Svetlana-class cruiser

Krasny Krym at anchor in 1943
Class overview
NameSvetlana class
Builders
Operators Soviet Navy
Preceded byMuraviev Amurski class
Succeeded byAdmiral Nakhimov class
Cost8,300,000 rubles
Built1913–28
In commission1928–58
Planned4
Completed3 (1 completed as a cruiser)
Cancelled1
Lost1
Scrapped2
General characteristics (as designed)
TypeLight cruiser
Displacement6,860 t (6,750 long tons) (standard)
Length158.4 m (519 ft 8 in)
Beam15.3 m (50 ft 2 in)
Draught5.56 m (18 ft 3 in)
Installed power
Propulsion4 × shafts; 4 × direct-drive steam turbines
Speed29.5 knots (54.6 km/h; 33.9 mph)
Complement630
Armament
Armor

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.