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Mutiny on the Storozhevoy

MISSION OBJECTIVE:
ESCAPE INTO THE BALTIC SEA WHILE SURVIVING THE SOVIET ONSLAUGHT.

HISTORY:

The Storozhevoy mutiny inspired the Tom Clancy novel The Hunt for Red October, which was adapted into a 1990 film of the same name.

The mutiny was led by the ship's political commissar, Captain of the Third Rank Valery Sablin, who wished to protest against the rampant corruption of the Leonid Brezhnev era.
Sablin's aim was to protest against the rampant corruption of the Leonid Brezhnev era. His goal was to seize the ship and steer it out of the Bay of Riga, to Leningrad through the Neva River, moor alongside the museum ship Aurora, an old symbol of the Russian revolution, and broadcast a nationwide address to the people from there. Sablin was not successful in his mutiny and got caught.

At his trial in July 1976, Sablin was convicted of high treason and was executed by firing squad on 3 August 1976, while Shein was sentenced to prison and was released after serving eight years. The rest of the mutineers were set free, but dishonorably discharged from the Soviet Navy.

Storozhevoy was officially transferred to the Pacific Fleet on 10 November 1975.