Soviet cruiser Kalinin
Service
- as Kalinin (Калинин)31 January 1953 — 12 April 1963
- Name
- Kalinin
- Namesake
- Mikhail Kalinin
- Builder
- Shipyard 199, Komsomolsk-on-Amur
- Laid down
- 12 August 1938
- Launched
- 8 May 1942
- Struck
- 12 April 1963
- Fate
- Transferred for scrapping, 10 August 1963 (1963)
- Status
- Unknown
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 8,267 long tons (8,400 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 9,881 long tons (10,040 t)
- Length
- 191.2 m (627.3 ft)
- Beam
- 17.66 m (57.9 ft)
- Draught
- 6.3 m (20.7 ft)
- Speed
- 36 knots (66.7 km/h, 41.4 mph)
- Complement
- 812
- Main gun
- 180 mm (7.1 in)
Kalinin was a Kirov-class cruiser of the Soviet Navy. The ship was named after Mikhail Kalinin. Shipyard 199, Komsomolsk-on-Amur laid her keel on 12 August 1938. She was launched on 8 May 1942.
Her class ran to six ships. The class followed the Admiral Nakhimov-class cruiser and was succeeded by the Chapayev-class cruiser.
Displacement was 8,267 long tons standard and 9,881 long tons at full load. She measured 191.2 m (627 ft) long with a beam of 17.7 m (58 ft). Her designed speed was 36 knots, and she carried a complement of 812.
Her main battery was nine 180 mm (7.1 in) guns in three triple mountings. Her belt armour was 70 mm (2.8 in) and her deck 50 mm. 126,900 shp drove two shafts.
She was struck from the register on 12 April 1963.
She was transferred on 10 August 1963.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 2 shafts; 2 geared steam turbines
- Power
- 6 Yarrow-Normand boilers
- 126900 shp
- Armament
- 3 × triple 180 mm guns
- 8 × single 76 mm AA guns
- 6 × single 45 mm AA guns
- 10 × single 37 mm AA guns
- 6 × single 12.7 mm AA machine guns
- 2 × triple 533 mm torpedo tubes
- 100–164 mines
- 50 depth charges
- Armour
- Waterline belt: 70 mm
- Deck: 50 mm each
- Turrets: 70 mm
- Barbettes: 70 mm
- Conning tower: 150 mm
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from Soviet cruiser Kalinin on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: US Navy aircrewman — U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command photo NH 95486 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons