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 byTashkent class
Succeeded byNone
Built1939–1941
Planned14
Completed0
Cancelled11
Scrapped3
General characteristics
TypeDestroyer leader
Displacement
Length127.8 m (419 ft 3 in) (o/a)
Beam11.7 m (38 ft 5 in)
Draft4.2 m (13 ft 9 in)
Installed power
Propulsion3 shafts; 3 geared steam turbines
Speed42 knots (78 km/h; 48 mph)
Range4,100 nmi (7,600 km; 4,700 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Complement264
Armament

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.