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Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate	Modification
Спокойный [Spokoynyy]		701	190 Zhdanov Yd, Leningrad	4.3.1953	28.11.1953	27.6.1956	stricken 4.1990	project 56
Светлый [Svetlyy]		702	190 Zhdanov Yd, Leningrad	4.3.1953	27.10.1953	17.9.1955	stricken 4.1989	project 56
Спешный [Speshnyy]		703	190 Zhdanov Yd, Leningrad	30.5.1953	7.8.1954	30.9.1955	stricken 4.1989	project 56
Скромный [Skromnyy]		704	190 Zhdanov Yd, Leningrad	27.7.1953	26.10.1954	30.12.1955	stricken 4.1989	project 56
Сведущий [Svedushchiy]		705	190 Zhdanov Yd, Leningrad	7.12.1953	17.2.1955	31.1.1956	stricken 4.1992	project 56
Смышлёный [Smyshlionyy], 10.1958- Московский комсомолец [Moskovskiy komsomolets]		706	190 Zhdanov Yd, Leningrad	23.2.1954	24.5.1955	28.6.1956	stricken 7.1986	project 56
Скрытный [Skrytnyy]		707	190 Zhdanov Yd, Leningrad	25.7.1954	27.9.1955	30.9.1956	stricken 4.1989	project 56
Сознательный [Soznatelnyy]		708	190 Zhdanov Yd, Leningrad	25.9.1954	15.1.1956	31.10.1956	stricken 3.1988	project 56
Справедливый [Spravedlivyy]		709	190 Zhdanov Yd, Leningrad	25.12.1954	12.4.1956	20.12.1956	to Poland 6.1970 (Warszawa)	project 56
Несокрушимый [Nesokrushimyy]		710	190 Zhdanov Yd, Leningrad	15.6.1955	20.7.1956	30.6.1957	target 12.1987	project 56
Находчивый [Nakhodchivyy]		741	190 Zhdanov Yd, Leningrad	19.10.1955	30.10.1956	18.9.1957	stricken 4.1989	project 56
Настойчивый [Nastoychivyy]		742	190 Zhdanov Yd, Leningrad	3.3.1956	23.4.1957	30.11.1957	stricken 4.1989	project 56
Блестящий [Blestyashchiy]		1201	445 61 Kommunar Yd, Nikolayev	20.2.1953	27.11.1953	30.9.1955	stricken 7.1987	project 56
Бывалый [Byvalyy]		1202	445 61 Kommunar Yd, Nikolayev	6.5.1953	31.3.1954	21.12.1955	stricken 7.1988	project 56
Бесследный [Besslednyy]		1205	445 61 Kommunar Yd, Nikolayev	1.4.1954	5.11.1955	31.10.1956	stricken 4.1988	project 56
Бурливый [Burlivyy]		1206	445 61 Kommunar Yd, Nikolayev	5.5.1954	28.1.1956	28.12.1956	stricken 5.1989	project 56
Благородный [Blagorodnyy]		1207	445 61 Kommunar Yd, Nikolayev	5.3.1955	30.8.1956	18.7.1957	stricken 4.1989	project 56
Пламенный [Plamennyy]		1208	445 61 Kommunar Yd, Nikolayev	3.9.1955	26.10.1956	31.8.1957	stricken 6.1991	project 56
Напористый [Naporistyy]		1209	445 61 Kommunar Yd, Nikolayev	17.8.1955	30.12.1956	31.10.1957	stricken 7.1987	project 56
Вызывающий [Vyzyvayushchiy]		81	199 Yd, Komsomolsk-on-Amur	25.7.1953	20.5.1955	31.3.1956	stricken 4.1989	project 56
Веский [Veskiy]		82	199 Yd, Komsomolsk-on-Amur	30.1.1954	31.7.1955	30.3.1956	stricken 7.1987	project 56
Вдохновенный [Vdokhnovennyy]		83	199 Yd, Komsomolsk-on-Amur	31.8.1954	7.5.1956	31.10.1956	stricken 3.1987	project 56
Возмущённый [Vozmushchionnyy]		84	199 Yd, Komsomolsk-on-Amur	30.12.1954	8.7.1956	31.12.1956	stricken 3.1987	project 56
Возбуждённый [Vozbuzhdionnyy]		85	199 Yd, Komsomolsk-on-Amur	29.7.1955	10.5.1957	31.10.1957	stricken 4.1989	project 56
Влиятельный [Vliyatelnyy]		86	199 Yd, Komsomolsk-on-Amur	29.10.1955	10.5.1957	6.11.1957	stricken 7.1988	project 56
Выдержанный [Vyderzhannyy], 2.1967- Дальневосточный комсомолец [Dalnevostochnyy komsomolets]		87	199 Yd, Komsomolsk-on-Amur	30.6.1956	24.6.1957	10.12.1957	accommodation hulk 4.1992	project 56
Бравый [Bravyy]		1203	445 61 Kommunar Yd, Nikolayev	25.7.1953	28.2.1955	9.1.1956	stricken 7.1987	project 56K

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	56: 2667 56K: 2890
Displacement full, t	56: 3230 56K: 3447
Length, m	126.1
Breadth, m	12.8
Draught, m	56: 4.26 56K: 4.50
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 TV-8 geared steam turbines sets, 4 KV-76 boilers
Power, h. p.	72000
Max speed, kts	56: 38 56K: 35.5
Fuel, t	oil
Endurance, nm(kts)	56: 3090(17.9) 56K: 3000(18)
Armament	56: 2 x 2 - 130/58 SM-2-1, 4 x 4 - 45/89 SM-20-ZIF, 2 x 5 - 533 TT, 6 DCT, 2 DCR (48), 36 - 50 mines 56K: 1 x 2 M-1 Volna SAM (16 V-600(4K90)), 1 x 2 - 130/58 SM-2-1, 1 x 4 - 45/89 SM-20-ZIF, 1 x 5 - 533 TT, 2 x 16 RBU-2500 Smerch ASWRL, 6 DCT, 2 DCR (48)
Electronic equipment	56: 701, 702: Rif, Neptun, Yakor'-M1, 2x Fut-B, Zaria radars, Pegas-2 sonar 56: 703-705, 710, 1201, 1202, 1205: Rif, Neptun, Yakor'-M1, 2x Fut-B, Zaria radars, Pegas-2 sonar, Machta-P4 ECM suite 56: 707-709, 742, 1206-1209, 81-87: Fut-N, Neptun, Yakor'-M1, 2x Fut-B, Zaria radars, Pegas-2 sonar, Machta-P4 ECM suite 56: 706, 741: Fut-N, Neptun, Yakor'-M1, 2x Fut-B, Volna radars, Pegas-2 sonar, Machta-P4 ECM suite 56K: MR-300 Angara, Neptun, Yakor'-M1, 4R-90 Yatagan, Fut-B, Zaria radars, Pegas-2 sonar, Machta-P4 ECM suite
Complement	56: 284 56K: 270

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Project history

This Project 56 design was the shrunken version of Project 41. Work began under a 2 June 1951 decree on 'changes in the military characteristics of Project 41'. The main changes ordered were a reduction in full load displacement from 3770t to 3150t, full speed increased from 36kts to 39kts, cruising range (14kts) reduced from 5500nm to 4000nm, stores endurance halved to 10 days, and lighter torpedo tubes and unstabilized 45mm gun mounts (quadruple SM-20s instead of twin SM-16s, 750 rather than 1000 rounds/barrel). A production run of 100 ships (rather than the 110 planned Project 41s) was envisaged. In fact only twenty-seven were completed; production was stopped in October 1955. Four more hulls were then completed as missile ships (Project 56M).

Presumably the 1951 figures represented a sketch design already available; TsKB-53 skipped the usual preliminary design stage to go directly to detailed design in hope of rescuing the production schedule. Work on the first two ships began in February 1952 (much prefabrication preceded the official keel laying. It was soon obvious that the preliminary figures had been too optimistic. However, the figures were officially confirmed in a TTZ issued 4 April 1954 (full load displacement was allowed to rise to 3220t, required speed to fall to 38.5kts, and the 25mm guns of Project 41 were eliminated). By this time the first unit was nearly ready to launch.

There were some differences from Project 41 armament: the director was a new type (Sfera-56; the analogous Sfera-50 was used on Project 50 frigates) and the 45mm guns were arranged in a rhombus so that fire could be concentrated along the centreline. Unlike project 41, project 56 had no ASW rocket launchers forward.

To accommodate the armament and powerplant of Project 41 in a smaller hull, some volume was pushed up above the main deck. To limit topweight, aluminium-magnesium alloy was used in the superstructure. These ships may have had the first Soviet fin stabilizers.

Trials were not altogether satisfactory. Although the powerplant exceeded design power, Spokoynyy did not make her designed speed until major modifications had been made (a centreline rudder replaced two abaft the propellers, and four-bladed propellers replaced the earlier 3-bladed ones). Even brief periods of high-speed steaming greatly reduced the ship's endurance (one hour at full speed cost 184nm at economical speed, compared to 104nm in Skoryy.

This class was very well liked in the Soviet Navy, their high bows made them dry, and they were very fast. Blagorodnyy reportedly made 42.9kts after a 1968 refit, and even the slowest of the class made 36kts about a decade after completion.

One incomplete ship, Bedovyy, was fitted out as a test platform for the new KSS anti-ship missile. The Kiparis system, an adapted gunfire direction system, was used for missile control. Apparently it was then decided to accelerate the missile programme by making this test installation operational (the Project 57 class destroyer was already being developed specifically to fire the KSS missile). Three more ships were completed to a new 56M missile configuration. One of them, Neudierzhimyy, had not been laid down to the Project 56 design, but presumably the material for her construction had already been assembled. These ships were armed with a new quadruple 57mm secondary gun and paired beam torpedo in place of the earlier quintuple mounts. Reportedly the armoured hangar aft contained six missiles. The existing Sfera director was retained.

Modernizations

1956, Spokoynyy, Svetlyy; 1958, Besslednyy; 1959, Speshnyy; 1960, Blestyashchiy, Byvalyy, Nesokrushimyy, Svedushchiy, Skromnyy: - Rif radar; + Fut-N radar

1958, Svetlyy; 1966, Vyderzhannyy; 1969, Veskiy: + helodeck for 1 Ka-15

1959, Moskovskiy komsomolets: - Volna radar; + Zaria radar

1960, Blestiashchiy, Skrytnyy; 1961, Vdokhnovennyy; 1962, Naporistyy, Plamennyy, Vozmushchionnyy; 1963, Blagorodnyy, Burlivyy; 1965, Byvalyy; 1975, Vyzyvayushchiy; 1976, Besslednyy; 1979, Svedushchiy: as Project 56PLO - - 1 x 5 - 533 TT, 6 DCT, 2 DCR, Pegas-2 sonar; + 2 x 16 RBU-2500 Smerch ASWRL, 2 x 6 RKU-36U Burun ASWRL, Pegas-2M sonar

1961, Moskovskiy komsomolets: as Project 56PLO - - 1 x 5 - 533 TT, 6 DCT, 2 DCR, Pegas-2 sonar; + 2 x 12 RBU-6000 Smerch-2 ASWRL, 2 x 6 RKU-36U Burun ASWRL, Pegas-2M sonar, Kolos-2000 non-acoustic submarine detection system

1964, Bravyy: + 2 x 4 - 45/89 SM-20-ZIF

1960s, Besslednyy: + P-10 radar

1966, Nakhodchivyy; 1970, Nastoychivyy: as Project 56A - - 1 x 2 - 130/58, 3 x 4 - 45/89, 1 x 5 - 533 TT, 6 DCT, 2 DCR, mines, Fut-N, 1x Fut-B radars, Pegas-2 sonar, Machta-P4 ECM suite; + 1 x 2 SAM M-1 Volna SAM (16 V-600(4K90)), 2 x 12 RBU-6000 Smerch-2 ASWRL, MR-310 Angara-A, 4R-90 Yatagan radars, Gerkules-2 sonar, Bizan'-4 ECM suite; 3060/3620t, 4.50m draught, 34.5kts, 2150(17)nm, 268p

1966, Vozbuzhdionnyy; 1970, Nesokrushimyy: as Project 56A - - 1 x 2 - 130/58, 3 x 4 - 45/89, 1 x 5 - 533 TT, 6 DCT, 2 DCR, mines, Fut-N, 1x Fut-B radars, Pegas-2 sonar, Machta-P4 ECM suite; + 1 x 2 SAM M-1 Volna SAM (16 V-600(4K90)), 4 x 2 - 30/71 AK-230, 2 x 12 RBU-6000 Smerch-2 ASWRL, MR-310 ANgara-A, 4R-90 Yatagan, 2x MR-104 Rys' radars, Gerkules sonar, Bizan'-4 ECM suite; 3060/3620t, 4.50m draught, 34.5kts, 2150(17)nm, 268p

1967, Bravyy; 1970, Byvalyy, Veskiy; 1971, Vozbuzhdionnyy, Naporistyy; 1972, Burlivyy; 1973, Nastoychivyy, Nesokrushimyy, Skromnyy, Skrytnyy, Soznatelnyy, Speshnyy; 1978, Blagorodnyy: + MI-110K thermal wake detector

1969, Skromnyy: as Project 56A - 1 x 2 - 130/58, 3 x 4 - 45/89, 2 x 6 RKU-36U Burun ASWRL, mines, Fut-N, 1x Fut-B radars, Pegas-2 sonar, Machta-P4 ECM suite; + 1 x 2 SAM M-1 Volna SAM (16 V-600(4K90)), MR-310 Angara-A, 4R-90 Yatagan radars, Gerkules-2M sonar, Bizan'-4 ECM suite; 3060/3620t, 4.50m draught, 34.5kts, 2150(17)nm, 268p

1969, Spravedlivyy: as Project 56AE - 1 x 2 - 130/58, 3 x 4 - 45/89, 1 x 5 - 533 TT, 6 DCT, 2 DCR, mines, Fut-N, 1x Fut-B, Neptun radars, Pegas-2 sonar; + 1 x 2 SAM M-1 Volna SAM (16 V-600(4K90)), 2 x 1 - 45/69 21KM, 2 x 16 RBU-2500 Smerch ASWRL, MR-300 Angara, 2x Don, 4R-90 Yatagan, Gerkules-2M sonar; 3060/3620t, 4.50m draught, 34.5kts, 2150(17)nm, 268p

1970, Veskiy; 1971, Vliyatelnyy, Svetlyy; 1972, Dalnevostochnyy komsomolets; 1978, Blagorodnyy: + 2 x 2 - 25/112 2M-3M

1970, Veskiy; 1971, Vliyatelnyy, Dalnevostochnyy komsomolets: + 2 x 1 - 45/69 21KM

1970, Veskiy: - Pegas-2 sonar; + Pegas-2M sonar

1970, Veskiy, Vozbuzhdionnyy, Skrytnyy: + MG-409 sonar

1970, Blestyashchiy, Veskiy; 1972, Vozbuzhdionnyy, Dalnevostochnyy komsomolets, Nesokrushimyy, Skrytnyy: + MI-110R radiation wake detector

1971, Naporistyy; 1972, Blestiashchiy, Burlivyy, Vozmushchionnyy, Vyzyvayushchiy; 1975, Vdokhnovennyy; 1978, Plamennyy: + 4 x 2 - 25/112 2M-3M

1971, Blestiashchiy, Vliyatielnyy, Svetlyy, Skrytnyy, Soznatielnyy, Speshnyy; Vozbuzhdionnyy, Dalnevostochnyy komsomolets: - Neptun radar; + 2x Don radars

1971, Naporistyy, Nesokrushimyy; 1972, Burlivyy: + Don radar

1972, Skrytnyy: as Project 56A - 1 x 2 - 130/58, 3 x 4 - 45/89, 2 x 16 RBU-2500 Smerch ASWRL, 2 x 6 RKU-36U Burun ASWRL, mines, Fut-N, 1x Fut-B radars, Pegas-2 sonar, Machta-P4 ECM suite; + 1 x 2 SAM M-1 Volna SAM (16 V-600(4K90)), 4 x 2 - 30/71 AK-230, 2 x 12 RBU-6000 Smerch-2 ASWRL, MR-310 Angara-A, 4R-90 Yatagan, 2x MR-104 Rys' radars, Gerkules sonar, Bizan'-4 ECM suite; 3060/3620t, 4.50m draught, 34.5kts, 2150(17)nm, 268p

1972, Soznatelnyy: as Project 56A - - 1 x 2 - 130/58, 3 x 4 - 45/89, 1 x 5 - 533 TT, 6 DCT, 2 DCR, mines, Fut-N, 1x Fut-B radars, Pegas-2 sonar, Machta-P4 ECM suite; + 1 x 2 SAM M-1 Volna SAM (16 V-600(4K90)), 4 x 2 - 30/71 AK-230, 2 x 12 RBU-6000 Smerch-2 ASWRL, MR-310 Angara-A, 4R-90 Yatagan, 2x MR-104 Rys' radars, Gerkules-2M sonar, Bizan'-4 ECM suite; 3060/3620t, 4.50m draught, 34.5kts, 2150(17)nm, 268p

1972, Dalnevostochnyy komsomolets: + MG-329 Bronza sonar

1974, Nastoychivyy: - 1 x 2 Volna SAM; + 1 x 2 Volna-M SAM (16 V-601(4K91)

1970s, Nakhodchivyy, Nesokrushimyy, Svedushchiy, Svetlyy, Skromnyy, Soznatelnyy, Speshnyy, Spokoynyy, Spravedlivyy: - Yakor'-M1 radar; + Yakor'-M2 radar

1970s, Besslednyy: - P-10 radar

1970s, Blestyashchiy: + MI-110P submarine wake detector

1970s, Blestyashchiy: - Machta-P4 ECM suite; + Bizan;-4V ECM suite

1980, Vyzyvayushchiy: - 4 x 2 - 25/112

1981, Nastoychivyy: - MI-110K thermal wake detector

1982, Nastoychivyy: - 1 x 2 Volna-M SAM; + 1 x 2 Volna-P SAM

Naval service

Bravyy was twice badly damaged: 9.11.1970 in Mediterranean Sea in collision with British aircraft carrier Ark Royal and by fire 22.12.1978.