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Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Муравьёв-Амурский [Muravyov-Amurskiy]		893	Schichau, Danzig, Germany	23.9.1913	11.4.1914	14.12.1914 // ---	completed for Germany (Pillau)
Адмирал Невельской [Admiral Nevelskoy]		894	Schichau, Danzig, Germany	23.9.1913	21.11.1914	4.9.1915 // ---	completed for Germany (Elbing)

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	4390
Displacement full, t	5252
Length, m	135.3 oa 134.3 wl
Breadth, m	13.6
Draught, m	5.98 deep load
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 Marine steam turbines, 10 Yarrow boilers
Power, h. p.	30000
Max speed, kts	27.5
Fuel, t	coal 620 + oil 580
Endurance, nm(kts)	4300(12)
Armour, mm	deck: 80 - 20, slopes: 40, CT: 75, shields: 50
Armament	8 x 1 - 130/53, 4 x 1 - 63/36 Obukhov, 5 - 450 TT (1 bow, 4 beam), 150 mines
Complement	359

Standard scale images

Project history

Authorised under the 1912 Programme for the Far Eastern station, they reflected the Russian view on the light type of protected cruiser, in common use in these waters before the Russo-Japanese War. In all respects they were a reduced version of the Svetlana class being built in home yards at that time. Their silhouettes were standartised with those of the mentioned cruisers and 35kts destroyers. Both ships were requisitioned by the German Government on 5 August 1914 and completed for the Kaiserliche Marine as Elbing and Pillau respectively.

Ship protection

Protective deck (2 steel layers and 1 Krupp steel layer) above machinery had 80mm flat and 40mm slopes, ship ends were protected by 20mm deck with 40mm slopes. CT had 75mm sides and 50mm roof, guns had 50mm shields.

Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.