Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Bayan Daular Rasha ta ci Khanate na Crimea a 1783, Ushakov da kansa ya kula da gina sansanin sojan ruwa a Sevastopol da kuma gina tashoshin jiragen ruwa a Kherson. A lokacin Russo-Turkish War (1787-92), ya ci nasara da Ottomans a Fidonisi (1788), Kerch Strait
(1790), Tendra (1790), da kuma Cape Kaliakra (1791). A cikin wadannan fadace-fadace, ya nuna basirar koyarwarsa na kirkire-kirkire a cikin fasahar yaƙin teku.