Soviet Navy — Destroyer class
Leningrad-class destroyer
The class in numbers
- 6 Completed
- 2 Lost
- 4 Scrapped
Design and service
- Type
- Destroyer
- Navy
- Soviet Navy
- Built
- 1932–1940
- In commission
- 1936–1958?
- Succeeded by
- Tashkent-class destroyer
- Builders
- Shipyard No.190 (Zhdanov)
- Shipyard No.198 (Marti)
- Shipyard No.199
- Shipyard No.202
- Subclasses
- Project 1, Project 38
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
Project 38
- Displacement, standard
- 2,350 long tons (2,388 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 2,680 long tons (2,723 t)
- Length
- 127.5 m (418.3 ft) OA
- Speed
- 40 knots (74.1 km/h, 46 mph)
- Complement
- 250
- Main gun
- 130 mm (5.1 in)
- Armament
- 5 × single 130 mm guns
- 2 × single 76.2 mm AA guns
- 2 × single 45 mm AA guns
- 2 × quadruple 533 mm torpedo tubes
- 68–115 mines
- 52 depth charges
Roster
Holding 5 of the 6 hulls recorded for this class. Vessels transferred to another navy are catalogued under the navy that sailed them and appear there instead.
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Soviet destroyer Kharkov | 1938 | Sunk 1943 | |
| Soviet destroyer Leningrad | 1936 | Target 1963 | |
| Soviet destroyer Minsk | 1938 | Target 1958 | |
| Soviet destroyer Moskva | 1938 | Sunk 1941 | |
| Soviet destroyer Tbilisi | 1940 | Scrapped 1964 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Leningrad-class destroyer on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.