Russian frigate Vorovskiy

Vorovskiy (also transliterated Vorovsky, Russian: Воровский) was a Project 11351 Nerey-class frigate (NATO reporting name Krivak III) of the Soviet Border Troops and later the Coast Guard of the Federal Security Service of Russia.

Defence against aircraft was provided by twenty 4K33 OSA-M (SA-N-4 'Gecko') surface-to-air missiles which were launched from one set of twin-arm ZIF-122 launchers, mounted aft of the fore 100 mm gun.

[9] 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.

Rekin's 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.

Rekin kept ignoring warning shots fired by the frigate, instead sending SOS signals declaring that they were pursued by an unknown warship.

In summer of that year, Vorovskiy along with USCGC Munro and C-130 Hercules of the United States Coast Guard 17th District took part in a joint exercise.

The patronage agreement includes military-patriotic education, delegations exchange, and facilitating the recruitment of Novosibirsk citizens for contract service on the ship.

[19] 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.

Vorovskiy on 23 August 2009
Vorovskiy rendezvous with USCGC Jarvis near Kodiak, Alaska on 10 April 2004 during an Alaskan patrol
USCGC Polar Star and Mellon (foreground), with Vorovskiy and Yashima (background) in Seattle during the 10th NPCGF , 27 August 2009