Leningrad class destroyer

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The Leningrad class were destroyer leaders built for the Soviet Navy in the late 1930s. These large destroyers were inspired by the contre-torpilieurs built for the French Navy. There were two groups of three ships each. The first group was designated Project 1 and the Second Group project 38 by the Soviets. These ships were the first large vessels designed and built by the Soviets after the revolution. They had several shortcomings being top heavy and having poor seakeeping.

[edit] General Characteristics

Displacement: 2150 tons standard, 2582 tons full load
Length: 127.5 m
Beam: 11.7 m
Draught:4.06 m
Machinery: 2 shaft geared turbines, 3 boilers, 66,000 hp
Speed: 36 knots
Range: 2100 nm at 20 knots
Armament:
- 5 - 130 mm guns (5x1)
- 2 - 76 mm guns
- 2 - 45 mm anti-aircraft guns
- 8 - 533mm torpedo tubes (2x4)
- 80 mines
Crew: 250

[edit] Ships

All ships were named after Cities

Leningrad - built by Zhdanov yard Leningrad (Baltic Fleet) completed December 1936, scrapped 1960s
Minsk - built by Zhdanov yard Leningrad (Baltic Fleet), completed February 1939, sunk in Kronstadt harbour by Stukas 23 September 1941 but salvaged. Decommisioned 1959
Moskva - built by Marti Yard, Nikolaev (Black Sea Fleet) - completed August 1937, sunk by mine on 26 June 1941
Kharkov - built by Marti Yard, Nikolaev (Black Sea Fleet) - completed August 1937, sunk by bombing of the coast of the Crimea 6 October 1943
Tbilisi - built by Dalzavod, Komsomolsk na Amure, (Pacific Fleet) - completed 1939 - scrapped 1960s
Baku built by Komsomolsk na Amure, (Pacific Fleet) - transferred to the Soviet Northern Fleet via the Arctic Ocean, scrapped in the 1960s