Recognition Guide Warships of the Second World War

Cruiser class

Bogatyr-class cruiser

Bogatyr class

The class in numbers

  • 5 Planned
  • 4 Completed
  • 1 Lost

Design and service

Type
Cruiser
Built
1898–1907
In commission
1902–1942
Preceded by
Russian cruiser Askold (1900)
Succeeded by
Russian cruiser Novik (1900)

Class specifications

Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.

As built
Displacement, standard
6,645 long tons (6,752 t)
Length
134 m (439.6 ft)
Speed
23 knots (42.6 km/h, 26.5 mph)
Complement
589
Main gun
152 mm (6 in)
Armament
  • 12 × 152 mm guns (2 twin turrets and 8 single guns), replaced by 130 mm guns in subsequent refits for all ships
  • 12 × 75 mm guns
  • 8 × 47 mm guns
  • 2 × 37 mm guns
  • 2 × 15 in torpedo tubes

Roster

Holding 1 of the 4 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 cruiser Komintern 1905 Sunk 1942

Sources