![]() Kerch in Sevastopol Bay, 2009
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Name | Kerch |
Namesake | Hero City Kerch |
Builder | 61 Communards Shipyard |
Laid down | 30 April 1971 |
Launched | 21 July 1972 |
Commissioned | 25 December 1974 |
Decommissioned | 15 February 2020 |
Out of service | 4 November 2014 |
Identification | 713 |
Fate | Scrapped 14 April 2020 |
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Class and type | Kara-class cruiser |
Displacement | 8,900 tons |
Length | 173.4 m (568.9 ft) |
Beam | 18.5 m (60.7 ft) |
Draft | 5.4 m (17.7 ft) |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 32 knots (59 km/h; 37 mph) |
Range | 9,000 nmi (17,000 km; 10,000 mi) |
Complement | 425 |
Armament |
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Aircraft carried | 1 Kamov Ka-25 |
Kerch (Керчь) was a Kara-class missile cruiser of the Soviet and later Russian Navy. She served as part of the Black Sea Fleet. The ship was scrapped in 2020 following a large fire which broke out on 4 November 2014.[1]