Three ships of the Soviet Navy have been named for the Bolshevik leaders Mikhail Ivanovich and Fedor Ivanovich Kalinin.
One ship of the Baltic State Shipping Company was also named for Mikhail Kalinin
The Kirov class, Soviet designation Project 1144 Orlan, is a class of nuclear-powered guided missile cruisers of the Soviet Navy and Russian Navy, the largest and heaviest surface combatant warships in operation in the world. Among modern warships, they are second in size only to large aircraft carriers, and of similar size to a World War I era battleship. The Soviet classification of the ship-type is "heavy nuclear-powered guided missile cruiser". The ships are often referred to as battlecruisers by Western defence commentators due to their size and general appearance.
Pavel Stepanovich Nakhimov, one of the most famous admirals in Russian naval history, is best remembered as the commander of naval and land forces during the Siege of Sevastopol (1854-1855) during the Crimean War.
Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin, known familiarly by Soviet citizens as "Kalinych", was an Old Bolshevik revolutionary and a Soviet politician. He served as head of state of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and later of the Soviet Union from 1919 to 1946. From 1926, he was a member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
Kalinin may refer to:
Admiral Nakhimov may refer to:
The Kirov-class cruisers were a class of six cruisers built in the late 1930s for the Soviet Navy. After the first two ships, armor protection was increased and subsequent ships are sometimes called the Maxim Gorky class. These were the first large ships built by the Soviets from the keel up after the Russian Civil War, and they were derived from the Italian cruiser Raimondo Montecuccoli, being designed with assistance from the Italian Ansaldo company. Two ships each were deployed in the Black and Baltic Seas during World War II, while the last pair was still under construction in the Russian Far East and saw no combat during the war. The first four ships bombarded Axis troops and facilities after the Germans invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941. All six ships survived the war and lingered in training and other secondary roles, with three being scrapped in the early 1960s and the other three a decade later.
Kirov may refer to:
The Chapayev class were a group of cruisers built for the Soviet Navy during and after World War II. Seventeen ships were planned but only seven were actually started before the German invasion. Two incomplete ships were destroyed when their building yard in Nikolaev was captured by Nazi Germany and the remaining five cruisers were completed only in 1950.
Several Russian and Soviet warships were named Admiral Ushakov in honour of Fyodor Fyodorovich Ushakov:
Admiral Nakhimov is the third battlecruiser of the Russian Navy's Kirov class. The ship was originally commissioned into service with the Soviet Navy in the 1980s, known back then as Kalinin (Калинин), a name the ship kept until 1992. From 1997 Admiral Nakhimov is undergoing a repair and a refit to receive new and improved weaponry and had been scheduled to re-enter service with the Russian Navy in around 2022. In 2021 it was reported that the ship's return to service would be delayed until "at least" 2023.
Admiral Lazarev was the second Kirov-class battlecruiser. Until 1992 she was named Frunze after a Project 68 cruiser ; at that time she was renamed after Russian admiral Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev. Scrapping of the ship began in April 2021.
At least five warships of Russia have borne the name Admiral Nakhimov, in honour of Pavel Nakhimov an admiral of the Imperial Russian Navy.
Kalinin (Калинин) was one of six Kirov-class cruisers built for the Soviet Navy in the Russian Far East from components shipped from European Russia during World War II. The ship was one of the last pair constructed, known as the Project 26bis2 subclass. Completed at the end of 1942 and assigned to the Pacific Fleet, she saw no action during the Soviet–Japanese War in 1945 and served into the Cold War. Sometimes serving as a flagship, her post-war career was uneventful until she was disarmed and converted into a floating barracks in 1960. She was scrapped in the early 1960s.
Kaganovich was a Project 26bis2 Kirov-class cruiser of the Soviet Navy that was built during World War II. She was built in Siberia from components shipped from European Russia. She saw no action during the war and served into the Cold War. She was renamed Lazar Kaganovich in 1945 to distinguish her from Lazar's disgraced brother Mikhail Kaganovich. Her post-war career was generally uneventful, although her superstructure was badly damaged by a Force 12 typhoon in 1957. She was renamed Petropavlovsk in 1957. Sources disagree on her fate; some say that she was converted into a floating barracks in 1960 and later sold for scrap while another says that she was simply sold for scrap in 1960.
6 ships of the Imperial Russian and Soviet Navies have been named Petropavlovsk after the 1854 Siege of Petropavlovsk.
Three ships of the Soviet Navy have been named Petropavlovsk after the 1854 Siege of Petropavlovsk.
Four ships of the Imperial Russian Navy, Soviet Navy and Russian Navy have been named after Admiral Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev.
Three ships of the Soviet Navy have been named for the Bolshevik leader Mikhail Vasilyevich Frunze.
Two ships of the Soviet Navy have been named for the Bolshevik leader Sergei Mironovich Kirov. Both have been the lead ships of their classes.