Kuybyshev
623
1957
(Spider Navy SN-3-21)
- Class: Chapayev - 5 light cruisers of 1939
- Displacement: 11,300 tons standard / 15,000 tons full load
- Dimensions: 659'5" x 64'8" x 21'
- Machinery: geared steam turbines, 130,000 SHP; 2 screws = 34 knots
- Armour: Belt 4in, deck 2in, turrets 3in, CT 6in
- Guns: 12-152mm/57 (4x3), 8-100mm/70 (4x2), 28-37mm/67 (14x2)
- Mines: 200
- Torpedoes: 6-533mm (2x3)
- Complement: 840
- Builder: 61 Kommunar Yard, Nikolaiev, Russia
- Laid down: 31 Aug 1939
- Launched: 31 Jan 1941
- Completed: 20 Apr 1950
- Notes: Member of the project 68K cruisers, laid down prior to the Nazi invasion, and completed postwar. A large program of 17 ships was planned and 11 ordered, with 7 laid down before the invasion. Two were scrapped on the slipway after having been captured by the Germans at Nikolayev during the war, while 5 were completed by 1949-50. Served in the Black Sea Fleet. Decommissioned in 1965.
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