Mutiny on the warship "STOROZHEVOYA"

As usual at such celebrations, the battleships and submarines of the USSR Navy were anchored in the Daugava near Riga Castle. One of them is the "Storozhevoj", "bolshoy protivolodochnyj korabl" or large anti-submarine ship. So the 36-year-old zampolit (deputy commander for political work) or third-rank captain Mikhail Sablin decides to start a revolution and become its leader, to go with the whole ship to the cradle of the revolution, Petrograd or Leningrad, and light the fire of a new revolution among the masses. He seems to be a staunch idealist who has carefully studied all the works of the classics of Marxism-Leninism and is able to quote them accurately and precisely when necessary. Sablin is convinced that the General Secretary of the Communist Party, Brezhnev, and his clique have betrayed the ideals of the revolution and communism, have become thoroughly corrupt, and are leading the country towards the abyss. And that's why only a new revolution can save the country, and someone must start and lead it.
Sablin manages to convince part of the ship's crew of the correctness of his idea, the ship's captain and some of the officers, who do not want to participate in this event and do not show any active resistance, are locked in separate rooms of the ship.
On November 8, 1975, Sablin addresses the ship's crew and invites them to weigh anchor and sail to Leningrad, towards a new and beautiful future. Since he has won the respect and trust of the ship's crew, he succeeds, although not without some careful preparations. One of the officers manages to escape and descend onto a nearby submarine using one of the ship's ropes, where he raises the alarm about a mutiny on board. At first, no one wants to believe in something so fantastic...
“Storozhevoj” weighs anchor and, without a pilot, under the guidance of Sablin, goes down the Daugava and, passing the Daugavgrīva lighthouse, goes at full speed in the direction of Cape Kolka and the Irbe Strait. While the alarm is raised on the shore and Moscow is hurriedly reported, the ship, illuminated only by camouflage lights, rushes towards the open waters of the Baltic Sea. It does not take long before other ships of the navy begin to pursue it, bombers take off from Rumbula airport and General Secretary Brezhnev himself gives the command from Moscow – to bomb and sink the ship!
The Irbe Strait area is covered in thick fog, which temporarily saves the “Storoževa”. Due to the fog, the aircraft mistakes the pursuers for fugitives and discovers erroneous fire, but the misunderstanding is cleared up and the pursuit continues in full force.
The attack planes stationed there are taken into the air from the Tukums airfield, because there is a suspicion that the pilots in the air do not understand why their own people must be bombed and are inexplicably hesitating, not wanting to carry out the order. The attack planes are ordered to damage the steering gear of the fleeing ship in order to stop it. Bombs are dropped and one of them hits the steering gear and the ship is no longer able to continue its escape... it is taken over by paratroopers.
Such grandiose military activities almost in the middle of the Baltic Sea cause panic at the Swedish military observation station on the island of Faro near Gotland. They are stunned and are already expecting a military strike, seeing a squadron of warships coming in their direction, accompanied by serious aviation forces. However, after stopping the fleeing ship, everything calms down, the Swedes can wipe off their sweat of fear....
The arrested ship's crew is taken to Riga for interrogation, where it is subjected to processing by the KGB, but the main mutineer Sablin is kept in the Karosta guardhouse for two weeks under a different surname, taken to Moscow and placed in Lefortovo prison. There he is charged with treason, the desire to escape with the entire ship to Sweden, and other sins. He is sentenced and executed, even his family to this day does not know where his grave is.
The crew of the “Storozhevoy” was punished and disbanded. However, since rumors spread that something bad had happened on the ship, in order to deceive foreigners, the “Storozhevoy” demonstratively sailed along the northern shores of the Baltic Sea, demonstrating to everyone that everything was in perfect order. The USSR stubbornly denied for 15 years that there had been a mutiny on the ship.

In foreign military classification, "Storozhevoj" is referred to as a "Krivak"-class frigate.
Its length is 123 meters, width is 14m, and draft is 7m.
The ship's speed is 32 knots, and it is propelled forward by 4 gas turbine engines.
Crew – 180 sailors.
Armament includes missile systems, artillery, torpedoes and mines.