Recognition Guide Warships of the Second World War

Soviet Navy — Cruiser class

Pallada-class cruiser

The class in numbers

  • 3 Completed
  • 1 Lost
  • 1 Scrapped
  • 1 Preserved

Design and service

Type
Cruiser
Navy
Soviet Navy
Built
1895–1903
In commission
1902–1922
Preceded by
Russian cruiser Svetlana (1896)
Succeeded by
Russian cruiser Varyag (1899)
Operators
Naval Ensign of Russian SFSR (1920-1923).svg Red Fleet
Builders
  • New Admiralty Shipyard, St Petersburg, Russia

Class specifications

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

As built
Displacement, standard
6,897 long tons (7,008 t)
Length
126.8 m (416 ft)
Speed
19 knots (35.2 km/h, 21.9 mph)
Complement
571
Main gun
152 mm (6 in)
Armament
  • 8 × single 6 in guns
  • 24 × single 75 mm guns
  • 8 × single 37 mm guns
  • 3 × single 15 in submerged torpedo tubes

Roster

Holding 1 of the 3 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
Russian cruiser Aurora 1903 Preserved 1956

Sources