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''Storozhevoy'' was pursued by 10 bombers which put it out of action some six hours into the episode; Soviet marines backed by nine warships would storm the ship and retake it. Sablin and his second, Alexander Shein, would be the only conspirators placed on trial; the others were freed. Shein received an eight-year sentence, while Sablin, who would have been given 15 years, was sentenced to death on the personal orders of Brezhnev himself. Sablin was executed by firing squad on August 3, 1976.
''Storozhevoy'' was pursued by 10 bombers which put it out of action some six hours into the episode; Soviet marines backed by nine warships would storm the ship and retake it. Sablin and his second, Alexander Shein, would be the only conspirators placed on trial; the others were freed. Shein received an eight-year sentence, while Sablin, who would have been given 15 years, was sentenced to death on the personal orders of Brezhnev himself. Sablin was executed by firing squad on August 3, 1976.
''Storozhevoy'' was repaired and returned to service; after a change of crew she would be sent to ports all over Europe for the next several years, in effect a statement that the mutiny did not succeed. She would end her service in the Pacific Fleet, before being sold to India for scrap in the mid-1990s.
''Storozhevoy'' was repaired and returned to service; after a change of crew she would be sent to ports all over Europe for the next several years, in effect a statement that the mutiny did not succeed. She would end her service in the Pacific Fleet, before being sold to India for scrap in 2004.
Papers on the incident were filed in the United States Naval Institute in the early 1980's, which would in turn be discovered by a new author, Tom Clancy, who, like many at the time, concluded that Sablin had made a futile run for freedom. The unprecidented and audacious taking of a major warship to facilitate his defection led Clancy to base his first novel, ''The Hunt For Red October'', on the incident.
Papers on the incident were filed in the United States Naval Institute in the early 1980's, which would in turn be discovered by a new author, Tom Clancy, who, like many at the time, concluded that Sablin had made a futile run for freedom. The unprecidented and audacious taking of a major warship to facilitate his defection led Clancy to base his first novel, ''The Hunt For Red October'', on the incident.