SEVASTOPOL, April 23. /TASS/. The Black Sea Fleet frigate Admiral Grigorovich has joined the Russian Navy’s permanent Mediterranean task force and started to accomplish missions in distant waters, the Fleet’s press office reported on Tuesday.

"The Black Sea Fleet’s frigate Admiral Grigorovich has started to perform assignments as part of the Navy’s grouping in the Mediterranean Sea. … For the frigate’s crew, this is the first deployment in the current training year to perform assigned missions in the Mediterranean Sea," the statement says.

During its transit from Sevastopol to the Mediterranean Sea, the frigate’s crew carried out a set of shipborne combat training drills at the Fleet’s practice ranges in the Black Sea. Jointly with the crews of Ka-27M helicopters, the sailors practiced operations during the rotorcraft’s takeoffs and landings on the frigate’s deck and held training sessions for the shipborne teams providing for helicopter flights. The frigate’s personnel also practiced searching for and tracking a submarine.

The Admiral Grigorovich is the Project 11356 lead frigate (the guard ship according to the domestic classification). The warship displaces more than 4,000 tonnes and is 125 meters long. The frigate is armed with the Kalibr-NK cruise missile system.