Review of Russian destroyers of project 956. The Northern Fleet conducted a comprehensive exercise "Kumzha-2023", during which the sailors demonstrated their combat capabilities and tactics. About fifteen surface vessels, submarines and support ships, as well as aircraft and helicopters of the Air Force and Air Defense Army were involved in the maneuvers. The Russian destroyer "Admiral Ushakov" of project 956-A was spotted at the exercises. The first destroyer of the third generation of project 956 was commissioned in 1980, now Russia has 2 ships of this project and 2 are in reserve. The fate of the ships of this project was not easy, steam boilers on ships of this type required the close attention of the crew, they were demanding on the water supplied and failed if the quality of their service was violated. Unfortunately, due to problems in the fleet in the nineties, some ships of this project actually went only 6 years, with a given service life of more than 20 years. It is worth noting that four Project 956 ships are still part of the Chinese fleet, one of them was built in 1994. The armament of the first ships of this project, 130-mm AK-130 naval artillery mounts, 30-mm AK-630 anti-aircraft artillery systems. Eight P-270 Moskit anti-ship missiles. The Uragan air defense system and two RBU-1000 six-barrel rocket launchers, the ship has two double 533-mm torpedo tubes and a Ka-27 helicopter. The ship at one time was not bad enough, had its weak points, but its time is running out. The total displacement of the ship is 7,904 tons, the cruising range is up to 4,500 miles, and the speed is 33 knots. The autonomy of the vessel is 30 days, the crew is 296 people.