The frigate was the seventh ship of the class. The keel was laid on 15 May 1987 with
yard number 207 at the
Zaliv Shipyard in
Kerch. The ship was launched on 28 July 1990.
Vorovskiy was commissioned to
KGB Border Troops Naval Service on 29 December 1990. The border guard ensign was hoisted on the ship for the first time on 5 April 1991. She made a
shakedown cruise around the
Black Sea on 20–26 June 1991, visiting ports of
Novorossiysk,
Batumi, and
Odesa. The ship was assigned to the 2nd Brigade of Border Patrol Ships, 1st
Red Banner Division of Border Patrol Ships in
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, part of the Northeastern Border District. From 18 August to 9 October 1991,
Vorovskiy sailed from
Sevastopol to its assigned homeport in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky via
Suez Canal. The frigate was laid up from 1994 to 2000 due to lack of funding. She returned to active service in 2001. on 10 April 2004 during an Alaskan patrol
Vorovskiy stopped and boarded the Russian
freezer trawler Rekin, based from
Magadan, for inspection on 23 May 2002 in the waters off northern
Kuril Islands. The boarding party that was sent consisted of a border guard officer and five employees from the State Marine Inspectorate of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, which went to the wheelhouse for a conversation with the trawler's captain about the inspection of documents. A few minutes later, the trawler's crew weighed anchor and heading outside Russian exclusive economic zone at high speed and towards Japanese waters, all the while the inspection party is still on board.
Rekins captain reasoned that they urgently needs to meet with an other Magadan-based trawler
Solnechny to supposedly replenish freon supply, while at the same time ignored orders to stop by the border guard officer aboard.
Vorovskiy then chased the trawler for suspicion of illegal fishing. The incident was immediately reported up to the chain of command of the Pacific Border District, with another border patrol ship sent to pursuit and an
An-72 was flown to track the trawler. The Japanese authorities also has been notified and ready to cooperate.
Rekin kept ignoring warning shots fired by the frigate, instead sending SOS signals declaring that they were pursued by an unknown warship.
Vorovskiy then successfully stopped the trawler around 230–250 nautical miles southeast of
Simushir Island.
Rekin was then escorted to Kamchatka, with the inspection party recovered uninjured. during the 10th
NPCGF, 27 August 2009 The ship concluded an Agreement on Friendship and Cooperation with
Novosibirsk municipal government in 2006. The patronage agreement includes military-patriotic education, delegations exchange, and facilitating the recruitment of Novosibirsk citizens for contract service on the ship. In April 2007,
Vorovskiy visited the U.S. Coast Guard 17th District in Kodiak, Alaska. Along the way, the frigate along with conducted joint maneuvers at sea in the Alaskan waters.
Vorovskiy participated in Exercise Pacific Unity 2009, part of the 10th
North Pacific Coast Guard Agencies Forum, held on 24–27 August 2009. She arrived at
Port Angeles on 23 August. The exercise includes simulated search and rescue, navigation and security operations. The ship made a port call to
Magadan on 12 June 2017.
Vorovskiy was decommissioned on 19 September 2017 with a flag lowering ceremony held aboard the ship, which was moored at coast guard base in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. == References ==