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The Kirov class, Soviet designation Project 1144 Orlan (Russian: Орлан, lit. 'sea eagle'), is a class of nuclear-powered guided-missile heavy cruisers of the Soviet Navy and Russian Navy, the largest and heaviest surface combatant warships (i.e. not an aircraft carrier or amphibious assault ship) in operation in the world.
Kirov is the lead ship of the Kirov class of nuclear-powered guided missile cruisers.Originally built for the Soviet Navy and passed onto the succeeding Russian Navy, she and her three sister ships are the largest and heaviest surface combatant warships (i.e. not an aircraft carrier or amphibious assault ship) built by them.
Pyotr Velikiy (Russian: Пётр Великий) is the fourth Kirov-class battlecruiser of the Russian Navy.She was initially named Yuri Andropov (Russian: Юрий Андропов) after Yuri Andropov, the former General Secretary of the Communist Party, but the ship's name was changed after the fall of the Soviet Union.
With the possible exception of the aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov, no Russian warships are as imposing as the Kirov-class battlecruisers.
Borodino-class vessel under construction in Saint Petersburg in 1916 Kirov-class missile cruiser at sea in 1986. After the end of the Russo-Japanese War of 1905, the Russian Naval General Staff decided that it needed a squadron of fast "armored cruisers" (Броненосный крейсер; bronenosnyy kreyser) [note 1] that could use their speed to maneuver into position to engage the head ...
Kirov class (most likely Admiral Lazarev). The vessels of the Kirov class are the world's largest cruisers, and for this reason they are generally referred to as battlecruisers . Two Kirov battlecruisers are currently in service, Admiral Nakhimov and Pyotr Velikiy .
Admiral Nakhimov (Russian: Адмирал Нахимов) is the third battlecruiser of the Russian Navy's Kirov class. The ship was originally commissioned into service with the Soviet Navy in 1988, known back then as Kalinin (Калинин), a name the ship kept until 1992 when it was renamed for Pavel Nakhimov.
The Kirov-class (Project 26) cruisers were a class of six cruisers built in the late 1930s for the Soviet Navy.After the first two ships, armor protection was increased and subsequent ships are sometimes called the Maxim Gorky class.