Baku
1941
(Neptun 1660)
- Class: Leningrad (Project #1-#38) - 6 flotilla leaders of 1932-34
- Displacement: 2,150 tons
- Dimensions: 418ft 3in (oa) x 38ft 5in x 13ft 4in
- Machinery: 2-shaft geared turbines, 66,000shp = 36 knots
- Armament: 5-5.1in (5x1), 2-3in (2x1), 2-45mm (2x1), 6-37mm (6x1) guns; 8-21in TT (2x4); 80 mines
- Complement: 250
- Builder: Nikolaiev-Komsomolsk
- Laid Down: 1936
- Launched: 25 Jul 1938
- Completed: 6 May 1940
- Service: One of six flotilla leaders authorized in two groups of three- Projects #1 and #38. Laid down as Kiev but renamed twice during construction before becoming Baku. Constructed in the Far East for the Pacific Fleet, with some of the material accumulated at Nikolaiev on the Black Sea. Transferred to the Northern Fleet during the summer of 1942 via the Siberian sea route, where she performed escort duties and shore bombardment of Axis positions in the Arctic. Probably served postwar into the 1960s.
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