VLADIVOSTOK. Sept 14 (Interfax) - The Rezky corvette was commissioned in Vladivostok on Thursday, having raised the Russian Navy flag, the Pacific Fleet's press service said in a statement.
The Amur Shipyard, a unit of the United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC), built the corvette.
The ceremony took place at Pacific Fleet Pier 33 on Korabelnaya Embankment in the center of Vladivostok, the press service said.
Once the certificate of the corvette's acceptance from the shipyard was signed and the St. Andrew's flag hoisted, the ship was commissioned by the Pacific Fleet on the order from Navy Commander-in-Chief Adm. Nikolai Yevmenov, it said.
The Rezky is the fourth in the series of Project 20380 multipurpose corvettes built by the Amur Shipyard specifically for the Pacific Fleet. Its keel was laid in Komsomolsk-on-Amur on July 1, 2016. The ship arrived in Vladivostok for trials in 2021. Corvettes of Project 20380 are designed to operate in coastal waters, to fight surface ships and submarines of an enemy, and to give artillery support to landing marines.
They are armed with an Uran anti-ship missile system, a Redut air defense missile system, torpedoes, a wide range of radars and radio-electronic systems, a 100mm AK-190 artillery system, and heavy machineguns and grenade launchers.