The equipment of the floating base was capable of providing navigational and emergency repair of the hull, mechanisms and weapons and storage of 42 533-mm torpedoes in a special room.

[3] The defensive armaments of the ships consisted of four single-barreled 100-mm artillery mounts B-34USMA and four 57-mm twin installations ZIF-31 with the Ryf control radar, the sonar station was not provided.

After modernization, on two ships, instead of two aft 100-mm installations, a take-off and landing pad was equipped for basing one Ka-25 helicopter.

[3] The ship was built at Black Sea Shipyard in Mykolaiv and was launched on 11 September 1951 and commissioned on 29 December 1951.

The group included: an air defense post, headed by the Head of the Air Defense of the Flotilla, Captain 1st Rank A. N. Bulavchik, Chief of Communications of the Flotilla, Captain 1st Rank V. I. Sushko, Officer of the Political Department, Captain of the 2nd Rank V. E. Vergiles, two of the most trained operators, Warrant Officers E.M. Podpleta and Warrant Officers V. V. Grabovenko.