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Soviet cruiser Molotov
Summary
Molotov (Молотов) was a Project 26bis of the Soviet Navy that served during World War II and into the Cold War. She supported Soviet troops during the Siege of Sevastopol, the Kerch-Feodosiya Operation and the amphibious landings at Novorossiysk at the end of January 1943.
The ship was extensively modernized between 1952 and 1955. She was renamed Slava (Слава, Glory) in 1957 after Vyacheslav Molotov fell out of favour. Slava was reclassified as a training ship in 1961 before being sold for scrap in 1972.
Molotov and her sister Maxim Gorky had heavier armor and were slightly improved from the first two Kirov-class cruisers of Project 26, and were thus designated Project 26bis.
She was long at the waterline, long overall, with a beam of and a draft between . She displaced at standard load and at full load.
Her steam turbines produced a total of during her sea trials, reaching a maximum speed of , just shy of her designed speed of 37 knots, mainly because she was overweight by . Molotov normally carried of fuel oil, at full load and at overload. This gave her a range of at .
Molotov carried nine 57-calibre B-1-P guns in three electrically powered MK-3-180 triple turrets. Her secondary armament consisted of three single 56-calibre B-34 anti-aircraft guns fitted on each side of the rear funnel. Her light AA guns consisted of nine semi-automatic 21-K AA guns and four DK machine guns. Six 39-Yu torpedo tubes were fitted in two triple mountings.
Molotov was the first Soviet ship to carry radar, a Redut-K air warning system, which she used for the entire war. Soviet-designed Mars-1 gunnery radar systems were added by 1944.
By 1943 three of Molotovs 45 mm semi-automatic guns were replaced with twelve fully automatic 70-K AA guns with one thousand rounds per gun and two extra DK machine guns. Her aircraft catapult was removed in 1942 to make room for more light AA guns.
In 1943 an improved ZK-1a catapult was fitted and successfully test-launched a Supermarine Spitfire fighter. However, in 1947 the concept was abandoned and the catapult was removed.
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