A detachment of Pacific Fleet ships, headed by the guards missile cruiser Varyag, left Vladivostok on a friendly visit to the American port of San Francisco.
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Missile cruiser of project 1164.1 "Chervona Ukraine" (after December 21, 1995 - "Varyag")
July 31, 1979 laid down at the 61 Communards plant in Nikolaev (serial number 2010) and on November 5, 1982 enlisted in the lists of ships of the Navy, launched on August 28, 1983, entered service on December 25, 1989 and February 28, 1990 included in the KTOF.
Displacement: full 11 530, standard 9 500 t; length 192 m, width 20.8 m.
Power plant 2 - M70 x 10,000 HP, 4 - M8KF x 27,500 HP; travel speed: maximum 32.5, economic 18 knots; cruising range at economic speed 8070 miles.
Armament: 16x1 Vulcan anti-ship missiles (16 missiles), 8x1 Fort anti-aircraft missile systems (64 missiles), 2x2 OSA SAM launchers (40 missiles), 1x2 130-mm A-218 and 6x6 30-mm AK-630 guns, 2x5 533-mm TA, 2x12 RBU-6000 (144 RGB-60), 1 Ka-25ts helicopter. The crew is 610 people.
