Soviet cruiser Kaganovich

Kaganovich in 1944
History
Soviet Union
NameKaganovich
NamesakeLazar Kaganovich
BuilderShipyard 199, Komsomolsk-on-Amur
Yard number8
Laid down26 August 1938
Commissioned6 December 1944
Renamed
  • 3 August 1945 as Lazar Kaganovich
  • 3 August 1957 as Petropavlovsk
FateSold for scrap around 1960
General characteristics (Project 26bis2)
Class and typeKirov-class cruiser
Displacement
Length191.2 m (627 ft 4 in)
Beam17.66 m (57 ft 11 in)
Draught6.3 m (20 ft 8 in) (full load)
Installed power
  • 6 Yarrow-Normand boilers
  • 126,900 shp (94,600 kW)
Propulsion2 shafts, 2 geared turbines
Speed36 knots (67 km/h; 41 mph) (on trials)
Endurance5,590 nmi (10,350 km; 6,430 mi) at 17 knots (31 km/h; 20 mph)
Complement812
Sensors and
processing systems
ASDIC-132 and Mars-72 sonars
Armament
Armour
Aircraft carried2 × KOR-2 seaplanes
Aviation facilities1 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.