List of Cruisers of The Russian Navy - Cruisers of The Soviet and Modern Russian Navy - Light Cruisers (KRL)

Light Cruisers (KRL)

Legkiy kreiser \ «лёгкий крейсер» (КРЛ).

• Svetlana class (8 units, commissioned 3). Laid up as far back as in Imperial Russia, but were not completed due to the Revolution and Civil war. Three of them were completed in Soviet Union. Belonged to the Black Sea Fleet (Profintern – to the Baltic Fleet until 1930).
  • Profintern \ «Профинтерн» (ex-Svetlana \ «Светлана», renamed 1925) (1915) - Transferred to the Black Sea Fleet 1929–1930, renamed Krasnyi Krym \ «Красный Крым» 1939, Training cruiser 1954, BU 1959. Guards cruiser since 1942.
  • Chervona Ukraina \ «Червона Украина», and also «Червона Україна» (ex-Admiral Nakhimov \ «Адмрал Нахимов») (1915) - sank 1941
  • Krasnyi Kavkaz \ «Красный Кавказ» (ex-Admiral Lazarev \ «Адмирал Лазарев») (1916) - Training cruiser 1947, sunk as target 1952. Guards cruiser since 1942.
  • Admiral Spiridov \ «Адмирал Спиридов» (1916) - Completed as tanker Grozneft‘ \ «Грознефть» 1926, BU 1952
  • Admiral Greig \ «Адмирал Грейг» (1916) - Completed as tanker Azneft‘ \ «Азнефть» 1926, wrecked 1937
  • Admiral Butakov \ «Адмирал Бутаков» (1916) - Non completed, laid up 1917, sunk 1942, BU 1952
  • Admiral Kornilov \ «Адмирал Корнилов» (1917) - Non completed, BU 1932
  • Admiral Istomin \ «Адмирал Истомин» - Non completed, BU on slip 1927

• Project 26 and 26-bis ('Kirov' class) (6 units). These cruisers were classified as light, but possessed 7-inch main calibre (middle between 6-inch calibre of light cruisers and 8-inch calibre of medium cruisers)
  • Project 26 ('Kirov' subclass) (2 units)
    • Kirov \ «Киров» (1936 Baltic Fleet) - Damaged by air bombs in 1941 & 1942, repaired 1943, decommissioned 1974
    • Voroshilov \ «Ворошилов» (1937 Black Sea Fleet) - Reconstructed as Project 33M experimental vessel 1963, BU 1970s
  • Project 26bis ('Maksim Gorkiy' subclass) (4 units)
    • Maksim Gorkiy \ «Максим Горький» (1938 Baltic Fleet) - Mined 1941, repaired 1941, BU 1958
    • Molotov \ «Молотов» (1939 Black Sea Fleet) - Torpedoed 1942, repaired 1943, transformed to training cruiser and renamed Slava \ «Слава» 1958, decommissioned 1972
    • Kalinin \ «Калинин» (1942 Pacific Ocean Fleet) - BU 1961
    • Kaganovich \ «Каганович» (1944 Pacific Ocean Fleet)

• Project 68 and 68K ('Chapaev' class) (7 units, commissioned 5)
  • Chapayev \ «Чапаев» (1941) - Completed according to Project 68K 1950, training cruiser 1958, hulked as floating barracks 1960, decommissioned 1963
  • Kuibyshev \ «Куйбышев» (1941) - Commissioned 1950, training cruiser 1958, decommissioned 1965
  • Zhelezniakov \ «Железняков» (1941) - Completed according to Project 68K 1950, training cruiser 1961, decommissioned 1975
  • Chkalov \ «Чкалов» (1947) - Completed according to Project 68K 1950, training cruiser Komsomolets \ «Комсомолец» 1958, decommissioned 1979
  • Frunze \ «Фрунзе» (1940) - Completed according to Project 68K 1950, Training cruiser 1958, decommissioned 1960
  • Ordzhonikidze \ «Орджоникидзе» - Blew up on slip 1941 to prevent capture, BU by Germans until 1943
  • Sverdlov \ «Свердлов» - Blew up on slip 1941 to prevent capture, BU by Germans until 1943

• Murmansk \ «Мурманск» (1921; ex-American Milwaukee) - Delivered from U.S.A. on account of reparations from Italy 1944, returned to U.S.A.1947 (instead of Emanuele Filiberto Duca d'Aosta), BU 1949
• Admiral Makarov \ «Адмирал Макаров» (1934; ex-German Nürnberg) - Accepted by USSR according to reparations from Germany 1946, training cruiser 1957, decommissioned 1959
• Kerch‘ \ «Керчь» (1934; ex-Italian Emanuele Filiberto Duca d‘Aosta - Accepted by USSR according to reparations from Italy 1949, training cruiser 1956, decommissioned 1959

• Project 68bis ('Sverdlov' class) (21 units, commissioned 14)
  • Sverdlov \ «Свердлов» (1950) - Laid up 1966, recommissioned 1972, laid up 1978, decommissioned 1989 and sold for BU
  • Ordzhonikidze \ «Орджоникидзе» (1950) - Sold to Indonesia 1962, renamed Irian, BU 1972
  • Zhdanov \ «Жданов» (1950) - Rebuilt to staff ship (project 68U-1) 1970, laid up 1988, decommissioned 1990 and sold for BU
  • Aleksandr Nevski \ «Александр Невский» (1951) - Laid up 1964, recommissioned 1970, decommissioned 1989
  • Admiral Nakhimov \ «Адмирал Нахимов» (1951) - Rebuilt (project 67EP) 1955, BU 1961-62
  • Admiral Ushakov \ «Адмирал Ушаков» (1951) - Laid up 1964, recommissioned and modernized (project 68A) 1971, laid up 1983, decommissioned 1987 and sold for BU
  • Admiral Lazarev \ «Адмирал Лазарев» (1952) - Laid up 1963, decommissioned 1986 and sold for BU
  • Dzerzhinsky \ «Дзержинский» (1952) - Modernized AA Missile Cruiser (project 70E) 1958, training cruiser 1951, laid up 1980, decommissioned 1988 and sold for BU
  • Admiral Seniavin \ «Адмирал Сенявин» (1952) - Rebuilt to staff ship (project 68U-2) 1972, decommissioned 1989 and sold for BU
  • Mikhail Kutuzov \ «Михаил Кутузов» (1952) - Modernized (project 68A) 1989, laid up 1990, museum ship in Sevastopol 2002
  • Aleksandr Suvorov \ «Александр Суворов» (1953) - Laid up 1986, decommissioned 1989 and sold for BU
  • Dmitrii Pozharskii \ «Дмитрий Пожарский» (1953) - Laid up 1979, decommissioned 1987 and sold for BU
  • Molotovsk \ «Молотовск» (1954) - Renamed Oktyabrskaya Revolutsia \ «Октябрьская Революуия» 1957, laid up 1960, recommissioned 1965, modernized (project 68A) 1969, decommissioned 1987 and sold for BU
  • Murmansk \ «Мурманск» (1955) - Laid up 1989, decommissioned 1992, grounded at Sørvær in Norway when towing for BU 1994.
  • Koz‘ma Minin \ «Козьма Минин» (Arkhangel‘sk \ «Архангельск») (1953) - Project 68bis-ZIF, non completed, BU 1959
  • Dmitrii Donskoi \ «Дмитрий Донской» (Vladivostok \ «Владивосток») (1953) - Project 68bis-ZIF, non completed, BU 1959
  • Kronstadt \ «Кронштадт» (1954) - Project 68bis-ZIF, non completed, BU 1959
  • Scherbakov \ «Щербаков» (1954) - Project 68bis-ZIF, non completed, BU 1959
  • Admiral Kornilov \ «Адмрал Корнилов» (1954) - Project 68bis-ZIF, non completed, BU 1959
  • Tallin \ «Таллин» (1955) - Project 68bis-ZIF, non completed, BU 1959
  • Varyag \ «Варяг» (1956) - Project 68bis-ZIF, non completed, BU 1959