Russian cruiser Nikolayev

History
Nikolayev in 1986
Soviet Union
Name:	Nikolayev
Builder:	61 Kommunara Shipbuilding Plant^[1]
Laid down:	25 June 1968
Launched:	19 December 1969
Commissioned:	31 December 1971
Decommissioned:	3 July 1992
Fate:	Scrapped, 1994
General characteristics
Class & type:	Kara-class cruiser
Displacement:	8,200 tons standard 9,700 tons full load^[2]
Length:	173.2 m (568 ft)
Beam:	18.6 m (61 ft)
Draught:	6.7 m (22 ft)
Propulsion:	2 shaft COGAG, 4 gas turbines, 120,000 hp (89 MW)
Speed:	34 knots (63 km/h; 39 mph)
Range:	9,000 nmi (17,000 km; 10,000 mi)
Complement:	380
Armament:	2 quad SS-N-14 Silex anti-submarine missiles 2 twin SA-N-3 Goblet surface-to-air missile launchers (80 missiles) SA-N-4 Gecko surface-to-air missile launchers (40 missiles) 2 twin 76mm AK-726 dual purpose guns 4 30mm AK-630 CIWS 2 × 5 533 mm PTA-53-1134B torpedo tubes 2 RBU-6000 anti-submarine rocket launchers 2 RBU-1000 anti-submarine rocket launchers
Aircraft carried:	1 Kamov Ka-25 'Hormone-A' or Kamov Ka-27 'Helix'

Nikolayev was the lead ship of the Kara-class cruisers of the Soviet Navy. She was launched in December 1969 and completed in December 1971. After the fall of the USSR, she was transferred to the Ukrainian Navy. In 1994 she was scrapped in India.^[2]

References

↑ "Nikolayev". World Warships. Matterson Marine Pty Ltd. Retrieved 15 June 2013.
1 2 Chant, Chris (2004). Warships Today. Summertime Publishing Ltd. p. 98. ISBN 0-7607-6700-9.

Kara-class cruisers

Nikolayev Ochakov Kerch Azov Petropavlovsk Tashkent Tallinn / Vladivostok

Preceded by: Kresta II class Followed by: Slava class

List of cruisers of the Soviet Navy List of cruisers of the Russian Navy

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