Soviet cruiser Kaganovich

Kaganovich in 1944
History
Soviet Union
Name	Kaganovich
Namesake	Lazar Kaganovich
Builder	Shipyard 199, Komsomolsk-on-Amur
Yard number	8
Laid down	26 August 1938
Commissioned	6 December 1944
Renamed	3 August 1945 as Lazar Kaganovich 3 August 1957 as Petropavlovsk
Fate	Sold for scrap around 1960
General characteristics (Project 26bis2)
Class and type	Kirov-class cruiser
Displacement	8,400 t (8,267 long tons) (standard) 10,040 t (9,881 long tons) (full load)
Length	191.2 m (627 ft 4 in)
Beam	17.66 m (57 ft 11 in)
Draught	6.3 m (20 ft 8 in) (full load)
Installed power	6 Yarrow-Normand boilers 126,900 shp (94,600 kW)
Propulsion	2 shafts, 2 geared turbines
Speed	36 knots (67 km/h; 41 mph) (on trials)
Endurance	5,590 nmi (10,350 km; 6,430 mi) at 17 knots (31 km/h; 20 mph)
Complement	812
Sensors and processing systems	ASDIC-132 and Mars-72 sonars
Armament	3 × 3 - 180 mm (7.1 in) B-1-P guns 8 × 1 - 85 mm (3.3 in) 90-K dual-purpose guns 6 × 1 - 45 mm (1.8 in) 21-K AA guns 10 × 1 - 37 mm (1.5 in) 70-K 6 × 1 - 12.7 mm (0.5 in) DShK AA machine guns 2 × 3 - 533 mm (21 in) torpedo tubes 100–106 mines 50 depth charges
Armour	Waterline belt: 70 mm (2.8 in) Deck: 50 mm (2.0 in) each Turrets: 70 mm (2.8 in) Barbettes: 70 mm (2.8 in) Conning tower: 150 mm (5.9 in)
Aircraft carried	2 × KOR-2 seaplanes
Aviation facilities	1 ZK-2b catapult

Kaganovich (Russian: Каганович) was a Project 26bis2 Kirov-class cruiser of the Soviet Navy that was built during World War II. She was built in Siberia from components shipped from European Russia. She saw no action during the war and served into the Cold War. She was renamed Lazar Kaganovich in 1945 to distinguish her from Lazar's disgraced brother Mikhail Kaganovich. Her post-war career was generally uneventful, although her superstructure was badly damaged by a Force 12 typhoon in 1957. She was renamed Petropavlovsk (Russian: Петропавловск) in 1957. Sources disagree on her fate; some say that she was converted into a floating barracks in 1960 and later sold for scrap while another says that she was simply sold for scrap in 1960.