Ukrainian frigate Otaman Bilyi

	SKR-112 scale model in the Balaklava Museum of Ukrainian Navy. At the bottom is turret control device from SKR-112
History
Soviet Union
Name	SKR-112
Builder	"Yantar", Kaliningrad
Launched	August 15, 1967
Commissioned	1968
Homeport	Crimean Naval Base, Soviet Union
Status	1992 handed over to the Ukrainian Navy
Ukraine
Name	U132 Otaman Bilyi (unofficial)
Acquired	1992
Decommissioned	December 31, 1993
Fate	Sold for scrap
General characteristics
Class and type	Petya-class frigate
Displacement	1,077 long tons (1,094 t) standard
Length	82.3 m (270 ft)
Beam	9.2 m (30 ft 2 in)
Draught	2.85 m (9 ft 4 in)
Installed power	2
Propulsion	2 × turboshaft engines M-2 (30,000 hp); 1 × diesel 61-B (6,000 hp);
Speed	33 knots (61 km/h; 38 mph)
Range	2,000 nmi (3,700 km; 2,300 mi) at 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph)
Endurance	10 days
Crew	108 (8 Officers)
Armament	2 × twin 76 mm (3 in) art system; 2 × RBU-6000 anti-submarine rocket launchers; 2 × 400 mm (16 in) quint torpedo tubes PTA-40-159; 22 × naval mines;

Otaman Bilyi (U132) (Ukrainian: Отаман Білий) was a Petya-class frigate of the Ukrainian Navy and formerly the Soviet frigate (guard ship) SKR-112.

Service history[edit]

The ship was laid down at the Yantar shipbuilding yard (factory number 191) on April 26, 1967. It entered the service on May 30, 1968 and on September 21 moved from Baltiysk to Sevastopol under jurisdiction of the Black Sea Fleet.

From August 30, 1969 to January 31, 1970 the frigate carried out service in the Mediterranean Sea military zone providing help to the Armed Forces of Egypt during the War of Attrition.

After the declaration of independence of Ukraine, it became the first warship that raised the Ukrainian flag and on July 21, 1992 made an unsanctioned move to Odesa.^[1] The initiator of the move was frigate captain Mykola Zhybarev.^[1]