Soviet cruiser Kalinin

Sister ship Petropavlovsk in 1958
History
Soviet Union
Name	Kalinin (Калинин)
Namesake	Mikhail Kalinin
Builder	Shipyard 199, Komsomolsk-on-Amur
Yard number	7
Laid down	12 August 1938
Launched	8 May 1942
Completed	31 December 1942
In service	31 January 1953
Out of service	1 May 1956
Renamed	PKZ-21, 14 March 1960
Reclassified	6 February 1960 as floating barracks
Stricken	12 April 1963
Reinstated	1 December 1957
Fate	Transferred for scrapping, 10 August 1963
General characteristics (Project 26bis2)
Class and type	Kirov-class cruiser
Displacement	8,400 t (8,267 long tons) (standard) 10,040 t (9,881 long tons) (full load)
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)
Installed power	6 Yarrow-Normand boilers 126,900 shp (94,629 kW)
Propulsion	2 shafts; 2 geared steam turbines
Speed	36 knots (67 km/h; 41 mph)
Endurance	5,590 nmi (10,350 km; 6,430 mi) at 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph)
Complement	812
Sensors and processing systems	ASDIC-132 and Mars-72 sonars
Armament	3 × triple 180 mm (7.1 in) guns 8 × single 76 mm (3 in) AA guns 6 × single 45 mm (1.8 in) AA guns 10 × single 37 mm (1.5 in) AA guns 6 × single 12.7 mm (0.5 in) AA machine guns 2 × triple 533 mm (21 in) torpedo tubes 100–164 mines 50 depth charges
Armor	Waterline belt: 70 mm (2.8 in) Deck: 50 mm (2 in) each Turrets: 70 mm (2.8 in) Barbettes: 70 mm (2.8 in) Conning tower: 150 mm (5.9 in)

Kalinin (Калинин) was one of six Kirov-class cruisers (officially known as Project 26) 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.