* All other units were initially named after storms of some sort, though by 2019 this naming convention had collapsed for no apparent reason. Exceptionally, Okhotsk seems to be named in some way after the Sea of Okhotsk, an inlet of the northern Pacific Ocean on the eastern coast of Russia, between the Kamchatka peninsula and the Kuril Islands. The Okhotsk Sea is bounded by the Siberian coast to the west and north, Kamchatka Peninsula on the east, the Kuril Island archipelago, Hokkaido and Sakhalin islands to the south. The village of this name was founded in 1647. This city-type settlement in Russia is the administrative and industrial center of the Okhotsk district of the Khabarovsk Territory. An ancient, god-forgotten land. The air here smells all the same - spicy, moist, salty, and the sky is forever covered with tight, velvet, shimmering clouds. There are no miracles happening here. As, in principle, nothing happens. Only the damp, intermittent breathing of the sea disturbs his universal peace.

It is possible that this name came from a river flowing in this area and flowing into the Sea of Okhotsk. The river is called "Ohata" ["Hunting"]. It is established that the origin of the name of the river is due to the use of the Even word "okat", which is translated into Russian as a river. Over time, the word "okat" was distorted to "ohat" and gave the name to the flowing river. Then, by analogy with the river, the village and the sea were named.

Or possibly the name is "Ohotnik" = "Hunter", which is a non-stormy name but at least a fitting name for such a ship.