. CO 3rd-Class Captain Andrei Gunkin.

R-25 “Borovsk” — Project 206MR missile boat. Board number 701, commissioned in 1983. CO Captain-Lieutenant Vasily Vodnev.

R-30 “Budennovsk” — Project 206MR missile boat. Board number 702, commissioned in 1983. CO Senior Lieutenant Vladimir Cherokov.

R-50 “Karachaevo-Cherkesia” — Project 206MR missile boat. Board number 758, commissioned in 1978. CO Captain-Lieutenant Vusal Miriev. In repair.

Since when the 249th Missile Boats Division has transferred its flag to Makhachkala (Dagestan) and a new Division, the 250th surface ships division, has been formed here instead .

Transferred to this new unit , from Kaspiysk , is the new flag ship of the Caspian Flotilla,
the first Gepard (Cheetah) class frigate (Project 1166.1) named
“Tatarstan : ТАТАРСТАН” (ex Yastreb)
Board number 691, commissioned in 2002. CO 2nd-Class Captain Valery Smirnov.

Also transferred here are two Project 12650 coastal minesweepers (NATO : Sonya Class) as follows :

BT-116 “Magomed Gadjiev” —.from Kaspiysk
Board number 564, commissioned in 1993. CO Captain-Lieutenant Nikolai Sivonen.

BT-244 “German Ugryumov” - from Nikolo-Komarovka
Board number 531, commissioned in 1988. CO Captain-Lieutenant Dmitry Gavrilyuk.

and the “Karachaevo-Cherkesia” (as above) has been retained.

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