The Stalingrad-class battlecruiser, also known as Project 82, was a battlecruiser design of the Soviet Union in 1941. It was a smaller and less-expensive counterpart to the Kronshtadt-class battlecrui
Side and plan views of the Stalingrad class
Sverdlov-class cruiser
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The Sverdlov-class cruisers, Soviet designation Project 68bis, were the last conventional gun cruisers built for the Soviet Navy. They were built in the 1950s and were based on Soviet, German, and Ita
Stalingrad-class battlecruiser
…the German invasion of the Soviet Union opened and the design was put on hold. The design was reimagined in 1944, intended to operate along with the Sverdlov-class cruisers and proposed aircraft carriers to make up powerful task forces able to challenge the American fleet. In this role it would need to be a more…
Admiral Ushakov in 1981
A Tu-95 Bear overflies a Sverdlov-class cruiser 1975
Dmitry Pozharsky (1968)