59°56′31″N 30°12′31″E / 59.9420402°N 30.2086731°E
Kirov in 1941
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History | |
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Soviet Union | |
Name | Kirov |
Namesake | Sergei Kirov |
Builder | Ordzhonikidze Yard, Leningrad |
Yard number | 269 |
Laid down | 22 October 1935 |
Launched | 30 November 1936 |
Commissioned | 23 September 1938 |
Reclassified | As a training ship, 2 August 1961 |
Stricken | December 1974 |
Honours and awards | Order of the Red Banner |
Fate | Sold for scrap, 22 February 1974 |
General characteristics (Project 26) | |
Class and type | Kirov-class cruiser |
Displacement | |
Length | 191.3 m (627 ft 7 in) |
Beam | 17.66 m (57 ft 11 in) |
Draught | 6.15 m (20 ft 2 in) (full load) |
Installed power | |
Propulsion | 2 shafts; 2 geared steam turbines |
Speed | 35.94 knots (66.56 km/h; 41.36 mph) (on trials) |
Endurance | 3,750 nmi (6,940 km; 4,320 mi) at 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph) |
Complement | 872 |
Sensors and processing systems | Arktur hydrophone |
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Aircraft carried | 2 × KOR-1 seaplanes |
Aviation facilities | 1 Heinkel K-12 catapult |
Kirov (Russian: Киров, IPA: [ˈkʲirəf]) was a Project 26 Kirov-class cruiser of the Soviet Navy that served during the Winter War and World War II, and into the Cold War. She attempted to bombard Finnish coast defense guns during action in the Winter War, but was driven off by a number of near misses that damaged her. She led the Evacuation of Tallinn at the end of August 1941, before being blockaded in Leningrad where she could only provide gunfire support during the siege of Leningrad. She bombarded Finnish positions during the Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive in mid-1944, but played no further part in the war. Kirov was reclassified as a training cruiser on 2 August 1961 and sold for scrap on 22 February 1974.