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.

[1] 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.

As usual in the Magadan region, especially in the Susumansky, Tenkinsky and Yagodninsky districts, there were many forest fires in the summer.

Having heard such a warning from the person on duty on the loudspeaker, the political officer makes a decision to leave the torpedo unit and flood the compartment.

From the story of Georgy Lobyshev, it became clear that the signaling cable passed in the highway above the place of the fire and burned out safely with everyone else.

As a result, during the cable burnout, a short circuit occurred and the current in the network increased, the arrow on the milliammeter went off scale.