History

Ternopil is the ship 1124ME project (NATO reporting name

NATO reporting name

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: Grisha V class, in the Soviet classification: Albatros class ) .

Russian type designation is Small Anti-Submarine Ship. The Grisha class

Grisha class corvette

The Albatros class was a series of large anti-submarine corvettes built by the Soviet Union between 1970 and 1990. These ships had a limited range and were used only in coastal waters. They were equipped with a variety of ASW weapons and an SA-N-4 surface-to-air missile launcher...

 anti-submarine ship is designed to search for and destroy enemy submarines found in coastal areas. They were equipped with a variety of ASW weapons and an SA-N-4 surface-to-air missile

Surface-to-air missile

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 launcher. All were fitted with retractable fin stabilizers. Some of them (The Grisha II class) were built for the border guard .

The Grisha V class ships were built between 1985 and 2002. This incorporated further modifications with the twin 57 mm guns being replaced by a single 76 mm gun. Thirty ships were built. About 28 ships remain in the Russian Navy. Two ships — Lutsk

Lutsk (U200)

Lutsk is a anti-submarine corvette of the Ukrainian Navy. Board number U205 .- History :...

 and Ternopil were built in Ukraine

Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...

. Lutsk was launched on May 22, 1993 and Ternopil were entered service in February 16, 2006 with the Ukrainian Navy

Ukrainian Navy

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 .

Service

The Corvette was laid down on April 23, 1991 at the Leninska Kuznya

Leninska Kuznya

Leninska Kuznya is a ship building and armament company in Kiev, Ukraine. Although situated on the Dnieper River and presently concentrated on river ships, the company is able to produce & repair small sea vessels , as well as various military equipment.The Leninska Kuznya is indirectly controlled...

 shipyard. The ship was launched on March 15, 2002. The corvette was moved from Kiev

Kiev

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 to Mykolaiv

Mykolaiv

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. Some day later the Corvette was move again, this time to a port of Sevastopol

Sevastopol

Sevastopol is a city on rights of administrative division of Ukraine, located on the Black Sea coast of the Crimea peninsula. It has a population of 342,451 . Sevastopol is the second largest port in Ukraine, after the Port of Odessa....

 for testing. During the trials was corvette 1668 nmi (3,089.1 km). On February 15, 2006 an act was signed adding the ship to Ukrainian Navy

Ukrainian Navy

The Ukrainian Naval Forces is the navy of Ukraine and part of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. It was established in 1992. It consists of 5 branches: surface forces, submarine forces, Navy aviation, coast rocket-artillery and marines...

. The Ukrainian naval flag was raised on the ship on February 16, 2006.

The first sea trip was the ship in late 2006 for NATO Mission Oriented Training/MОТ. Crew of Ukrainian corvette, in practice, carried out Active Endeavour tactical episodes. Between May 25 and July, 2007 Ternipil took part in NATO Active Endeavour anti-terrorist operation.

In the future, Ternopil participated in Operation Active Endeavour regularly in 2008, 2009 and 2010.

Crew

• Captain, 3rd rank
  Lieutenant Commander
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   Roman Piatnytskiy
• Captain, 3rd rank
  Lieutenant Commander
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   Olexandr Mukhladi

Former Captains

• Captain, 2nd rank
  Commander
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   Serhiy Izotov
• Captain, 3rd rank
  Lieutenant Commander
  Lieutenant Commander is a commissioned officer rank in many navies. The rank is superior to a lieutenant and subordinate to a commander...
  
  Roman Piatnytskiy