Russian Warship Movements Through Turkish Straits (Part 20)

I am back from my holiday. So are the Russians.

The Tarantul class corvette 955 Burya and the Ropucha class large landing ship 127 Minsk made a south bound passage through the Bosphorus on 11 August 2013.

This passage was very interesting for me on two accounts. I did not had any information that the Baltic Fleet ship Minsk was in the Black Sea. As far as I know, she is the third large landing ship of the Baltic Fleet to take part in the Russian naval operations in this region.

Second this is the first time that a corvette sized vessel is dispatched. The armed fighting ships of the Russians that escorted the landing ships were until now large combatants such as cruisers, destroyer. The Burya is the smallest escort send to the Med operations.

So this is the latest tally of Russian warship movements

Date	Number	Name	Direction
27/12/12	151	Azov	Southbound
27/12/12	152	Nikolay Filchenkov	Southbound
01/01/13	142	Novocharkassk	Southbound
09/01/13	152	Nikolay Filchenkov	Northbound
09/01/13	151	Azov	Northbound
12/01/13	142	Novocharkassk	Northbound
14/01/13	102	Kaliningrad	Northbound
14/01/13	110	Alexander Shabalin	Northbound
16/01/13	151	Azov	Southbound
04/02/13	151	Azov	Northbound
04/02/13	150	Saratov	Northbound
04/02/13	810	Smetlivy	Northbound
04/02/13		Ivan Bubnov	Northbound
05/02/13	110	Moskva	Northbound
07/02/13	102	Kaliningrad	Northbound
07/02/13	110	Alexander Shabalin	Northbound
08/02/13		Kildin	Northbound
20/02/13	102	Kaliningrad	Southbound
20/02/13	110	Alexander Shabalin	Southbound
25/03/13	102	Kaliningrad	Northbound
25/03/13	110	Alexander Shabalin	Northbound
11/04/13	102	Kaliningrad	Southbound
11/04/13	110	Alexander Shabalin	Southbound
14/04/13	151	Azov	Southbound
26/04/13	PM-138	PM-138	Southbound
24/04/13	102	Kaliningrad	Northbound
24/04/13	110	Alexander Shabalin	Northbound
24/04/13		Dubna	Northbound
30/04/13	102	Kaliningrad	Southbound
05/05/13	PM-56	PM-56	Northbound
05/05/13	152	Nikolay Filchenkov	Northbound
11/05/13	102	Kaliningrad	Northbound
11/05/13	110	Alexander Shabalin	Northbound
11/05/13	151	Azov	Northbound
19/05/13	151	Azov	Southbound
/05/13	151	Nikolay Filchenkov	Southbound
23/05/13	077	Peresvet	Northbound
23/05/13	055	Admiral Nevelskoi	Northbound
27/05/13	151	Azov	Northbound
27/05/13	151	Nikolay Filchenkov	Northbound
10/06/13	CCB-201	Priazove	Southbound
17/06/13	152	Nikolay Filchenkov	Southbound
20/06/13	102	Kaliningrad	Southbound
20/06/13	110	Alexander Shabalin	Southbound
01/07/13	102	Kaliningrad	Northbound
01/07/13	110	Alexander Shabalin	Northbound
03/07/13	MB-304	MB-304	Southbound
03/07/13		Ivan Bubnov	Southbound
03/07/13	120	Moskva	Southbound
13/07/13	102	Kaliningrad	Southbound
25/07/13	200	Perekop	Northbound
26/07/13	152	Nikolay Filchenkov	Northbound
26/07/13	151	Azov	Northbound
11/08/13	127	Minsk	Southbound
11/08/13	955	Burya	Southbound