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Moskva, formerly Slava, [b] was a guided missile cruiser of the Russian Navy. Commissioned in 1983, she was the lead ship of the Project 1164 Atlant class , named after the city of Moscow . With a crew of 510, Moskva was the flagship of the Black Sea Fleet and the most powerful warship in the region.
The ship became inactive in 1994 and was decommissioned four years later. On 21 February 2021, the Russian Armed Forces and the Russian State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom, signed a contract to dismantle and scrap the nuclear powered heavy cruiser. Admiral Lazarev set sail 30 April 2021 for 30th Shipyard. Dismantlement should be completed ...
S-300F (SA-N-6) missile launchers on a Slava-class cruiser. Moskva is the largest Soviet or Russian warship to be sunk in action since World War II, [70] when German aircraft bombed the Soviet battleship Marat, [71] and the first loss of a Russian flagship in wartime since the 1905 sinking of the battleship Knyaz Suvorov during the Battle of ...
The Russian Navy had plans to extensively upgrade all of their Slava-class vessels during the 2010s; ... Cruiser Moskva. Archived from the original on 22 October 2007
Russian supporters welcome the missile cruiser Moskva, a flagship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, in 2008. ... That wasn’t true, and Russian authorities had always known as much. In fact, back ...
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 ...
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Moskva class: Helicopter carrier 1969 1991 Kiev: Kiev class: Aircraft cruiser: 1975 1993 Sold to Chinese company. Converted to military theme park, then hotel. [1] Minsk: Kiev class: Aircraft cruiser 1978 1993 Sold initially for scrap. Re-sold to China as museum piece. [citation needed] Novorossiysk: Kiev class: Aircraft cruiser 1982 1993