Tuhia he tomokanga mo tenei waahanga - I muri i te wikitoria a te Russian Empire i te Crimean Khanate i te tau 1783, i whakahaerehia e Ushakov te hanganga o te turanga moana i Sevastopol me te hanga tauranga i Kherson. I te Pakanga o Ruhia-Turiki (1787-92), i hinga ia i nga Ottoman i Fidonisi (1788), Kerch Strait
(1790), Tendra (1790), me Cape Kaliakra (1791). I roto i enei pakanga, i whakaatuhia e ia te mohio o ana kaupapa hou i roto i te toi o te pakanga moana.