The frigate was the second ship of the class. The keel was laid on 20 January 1983 with
yard number 202 at the
Zaliv Shipyard in
Kerch. The ship was launched on 2 March 1984.
Dzerzhinskiy was commissioned to
KGB Border Troops Naval Service on 29 December 1984.
Dzerzhinskiy was participating in an exercise with the
United States Coast Guard around the waters of Northeastern Russia on 26 May 1998, when one of the American coast guard cutters radioed its Russian counterpart that there is an intruding unidentified vessel in the area, which is inside the
exclusive economic zone of Russia.
Dzerzhinskiy was the closest vessel to the intruder, so the ship chased and ordered the intruder to stop. The intruder, which turned out to be a Chinese
seiner (a type of fishing vessel)
Zong Long 37, did not yield and increased its speed.
Dzerzhinskiy fired twelve warning shots at the course of
Zong Long 37 and when the seiner did not responded, the frigate fired and scored a direct hit.
Zong Long 37 suffered casualties of two dead and four wounded, with the other 22 crew not injured. The seiner was escorted to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky on 27 May, with the wounded treated at regional hospital. Around 50 tonnes of salmon and caviar along with 90 kilometers of
drift nets were found on board
Zong Long 37. The frigate discovered an unidentified fishing vessel around from
Medny Island,
Komandorski Islands on 24 November 1999 at 07:00 local time.
Dzerzhinskiy ordered the fishing vessel to stop, which was ignored and the chase ensued for 2 hours, which at that point the frigate fired a warning shot with its gun and ignored by the intruder. An hour later
Dzerzhinskiy fired another warning shot. At around 13:00 the border guards were ordered to fire directly at the intruder using a
Kalashnikov rifle with tracer rounds. The intruder, which was a 1,500 tonnes Japanese trawler
Meise Maru 128, stopped and was boarded by personnel from
Dzerzhinskiy. There were no casualties among the 27 crew members of the trawler.
Meise Maru 128 was brought to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky on 27 November. In June 2006,
Dzerzhinskiy discovered an unidentified vessel in the
Sea of Okhotsk. The frigate ordered the suspected poachers to stop to be inspected, but they evaded and started fleeing. After
Dzerzhinskiy threatened to use its weapons and a Ka-27 helicopter was dispatched to search the area, the vessel stopped. The vessel's crew, turned out to be MTP
Priozerny from
Magadan, then started to scuttle
Priozerny as the border guards approached it. On the night of 26–27 September 2007, during the border operation "Krab-2007", a Russian border guard aircraft detected a fishing vessel in the Sea of Okhotsk with its transponder turned off, no identification marks and flag, and also did not respond to communication from the border guard.
Dzerzhinskiy was sent to inspect the vessel. The fishing vessel tried to evade the border patrol ship and when
Dzerzhinskiy ordered the vessel to stop, a chase ensued throughout the night. After warning shot has been fired, the unidentified vessel stopped and its crew were scuttling the fishing vessel. As
Dzerzhinskiy closed in and noticed that the fishing vessel begun to list, the frigate lowered its rescue equipment. After further inspection, the fishing vessel was owned by a
Sakhalin fishing company. All 17 crew members of the vessel were Russian citizen, and they were taken aboard the frigate. As of 2022,
Dzerzhinskiy was the only active vessel in the Coast Guard of Russia that was awarded with the
Order of the Red Banner.
Dzerzhinskiy was decommissioned on 14 April 2023. The second ship of the
Project 23550 patrol ship—its replacement—was also named
Dzerzhinskiy. == References ==