Ukrainian frigate Otaman Bilyi

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|section2={{Infobox ship/career |hide_header= |country=Soviet Union |flag={{shipboxflag|Soviet Union|naval}} |name=''SKR-112'' |namesake = |owner = |operator = |ordered = |awarded = |builder = "Yantar", Kaliningrad |yard_number = |laid_down = |launched = August 15, 1967 |sponsor = |christened = |completed = |acquired = |commissioned = 1968 |homeport = Crimean Naval Base, Soviet Union |fate =1992 handed over to the Ukrainian Navy }}

|section3={{Infobox ship/career | hide_header = title | country = Ukraine | flag = {{shipboxflag|Ukraine|naval}} | name = U132 ''Otaman Bilyi'' (unofficial) | renamed = | acquired = 1992 | decommissioned = December 31, 1993 | fate = Sold for scrap<ref name="461879_krim_U132"/> }}

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'''''Otaman Bilyi'' (U132)''' ({{langx|uk|Отаман Білий}}) was a {{sclass2|Petya|frigate}} of the Ukrainian Navy and formerly the Soviet frigate (guard ship) ''SKR-112''.

==Service history== 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. left|thumb|SKR-112 on July 21, 1992 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.<ref name="461879_krim_U132"/> The initiator of the move was frigate captain Mykola Zhybarev.<ref name="461879_krim_U132">{{cite news |title="Crimea should be Ukrainian, but without bloodshed." How Ukraine saved the peninsula 25 years ago|url=https://lb.ua/news/2020/07/16/461879_krim_maie_buti_ukrainskim_ale_bez.html |work={{ill|Lb.ua|uk|Lb.ua}} |date=16 July 2020|language=Ukrainian}}<br>{{cite news |title="I'm going to Odesa! Raise the blue-yellow flag." The story of the feat of the SKR-112 crew|url=https://www.istpravda.com.ua/articles/2023/03/7/162460/|work=Istorychna Pravda ("Historical Truth") |date=9 March 2023|language=Ukrainian}}</ref>

==References== {{reflist}}

==External links== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20110501234458/http://avtonomka.ru/tales/document358.shtml An excerpt from the memoirs of Admiral of the Fleet Vladimir Chernavina "Fleet in the fate of Russia", Moscow, "St. Andrew's Flag"]. * [http://fleet.sebastopol.ua/index.php?article_to_view=1773 Will Ukraine recognize the commander of SKR-112 Sherhiy Nastenko hero?] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140324081958/http://fleet.sebastopol.ua/index.php?article_to_view=1773 |date=2014-03-24 }} * [http://ukrlife.org/main/uacrim/daniloff20.htm And we go without changing course!..] * [http://www.aratta-ukraine.com/text_ua.php?id=1049 Ship SKR-112 - the legend of the Ukrainian Navy] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100902014852/http://www.aratta-ukraine.com/text_ua.php?id=1049 |date=2010-09-02 }} * [http://flot.sevastopol.info/ship/skr/skr112.htm SKR-112] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20081014081236/http://mycityua.com/history/2006/07/21/090037.html Anniversary of the Ukrainian "Potemkin"] * [http://www.svitlytsia.crimea.ua/index.php?section=article&artID=4651 To the 15th anniversary of revival the Naval Forces of Ukraine] * [http://www.svoboda-news.com/arxiv/pdf/1996/Svoboda-1996-147.pdf About "SKR-112" no one cares]. Svoboda № 147. August 2, 1996

{{DEFAULTSORT:Otaman Bilyi (U132)}} Category:1968 ships Category:Ships built at Yantar Shipyard Category:Petya-class frigates of the Ukrainian Navy Category:Cold War frigates of the Soviet Union