RFS Admiral Tributs

RFS Admiral Tributs

***Admiral Tributs*** (Адмирал Трибуц) is a Project 1155 Large Anti-Submarine Ship (Большой Противолодочный Корабль, BPK) of the Russian Navy. Known in the west as an *Udaloy*-class destroyer, the ship is named after admiral Vladimir Filippovich Tributs. Launched in 1983, *Admiral Tributs* serves in the Russian Pacific Fleet and has taken part in operations alongside the naval forces of other nations like China, India and Japan, and as part of a peacekeeping force in the Middle East between 1992 and 1993.

### Career

*Admiral Tributs* was laid down on 19 April 1980 and launched on 26 March 1983. The ship is named after Vladimir Filippovich Tributs.

She was accepted into the Pacific Fleet on 15 February 1986 and attached to the 183rd Anti-Submarine Warfare Brigade. The ship served in the Indian Ocean in 1987, visiting Aden, South Yemen, and 1990, visiting Penang, Malaysia. Between 5 December 1992 and 23 May 1993, the vessel undertook peacekeeping duties in the Persian Gulf, followed by a lengthy modernization at Dalzavod, Vladivostok that lasted from March 1994 to March 2003.

Resuming service, between 10 and 15 February 2004, *Admiral Tributs* joined *Varyag* on a visit to Incheon, South Korea, to celebrate the centenary of the battle between *Varyag* and the Japanese fleet during the Battle of Chemulpo Bay. In 2005, the vessel took part in joint exercises with India, visited Tanjung Priok, Indonesia, Singapore. Sattahip, Thailand, Danang, Vietnam, Victoria, Seychelles and Klang, Malaysia, took part in exercises with *Moskva* and *Pyotr Velikiy* and joint exercises with the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force alongside *Admiral Panteleyev*. Following a visit to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, in April 2012, the vessel joined sisterships *Admiral Vinogradov* and *Marshal Shaposhnikov* for joint exercises with the People's Liberation Army Navy.

In February 2021, the ship conducted exercises in the Sea of Japan.

In late December 2021, *Admiral Tributs*, along with cruiser *Varyag*, left Vladivostok for a long deployment, consisting of port calls in several countries. On 11 January 2022, the warships entered the Indian Ocean, and called at Kochi on 14 January 2022.

In February 2022, in the context of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, *Admiral Tributs* entered the Mediterranean Sea, along with cruiser *Varyag* and tanker *Boris Butoma*, joining the Permanent task force of the Russian Navy in the Mediterranean Sea. In July 2022, *Admiral Tributs*, *Varyag* and intelligence ship *Vasily Tatishchev* became the first Russian Navy's ships operating in the Adriatic Sea since 1995 *Volk*'s deployment amid US bombardment of Bosnia and Herzegovina. In late July, destroyer *Admiral Tributs* operated off Šibenik, intelligence ship *Vasily Tatishchev* operated near island Palagruža, cruiser *Varyag* operated near Durres, while frigate *Admiral Grigorovich* remained just outside the Adriatic Sea. As the US carrier *Harry S. Truman* was located in the Adriatic Sea at the same time, there were reports in media about Russian warships blocking the US carrier in the Adriatic Sea.

In October 2022, *Admiral Tributs*, *Varyag* and *Boris Butoma* departed the Mediterranean via the Suez Canal, returning to Vladivostok on 18 November.

On 27 October 2023, *Admiral Tributs* and *Admiral Panteleyev* departed Indonesia after a friendly visit.