 Krasny Krym at anchor in 1943
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| Class overview | |
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| Name | Svetlana class |
| Builders | |
| Operators |  Soviet Navy |
| Preceded by | Muraviev Amurski class |
| Succeeded by | Admiral Nakhimov class |
| Cost | 8,300,000 rubles |
| Built | 1913–28 |
| In commission | 1928–58 |
| Planned | 4 |
| Completed | 3 (1 completed as a cruiser) |
| Cancelled | 1 |
| Lost | 1 |
| Scrapped | 2 |
| General characteristics (as designed) | |
| Type | Light cruiser |
| Displacement | 6,860 t (6,750 long tons) (standard) |
| Length | 158.4 m (519 ft 8 in) |
| Beam | 15.3 m (50 ft 2 in) |
| Draught | 5.56 m (18 ft 3 in) |
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| Propulsion | 4 × shafts; 4 × direct-drive steam turbines |
| Speed | 29.5 knots (54.6 km/h; 33.9 mph) |
| Complement | 630 |
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The Svetlana-class cruiser was the first class of light cruisers built for the Imperial Russian Navy (IRN) during the 1910s. Construction was interrupted by World War I, the Russian Revolution and the Russian Civil War. Only Svetlana of the quartet was completed by the Soviet Union as a cruiser, two were converted to oil tankers, and the remaining ship was scrapped without being completed.
Svetlana, now renamed Profintern, became fully operational in 1928 and was transferred to the Black Sea Fleet the following year. The ship was renamed Krasny Krym in 1939 and supported Soviet troops during the Black Sea Campaigns during World War II. After the war, she became a training ship until the ship was decommissioned in 1958 and broken up two years later.