Stoikiy was
laid down on 10 November 2006, and
launched on 30 May 2012 by
Severnaya Verf in
Saint Petersburg. She was
commissioned on 18 July 2014. On 21 January 2014, she completed the first stage of
sea trial and on the 24th, arrived at the
Naval Base Baltiysk. On the 29th, she conducted
live fire exercises. In April 2015, as part of a detachment of ships of the
Baltic Fleet (
Boikiy,
Stoikiy,
Soobrazitelny and
Steregushchiy), together with naval aviation at a training ground in the
Baltic Sea, she performed tasks in anti-aircraft and anti-submarine defense. During the exercise, the ships conducted artillery fire at sea and air targets, found and destroyed a simulated enemy submarine, and practiced joint maneuvering. In November 2016, the crew of the
Stoiky in the sea ranges of the Baltic Fleet worked out actions to search for and detect a simulated enemy submarine using the latest anti-submarine weapons and successfully conditionally hit a target from the
Paket-E/NK anti-submarine system. Further, in November, acting together with the
Soobrazitelny, during tactical exercises in the Baltic Sea, she delivered a successful missile strike against complex targets that imitated a ship (using the
Uran anti-ship missile system) and a
cruise missile (using the
Redut air defense system). On 15 June 2017, as part of a detachment of ships from the Baltic Fleet (
Boikiy and
Steregushchiy), she successfully completed elements of joint maneuvering at sea and artillery fire at sea surface targets. From 28 June to 2 July, she took part in the VIII International Naval Salon-2017 (IMDS -2017) held in
St. Petersburg. On 30 July she took part in the main naval parade in
Navy Day. On 31 August, during an exercise, the corvette crew repulsed a simulated torpedo attack in the Baltic Sea, and also conducted artillery firing at various targets, anti-sabotage defense measures, and an in-ship training to combat ship damage. On 18 June 2018, a detachment of ships of the Baltic Fleet, consisting of
Boikiy and
Stoikiy, the
tanker Kola and the
tugboat Viktor Konetsky, sailed into the
North Atlantic to carry out planned tasks for a long voyage. On 15 November 2019, the
Stoikiy and the large landing ship
Kaliningrad returned to the homeport
Baltiysk after completing combat training missions as part of the permanent presence of the Baltic Fleet forces in their area of responsibility, they were in the Baltic Sea for more than 30 days and traveled more than 4,000 miles.
2021 On 16 December 2020, corvette
Stoikiy, tanker
Kola and tug
Yakov Grebelskiy left Naval Base Baltiysk for
Atlantic,
Mediterranean and
Indian Ocean. In early January 2021, the ship detachment entered the Mediterranean Sea and on 9 January it called at
Tartus, Syria. On 15 January, they met frigate
Admiral Kasatonov and tug
Nikolay Chiker in the western Mediterranean Sea. Later on, the three ships visited the Cypriot port of
Limassol. On 1 February 2021,
Stoikiy and
Kola entered the Red Sea and were heading for the
Gulf of Aden. Some reports suggested that the ships are to participate in the international naval exercise AMAN2021 in Pakistan, however the detachment of the three ships instead participated in an exercise with
Iranian Navy between 15–16 February 2021. Iran contributed a frigate, a corvette, three missile boats, a patrol boat and two auxiliary vessels to the exercise. This was only the second deployment of the ships of this class beyond
Suez Canal after ''Soobrazitelnyy's
deployment to the Red Sea in November 2017. Between 20–23 February, Stoikiy
called at Salalah, Oman. On 2 March, the ship escorted two merchant vessels in the Gulf of Aden. Between 12–15 March, Stoikiy
, accompanied by Kola
, paid a second visit to Salalah. On 19 March, Stoikiy
and Kola
called at Port Sudan, Sudan. This was the second visit of a Russian Navy vessel to the location of a future Russian naval base, following the port call of frigate Admiral Grigorovich'' on 28 February. During the sandstorm with 40 kn winds in the Suez Canal on 23 March,
Kola collided with the bulk carrier
Ark Royal two hours prior to the
container ship Ever Given running aground some 11 km further north, both ships sustaining slight damage.
Stoikiy, along with
Kola and around 350 other ships on both sides of the canal, were forced to wait for the
Ever Given to be refloated.
Stoikiy and
Kola are the only military vessels known to have been affected by the obstruction. At the time of the incident, maritime tracking website Vesselfinder.com temporarily misidentified
Kola as
Stoikiy (specifically "Russian Warship 545"); this was corrected on 25 March. As of 29 March,
Stoikiy was still anchored in the
Gulf of Suez. On 2 April,
Stoiky called at Limassol, Cyprus.
2022 Stoikiy and
Soobrazitelny entered the Mediterranean in October 2022 Between 18–21 October, they visited Algeria. In late November, both corvettes were absent from Tartus, likely shadowing French aircraft carrier, deployed to the East Mediterranean. On 5 December, they were in Tartus.
2023 In April 2023, the corvette, accompanied by
Soobrazitelny and the frigate
Admiral Grigorovich, was reported to have left the Mediterranean, transiting via the Atlantic to the Baltic. She was reported back in the Atlantic in June.
2025/26 The frigate was reported active as of late-2025/early-2026, transiting the
English Channel destined for exercises with the
Chinese,
Iranian and
South African navies and accompanied by the tanker
Yel'nya. In February 2026, the corvette conducted joint exercises with the
Iranian Navy and made a port call at
Bandar Abbas. The ship departed Bandar Abbas prior to the outbreak of
hostilities between the United States, Israel and Iran She then transitted the
Suez Canal and in March/April 2026 was operating in the
Mediterranean Sea, spending considerable time at the former Russian
naval facility in Tartus, Syria with the suggestion that this facility was potentially being reactivated. == Gallery ==