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Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky, Inspection of the Black Sea Fleet in 1849, 1886. This is a list of Russian ships of the line from the period 1668–1860: The format is: Name, number of guns (rank/real amount), launch year (A = built in Arkhangelsk), fate (service = combat service, BU = broken up)
Historically, the Borodino-class battleships established two records; under Russian Admiral Zinovy Rozhestvensky riding in his flagship, Knyaz Suvorov, he led the Russian battleship fleet on the longest coal powered journey ever conducted by a steel battleship fleet during wartime, a voyage of over 18,000 miles (29,000 km) one way.
The Soviet Navy, and the Russian Navy which inherited its traditions, had a different attitude to operational status than many Western navies. Ships went to sea less and maintained capability for operations while staying in harbor. [1] The significant changes which followed the collapse of the Soviet Union then complicated the picture enormously.
Category:Battleships of the Soviet Union. Subcategories. This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total. ...
After the end of the disastrous Russo-Japanese War of 1904–05, the Imperial Russian Navy needed several years to absorb the lessons of that war, particularly from the Battle of Tsushima. Design work continued during this period, but designs for dreadnought battleships evolved constantly as new
Knyaz Suvorov was the lead ship in the Russian battle line and she opened fire at the Japanese battleship Mikasa, flagship of Admiral Tōgō Heihachirō at 14:05. [29] Mikasa and the other Japanese ships began to return fire about five minutes later.
Grisha I class (project 1124.1), 37 ships built in 1966–1982; Grisha II class (project 1124P, P stands for pogranichnyi – on the border), 20 ships built in 1972–1988; Grisha III class (AK-630 CIWS-equipped variant) Grisha IV class (project 1124K) Grisha V class (project 1124M, sometimes noted as 1124.4) Nanuchka class (project 1234 Ovod ...
List of ships of the line of Russia; P. List of ships of Russia by project number; R. List of active Russian Navy ships; S. List of Russian sail frigates