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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.
The Kirov-class (Project 26) cruisers were a class of six cruisers built in the ... she was selected for conversion as a testbed for missile development as Project 33 ...
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.
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.
Currently, only the navies of Russia and the United States operate modern vessels classified as cruisers.Russia currently has seven, one (Kirov-class battlecruiser Admiral Lazarev) is afloat but has been inoperative for years and another that only nominally in commission and has not put to sea since 1991 (Kirov-class battlecruiser Admiral Ushakov).
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 ...
1 Kirov-class battlecruiser. 2 Slava-class (Project 1164 Atlant) missile cruiser. ... Slava-class (Project 1164 Atlant) missile cruiser. Moskva (former Slava)