These are dedicated ASW ships with significant anti-aircraft capability including both SA-N-3 and SA-N-4 surface-to-air missiles.

From 24 February to 3 July 1979, as part of a detachment of ships of the aircraft carrier Minsk and Tashkent made the transition from Sevastopol around Africa to Vladivostok, with the fulfillment of tasks combat service and business calls to Luanda, Maputo and Port Louis.

In 1980, the ship's crew was awarded the pennant of the USSR Minister of Defense for courage and military valor shown in sea voyages while performing combat service.

The ship housed the headquarters of the operation to recover the wreckage of the South Korean Boeing, shot down on 1 September 1983 near Moneron Island.

In 1996, the ship was disarmed, on May 26, 1997, it was withdrawn from the Navy, in June of the same year it was sent in tow to India for scrap.