| | Light Cruisers
Project 68KNATO:
Chapayev Class
Completed 5
units
Ships Project 68K
| Name |
Yard ¹ |
Laid Down |
Launched |
Commissioned |
Note |
| Baltic Shipyard ¹189 named after
S. Ordzhonikidze, Leningrad – 2 units | |
Chapayev | ¹305 |
8.10.1939 | 28.04.1941 |
16.05.1950 | from 29.10.1960
- PKZ-25 | | Chkalov |
¹306 | 30.09.1939 |
25.10.1947 | 25.10.1950 | from
29.10.1958 - Komsomolets | |
Shipyard ¹194 named after A. Marti, Leningrad – 1 unit | |
Zheleznyakov |
¹545 | 31.10.1939 |
25.06.1941 | 19.04.1950 | |
| Shipyard ¹200 named after
61 kommunara, Nikolaev (from 1945 Shipyard ¹445 named after 61 kommunara) – 1
unit | | Kuybyshev |
¹1088 | 31.08.1939 |
31.01.1941 | 20.04.1950 | |
| Shipyard ¹198 named after
A. Marti, Nikolaev (from 1945 Shipyard ¹444 named after A. Marti) – 1 unit |
| Frunze |
¹356 | 29.08.1939 |
30.12.1940 | 19.12.1950 | |
General characteristics - Project
68K
| Displacement (tons): | | Standard: |
11450 | | Full load: | 14138
| | Dimensions (m): | | Length: | 199 |
| Beam: | 18,73 |
| Draft: | 6,93 | | Speed
(knots): | 32,8 | | Range: | 6360
nmi (18 knots), 1445 nmi (32,8 knots) | | Autonomy
(days): | 30 | | Propulsion: | 2X55000
hp TV-7 GTZA, 2 fixed pitch propellers, 4x300 kW turbine-type genrators |
| Armament: | 4x3 152 mm MK-5
(2100 rounds) – Molniya AC-68 with 2 radars Redan-2 fire control system
4x2
100 mm SM-5-1 (2400 rounds) – Zenit-68K with 2 radars Vympel-2 fire control system
14x2 37 mm V-11 (14400 rounds)
60 KB or AGSB or RM-1 mines or 78 KB-3 mines
or 48 KDM-1000 mines or 90 Type 1931 mines or 88 Type 1926 mines or 146 Type 1908
mines | | Electronics: |
Rif surface search radar, Gyuys-1M4 air search radar, Neptun navigation radar,
Fakel-MZ-Fakel-MO IFF, Tamir-5N sonar | | Complement: | 1184 |
Schematics 
Light Cruiser - Project 68K
Modernizations On
Zheleznyakov in 1957-61 2x2 37 mm V-11 were removed, and added 4?x1 45 mm 21KM
On
Chapaev, Chkalov in 1962 were added P-10 air search radar
On Zheleznyakov,
Kuybyshev was added Fut-N air/surface search radar
On Zheleznyakov in 1972
Neptun navigation radar was replaced by 2 Don navigation radars
On Zheleznyakov
2 Redan-2 radars were replaced by 2 Zalp radars
On Zheleznyakov 2 Vympel-2
radars were replaced by 2 Yakor radars
Floating barracks: PKZ-25 (Chapayev)
6.02.1960
Unrealized modifications: Priject 68S - Chkalov with Germany middle-caliber
guns
Fleets Baltic Fleet:
Zheleznyakov (from 30.07.1951 Northern Fleet, from 7.08.1968 Baltic
Fleet), Chapayev (from 30.07.1951 Nothern Fleet), Chkalov
Black
Sea Fleet: Kuybyshev, Frunze
Hull Numbers Zheleznyakov:
08, 28, 105, 169, 163(1957), 952(1959), 330(1961), 160(1961), 263(1965), 852,
865, 101(1967), 805(1967), 861(1967), 297(1972), 892(1973), 885(1974)
Kuybyshev:
10(1953), 35, 43(1957), 508, 623(1959), 141(1964)
Frunze: 12(1953), 96, 20(1956),
44(1957), 21(1958), 775(1959), 572(1960), 623
Chapayev: 10, 15(1957), 28,
37, 51, 101, 204(1963), 267?
Chkalov: 43(1954), 105(1963), 692(Komsomolets),
882(1968), 805(11.1970), 861(1972), 892, 887(1973), 862(1975), 150(1978)
Decommissioned 1960 – Frunze (6.02)
1963 – Chapayev (12.04,
was flooded as a basis for pier near Minkino)
1965 – Kuybyshev (24.04)
1975 – Zheleznyakov (21.10)
1979 – Chkalov (27.09)
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