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Project 68bis Sverdlov Class

Name	Builders	Laid down	Launched	Commissioned
Admiral Kornilov / PKZ13	A	6th November 1951	17th March 1954	N/A
Admiral Lazarev	A	6th February 1951	29th June 1952	30th December 1952
Admiral Nakhimov	A	27th June 1950	29th June 1951	27th March 1953
Admiral Senyavin	B	31st October 1951	22nd December 1952	30th November 1954
Admiral Ushakov	B	31st August 1950	29th September 1951	8th September 1953
Aleksandr Nevski	A	30th May 1950	7th June 1951	31st December 1952
Aleksandr Suvorov	B	26th February 1951	15th May 1952	31st December 1953
Arkhangelsk	S	1954	N/A	N/A
Dmitri Pozharski	B	31st March 1952	24th June 1953	31st December 1954
Dzerzhinskiy	A	31st December 1948	31st August 1950	18th August 1952
Kronshtadt	B	October 1953	11th September 1954	N/A
Mikhail Kutuzov	A	23rd February 1951	29th November 1952	30th December 1954
Molotovsk / Oktyabrskskaya Revolutsiya	S	15th July 1952	25th May 1954	30th November 1954
Murmansk	S	28th January 1953	24th April 1955	22nd September 1955
Ordzhonikidze	A	19th October 1949	17th September 1950	30th June 1952
Scherbakov	A	June 1951	17th March 1954	N/A
Sverdlov	B	15th October 1949	5th July 1950	15th May 1952
Tallin	B	1953	28th May 1955	N/A
Varyag	B	December 1952	5th June 1956	N/A
Vladivostock	S	1955	N/A	N/A
Zhdanov	B	11th February 1950	27th December 1950	31st December 1951

Builders:
A : Admiralty Yard, Leningrad, Russia
B : Baltic Yard, Leningrad, Russia
S : Sevmashpredpriyatiye, Severodvinsk, Russia

Dimensions:
689' 3" x 72' 5" x 25' 6" / 210.10m x 22.10m x 7.80m

Displacement:
14290 tons std / 17970 tons max

Complement:
50 + 1220

Armament:
12 x 5.9" MK-5 guns in triple turrets (1980 rounds)
12 x 3.9" SM-5-1 guns in twin turrets (3600 rounds)
32 x 37mm V-11M guns in twin mountings (44250 rounds)
10 x 21" torpedo tubes in quintuple mountings
180 mines

The armament listed is that as designed. Some were completed to modified designs and the alterations are listed in History & Modifictions.

Aircraft Facilities:
None provided

Armour:
None known.

Powerplant:
Six KV-68 boilers were fitted with two TB-72 steam turbines providing a total of 110000shp on two shafts.

Maximum speed is 33.7kts and range is 5220NM @ 18kts or 4100NM @ 23kts. Up to 3900 tons of oil fuel can be carried.

Electronics Fit:
Radar:
Gyus-2 air search
Ryf surface search
Neptun navigation

Sonar:
Tamir-5N hull mounted

Other:
Machta ECM

Miscellaneous: