Soviet cruiser Kaganovich
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Kaganovich (Russian: Каганович) 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 (Russian: Петропавловск) 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.
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History | |
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Soviet Union | |
Name | Kaganovich |
Namesake | Lazar Kaganovich |
Builder | Shipyard 199, Komsomolsk-on-Amur |
Yard number | 8 |
Laid down | 26 August 1938 |
Commissioned | 6 December 1944 |
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Fate | Sold for scrap around 1960 |
General characteristics (Project 26bis2) | |
Class and type | Kirov-class cruiser |
Displacement | |
Length | 191.2 m (627 ft 4 in) |
Beam | 17.66 m (57 ft 11 in) |
Draught | 6.3 m (20 ft 8 in) (full load) |
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Propulsion | 2 shafts, 2 geared turbines |
Speed | 36 knots (67 km/h; 41 mph) (on trials) |
Endurance | 5,590 nmi (10,350 km; 6,430 mi) at 17 knots (31 km/h; 20 mph) |
Complement | 812 |
Sensors and processing systems | ASDIC-132 and Mars-72 sonars |
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Armour |
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Aircraft carried | 2 × KOR-2 seaplanes |
Aviation facilities | 1 ZK-2b catapult |