Ships
All ships were named after cities.
| Ship | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Project 1 | |||||
| Leningrad | Zhdanov, Leningrad | 5 November 1932 | 17 November 1933 | 5 December 1936 | Sunk as a missile target May 1963 |
| Kharkov | Marti South, Nikolayev | 19 October 1932 | 9 September 1934 | 19 November 1938 | Sunk by bombing off the coast of the Crimea 6 October 1943 |
| Moskva | Marti South, Nikolayev | 29 October 1932 | 1934 | 10 August 1938 | Sunk by mine or submarine on 26 June 1941, near Constanţa, Romania |
| Project 38 | |||||
| Minsk | Zhdanov, Leningrad | 5 October 1934 | 6 November 1935 | 15 February 1939 | Sunk in Kronstadt harbour 23 September 1941, but salvaged. Sunk as a missile target 1958 |
| Tbilisi | Dalzavod, Komsomolsk-on-Amur | 15 January 1935 | 24 July 1939 | 11 December 1940 | Sold for scrap 31 January 1964 |
| Baku | Dalzavod, Komsomolsk-on-Amur | 15 January 1935 | 10 March 1936 | 25 July 1938 | Sold for scrap 30 July 1964 |
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Famous quotes containing the word ships:
“The northern sky rose high and black
Over the proud unfruitful sea,
East and west the ships came back
Happily or unhappily....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
“I saw three ships come sailing by,
Come sailing by, come sailing by,
I saw three ships come sailing by,
On Christmas Day in the morning.”
—Unknown. As I Sat on a Sunny Bank. . .
Oxford Book of Light Verse, The. W. H. Auden, ed. (1938)
“Shuttles in the rocking loom of history,
the dark ships move, the dark ships move,
their bright ironical names
like jests of kindness on a murderer’s mouth;”
—Robert Earl Hayden (1913–1980)