Kiev-class destroyer

Line drawings to different scales of the never-completed Kiev-class destroyers; Project 48 (top), Project 48-K (bottom)
Class overview
Operators	Soviet Navy
Preceded by	Tashkent class
Succeeded by	None
Built	1939–1941
Planned	14
Completed	0
Cancelled	11
Scrapped	3
General characteristics
Type	Destroyer leader
Displacement	2,350 long tons (2,390 t) (standard) 3,045 long tons (3,094 t) (full load)
Length	127.8 m (419 ft 3 in) (o/a)
Beam	11.7 m (38 ft 5 in)
Draft	4.2 m (13 ft 9 in)
Installed power	3 water-tube boilers 90,000 shp (67,000 kW)
Propulsion	3 shafts; 3 geared steam turbines
Speed	42 knots (78 km/h; 48 mph)
Range	4,100 nmi (7,600 km; 4,700 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Complement	264
Armament	3 × twin 130 mm (5.1 in) guns 1 × twin 76 mm (3 in) AA guns 4 × twin 12.7 mm (0.5 in) machine guns 2 × quintuple 533 mm (21 in) torpedo tubes 86 mines 2 × depth charge throwers and 30 depth charges

The Kiev class (Russian: Киев) (officially designated as Project 48) was designed in 1939 for the Soviet Navy as a smaller class of destroyer leaders after the cancellation of the Tashkent-class ships that had been intended to be built in the Soviet Union. Only three ships were begun; one was cancelled and scrapped before the Axis invasion in mid-1941 and construction of the other two was suspended during the war. The navy considered completing them under a new Project 48-K configuration afterwards, but decided against that as they would have been competing against a more modern design that lacked the stability problems that the 48-K design would have had. The Soviets either scrapped them or used them as targets.