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| Tonnage | 7756 tons standard displacement |
| Dimensions | 626'8" by 57'11" by 23'9" 191.0m by 17.65m by 7.24m |
| Maximum speed | 36 knots |
| Complement |
872 |
| Aircraft |
1 catapult 1 seaplane |
| Armament | 3x3 7.1" guns 8x1 3.34" guns 10x1 37mm AA guns 6 0.50 machine guns 2x3 21" torpedo tubes 60 mines |
| Protection |
2.75" (70mm) belt and bulkheads 2" (50mm) deck 2.75"/2"/2.75"/2" (70mm/50mm/70mm/50mm) turret faces/sides/roofs/rears 2.75" (70mm) barbettes 5.9"/2" (150mm/50mm) conning tower sides/roof 1.2" (30mm) steering box |
| Machinery |
2-shaft geared turbine (113,000
shp) 6 Yarrow-Normand boilers |
| Bunkerage | 1280 tons fuel oil |
| Range | 3750 nautical miles 6940 km) at 18 knots |
| Modifications |
May have received radar by the end of the war |
The Kirovs were
modern cruisers constructed by the Soviet Union at the Vladivostok naval
base as well as other Navy yards.
They were the first large warships
laid down in Russia since the October Revolution of 1917. Ironically,
with Russian industry still struggling to modernize in 1933, the
Russians sought Italian assistance
in their design and they were based on the light cruiser Raimondo Montecuccoli. The design
was modified for the heavy seas and severe icing of the Baltic.
Neither participated actively in the brief period of Russian hostilities against Japan, but would doubtless have been employed against any significant light forces that Japan might have scraped together against the Russian landings in the Kuriles. Armed with 7-inch guns, they were technically heavy cruisers but were intermediate between the heavy and light cruisers of those nations that adhered to the Washington naval limitations.
| Kalinin | completed 1942-12 (Vladivostok) |
| Kaganovich | completed 1944-12 (Vladivostok) |
References
Gogin (2010; accessed 2012-12-26)
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