Kerch was laid down in the Soviet Union on 30 April 1971, launched on 21 July 1972 and was commissioned in the Soviet Black Sea Fleet on 25 December 1974. The ship was constructed in the 61 Kommunar Shipyard at Nikolayev (Mykolaiv) on the Black Sea. She was in service with the Soviet Fleet until 1991, and then joined its successor, Russian Navy.
Kerch in 1986 as part of the Soviet navy.
On 4 November 2014 a fire broke out aboard the ship during a routine servicing in Sevastopol. According to officials nobody was injured and the fire was contained to the ship's aft.[2] On April 24, 2020, the ship was towed away from her dock for the scrapyard.[3][4] Satellite images published in Google Earth show several stages of the ship's demolition in Inkerman (44°36′29″N33°35′56″E / 44.608°N 33.599°E / 44.608; 33.599) between May and the end of 2020.
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^"Большой противолодочный корабль "Керчь" решили разрезать на металл". meta. 30 December 2014. Retrieved 1 January 2015.
^"Fire contained on board large submarine chaser Kerch in Russia's Sevastopol". TASS. 4 November 2014. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
^"Demolitioned Naval Vessel – RFS KERCH 753 – April 2020". 28 April 2020.
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