The Black Sea Fleet frigate Admiral Makarov is sailing from Sevastopol to the Mediterranean Sea, says press center of RF Defence Ministry.
At present, the ship is passing through the Bosphorus and Dardanelles Straits (the Turkish Straits).
The ship completed a complex of naval combat exercises in the fleet's combat training zones.
Together with the Ka-27PL crews, the sailors practised takeoffs and landings on the frigate deck, conducted training sessions on the search and tracking of a submarine. Ship crews held trainings to check air control systems of the vessel ensuring helicopter flights.
It is planned that today, by the end of the day, the ship will join the forces of the Russian task force the Navy in the Mediterranean.