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Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comm	Fate
Свердлов [Sverdlov]		408	189 Ordzhonikidze Yd, Leningrad	15.10.1949	5.7.1950	15.5.1952	stricken 5.1989
Жданов [Zhdanov], 2.1989- КРУ-101 [KRU-101]		419	189 Ordzhonikidze Yd, Leningrad	11.2.1950	27.12.1950	31.12.1952	command cruiser 12.1971, stricken 4.1990
Адмирал Ушаков [Admiral Ushakov]		420	196 Yd (Sudomekh), Leningrad	31.8.1950	29.9.1951	8.9.1953	stricken 9.1987
Александр Суворов [Aleksandr Suvorov]		436	189 Ordzhonikidze Yd, Leningrad	26.2.1951	15.5.1952	31.12.1953	stricken 12.1989
Адмирал Сенявин [Admiral Senyavin]		437	189 Ordzhonikidze Yd, Leningrad	31.10.1951	22.12.1952	30.11.1954	command cruiser 3.1973, stricken 5.1989
Дмитрий Пожарский [Dmitriy Pozharskiy]		445	189 Ordzhonikidze Yd, Leningrad	28.2.1952	25.6.1953	31.12.1954	stricken 3.1987
Дзержинский [Dzerzhinskiy]		374	444 Marti Yd, Nikolayev	21.12.1948	31.8.1950	18.8.1952	training cruiser 8.1961, stricken 10.1988
Адмирал Нахимов [Admiral Nakhimov]		375	444 Marti Yd, Nikolayev	27.6.1950	29.6.1951	27.3.1953	stricken 7.1960
Михаил Кутузов [Mikhail Kutuzov]		385	444 Marti Yd, Nikolayev	23.2.1951	29.11.1951	30.12.1954	stricken 8.1998
Орджоникидзе [Ordzhonikidze]		600	194 Marti Yd, Leningrad	19.10.1949	17.9.1950	18.8.1952	to Indonesia 1.1963 (Irian)
Александр Невский [Aleksandr Nevskiy]		625	194 Marti Yd, Leningrad	30.5.1950	7.6.1951	31.12.1952	stricken 5.1989
Адмирал Лазарев [Admiral Lazarev]		626	194 Marti Yd, Leningrad	6.2.1951	29.6.1952	30.12.1953	stricken 10.1986
Молотовск [Molotovsk], 8.1957- Октябрьская Революция [Oktyabr'skaya Revoliutsiya]		301	402 Yd, Molotovsk	15.7.1952	25.5.1954	30.11.1954	stricken 9.1987
Мурманск [Murmansk]		302	402 Yd, Molotovsk	28.1.1953	24.4.1955	22.9.1955	stricken 7.1992

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	13600
Displacement full, t	16640
Length, m	210.0
Breadth, m	21.99
Draught, m	7.38
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 TV-7 geared steam turbines sets, 6 KV-68 boilers
Power, h. p.	110000
Max speed, kts	32.7
Fuel, t	oil
Endurance, nm(kts)	5700(17)
Armour, mm	belt: 100 - 20, bulkheads: 120 - 100, deck: 50 - 20, turrets: 175, barbettes: 130, CT: 130
Armament	Sverdlov, Ordzhonikidze: 4 x 3 - 152/59 MK-5-bis, 6 x 2 - 100/70 SM-5-1, 16 x 2 - 37/70 V-11, 2 x 5 - 533 TT, 40 - 132 mines Dzerzhinskiy, Zhdanov: 4 x 3 - 152/59 MK-5-bis, 6 x 2 - 100/70 SM-5-1, 16 x 2 - 37/70 V-11M, 2 x 5 - 533 TT, 40 - 132 mines Aleksandr Nevskiy, Admiral Nakhimov, Admiral Ushakov, Admiral Lazarev, Aleksandr Suvorov, Molotovsk, Murmansk: 4 x 3 - 152/59 MK-5-bis, 6 x 2 - 100/70 SM-5-1s, 16 x 2 - 37/70 V-11, 2 x 5 - 533 TT, 40 - 132 mines Admiral Senyavin, Dmitriy Pozharskiy, Mikhail Kutuzov: 4 x 3 - 152/59 MK-5-bis, 6 x 2 - 100/70 SM-5-1s, 16 x 2 - 37/70 V-11M, 2 x 5 - 533 TT, 40 - 132 mines
Electronic equipment	Sverdlov, Ordzhonikidze, Dzerzhinskiy, Zhdanov: Rif, Giuys-2, 2x Neptun, 2x Zalp, 2x Yakor', Zaria radars, Tamir-5N sonar Aleksandr Nevskiy, Admiral Nakhimov, Admiral Ushakov, Admiral Lazarev, Aleksandr Suvorov, Molotovsk, Admiral Senyavin, Dmitriy Pozharskiy, Mikhail Kutuzov: Rif, Giuys-2, 2x Neptun, 2x Zalp, 2x Yakor'-M, Zaria radars, Tamir-5N sonar Murmansk: Rif, Giuys-2, 2x Neptun, 2x Zalp, 2x Yakor'-M2, Zaria radars, Tamir-5N sonar
Complement	1270

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Project history

These large light cruisers were enlarged versions of the prewar Chapaev (Project 68). They had the same machinery, main armament and side protection, but had much increased fuel capacity and introduced an all-welded hull and a new type of underwater protection (incuding a i: double bottom over 75 per cent of their length, and twenty-three watertight bulkheads). These ships had new fire control radars as well as new types of directors (stabilised SPN-500 for the 100mm guns). Their version of the MK-5 of the Chapaev class; the stabilised German-style 100mm/70 (SM-5-1) secondary mounts were new. The Zenit-68-bis AA fire control system could control both the secondary guns and 37mm light AA guns. The torpedo fire control system employed both optical rangefinders and a dedicated radar (Zarya). The Project 68bis design was formally approved on 27 May 1947, three month before the 68K version to which the Chapaevs were completed. The first three ships were named after Chapaevs abandoned incomplete in 1941: Sverdlov, Ordzhonikidze, Dzerzhinskiy.

On trials Sverdlov made 114000shp=32.69kts and 121700shp=33.04kts. Reportedly the rated endurance of 9000nm was 1600nm above the design figure. Reportedly, too, Sverdlov came out 370t light at 13230t standard.

The postwar ten-year plan originally called for thirty cruisers. One account of the Sverdlov claims that five were dropped in favour of the three Project 82s, but it seems more likely that the five Chapaevs counted as the first five postwar cruisers. At Stalin's death, the class was cut to twenty-one ships. After the first fifteen were laid down, the Soviet Navy ordered the remaining six (none was completed) protected against radioactive fallout as Project 68bis-ZIF. It appears that plans were soon made to convert all these ships to missile units (Protect 75). The early 1956 decision to stop construction presumably followed the October 1955 cancellation of Project 75. When work stopped, Admiral Kornilov was nearly complete, and she alone of the incomplete ships was hulked. In 1959 all the others were ordered broken up by the end of 1961.

In appearance these ships generally resembled the Chapaev, but with their hull plating carried much further aft, with an additional pair of twin 100mm mounts near the bridge, and a taller cap to their second funnels.

Ship protection

Main 100mm belt (3.3m high) protected space between end barbettes and was closed by 120mm fore and 100mm aft bulkheads, there was thin 20mm belt between citadel and ship ends. 50mm flat main deck connected with upper edge of main belt, outside citadel it was 20mm. Steering gear compartment had 100mm sides and 20mm roof. CT had 130mm sides, 100mm roof and 30mm deck, secondary CT had 10mm protection. Main turrets had 175mm faces, 65mm sides, 60mm rears and 75mm roofs. Barbettes were protected by 130mm armour. Secondary turrets had 20mm faces, sides and rears, 10mm roofs and 20mm barbettes.

Modernizations

1953, Dzerzhinskiy: - 2x Yakor' radars; + 2x Yakor'-M radars

1954, Admiral Nakhimov - under project 68E: - 2 x 3 - 152/59, 2 x 2 - 100/70, 2 x 2 - 37/70; + 1 x 1 KSShch SSM (1 KSS)

1954, Dzerzhinskiy: + Korall ECM suite

3/1955, Admiral Nakhimov - under project 68ER: - 1 x 1 KSShch SSM (V-8 launcher) (1 KSS); + 1 x 1 KSShch SSM (V-16 launcher) (1 KSS)

1955, Admiral Nakhimov - under project 67EP: - 1 x 1 KSShch SSM; + 1 x 1 KSShch SSM (V-16E launcher) (4 KSS)

1956, Mikhail Kutuzov; 1957, Dmitriy Pozharskiy, Molotovsk: + P-8 radar

1956, Admiral Senyavin, Dzerzhinskiy, Zhdanov: + Krab ECM suite

1957, Admiral Ushakov; 1961, Dzerzhinskiy: + Krab-11 ECM suite

1957-1976, Admiral Lazarev, Admiral Ushakov, Aleksandr Nevskiy, Aleksandr Suvorov, Dmitriy Pozharskiy, Mikhail Kutuzov, Oktyabrskaya Revolyutsiya, Sverdlov: + Krab-12 ECM suite

1958-1962, all: - 2 x 5 - 533 TT, Zaria radar

1958, Aleksandr Nevskiy, Dmitriy Pozharskiy: + P-500 Kliver radar

7/1961, Sverdlov: - Rif radar; + Fut-N radar

(10/1957-8/1962), Dzerzhinskiy - under project 70E: - 1 x 3 - 152/59, 8 x 2 - 37/70, 2 x 5 - 533 TT, 2x Zalp, Zaria radars; + 1 x 2 M-2 Volkhov SAM (10 V-750), P-500 Kliver, Fut-N, MR-200 Kaktus, Razliv radars; 12970/16070t, 7.2m draught, 32kts, 7400(17)nm, compl. 1266.

1958-1967, Admiral Senyavin, Dmitriy Pozharskiy, Admiral Ushakov, Aleksandr Suvorov, Murmansk, Sverdlov: + P-10 radar

1966, Sverdlov: - Fut-N radar; + Kil'-U radar

1967, Mikhail Kutuzov; 1969, Oktyabrskaya Revolyutsiya: - P-8 radar; + Kil'-U, P-10 radars

1969-1970, Admiral Senyavin, Aleksandr Suvorov, Dmitriy Pozharskiy: - P-10 radar; + P-12 Yenisey radar

1969-1970, Admiral Ushakov, Oktyabrskaya Revolyutsiya, Murmansk, Sverdlov, Mikhail Kutuzov: - P-10 radar

(4/1969-10/1970), Dmitriy Pozharskiy; (10/1966-9/1967), Mikhail Kutuzov: - 4 x 2 - 37/70

(10/1965-11/1971), Zhdanov - under project 68U1: - 1 x 3 - 152/59, Giuys-2, 2x Neptun radars; + 1 x 2 4K33 Osa-M SAM (20 9M33), 4 x 2 - 30/71 AK-230, Kil', Don, 4R-33, 2x MR-104 Rys' radars, Krab-11 ECM suite, Planshet CCS; 14340/17890t, 7.8m draught, 32kts, 5800(17)nm, compl. 1083.

(12/1966-7/1972), Admiral Senyavin - under project 68U2: - 2 x 3 - 152/59, Giuys-2, Rif, 2x Neptun radars; + 1 x 2 4K33 Osa-M SAM (20 9M33), 8 x 2 - 30/71 AK-230, 1 helicopter (Ka-25), Kil'-U, MR-302 Rubka, Don, 4R-33, 4x MR-104 Rys' radars, Krab-11 ECM suite, Planshet CCS; 14350/17890t, 7.8m draught, 32.4kts, 6940(18)nm, compl. 856.

1970s, Admiral Lazarev: - 6 x 2 - 37/70; + P-20 radar

(12/1972-12/1976), Oktyabrskaya Revolyutsiya; (1973-1979), Aleksandr Suvorov - under project 68A: - 4 x 2 - 37/70, Giuys-2, 2x Neptun radars; + 8 x 2 - 30/71 AK-230, Kil'-U, Don, 4x MR-104 Rys' radars, Machta-P4, Machta-P10 ECM suites; 14600/18090t, 7.8m draught, 32kts, 6450(18.2)nm, compl. 1257

((5/1974-12/1978), Admiral Ushakov - under project 68A: - 4 x 2 - 37/70, Giuys-2, 2x Neptun radars; + 8 x 2 - 30/71 AK-230, Kil'-U, Don, 4x MR-104 Rys' radars, Krab-11, Krab-12 ECM suites; 14600/18090t, 7.8m draught, 32kts, 6450(18.2)nm, compl. 1257

(9/1979-4/1986), Mikhail Kutuzov - under project 68A: - Giuys-2, 2x Zalp, 2x Neptun radars; + 8 x 2 - 30/71 AK-230, Kil'-U, Don, 2x Zalp-M2, 4x MR-104 Rys' radars, Machta-P4, Machta-P10 ECM suites; 14600/18090t, 7.8m draught, 32kts, 6450(18.2)nm, compl. 1257

Naval service

All were classified as light cruisers and were re-rated in June 1977 as cruisers.