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Construction of the first four ships was plagued with difficulties as the Soviet shipbuilding and related industries were not prepared to build such large ships. One battleship, Sovetskaya Belorussiya , was cancelled on 19 October 1940 after serious construction flaws were found.
On 19 October 1940 an order was issued, signed by Stalin and Molotov, that no new battleships would be laid down in order to concentrate on smaller ships' building (and also, probably, because more resources were required for the Army), one ship was to be scrapped, and priority should be given to only one of the three remaining battleships. [25 ...
The centerpiece of this plan was a total of 16 very large battleships. Only four of these ships were begun, and one had already been cancelled, before Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941. Construction was suspended during the war and all four hulls were scrapped in the late 1940s. [6]
fast battleship: 40,724 6 May 1940 1 June 1948 Renamed Italia 30 July 1943, scrapped 1948 Lorraine ... Soviet Navy: Sovetsky Soyuz: fast battleship: 65,150
This is a list of ships and classes of the Soviet Navy. Corvettes ... 1940 1940-1973 Scrapped 1973 Maxim Gorky: Kirov-class cruiser: 1940 1940-1959 Scrapped 1959
1940 68 000-70 600 0 Design studies based on Project 23bis, all found too heavy and cancelled 1940. [11] 24 Battleship 1950 81 150 0 2 planned for 1955, still in design phase and cancelled after Stalin's death. [12] 25 Battleship "Battleship B" 1937 30 900 0 Design study for small battleship, cancelled 1937. [9] 26 26 Cruiser: Kirov-class: 1934 ...
This is why the Soviets bought twelve surplus 38-centimeter (15.0 in) SK C/34 guns, and their twin turrets, similar to those used in the Bismarck-class battleships, from Germany in 1940. The ships were partially redesigned to accommodate them, after construction had already begun, but no turrets were actually delivered before Germany invaded ...
The Northern Fleet operating from the shores of Kola Bay and Polyarny was made up of three destroyers and three patrol ships, while the Pacific Fleet had two destroyers, transferred east in 1936, and six patrol ships assembled in the Far East. The Soviet Navy had some minor action in the Winter War against Finland in 1939–1940, on the Baltic ...