Check out our 2022 overview post of some of the great Mykolaiv-built Cold War cruisers.
Slava-Class / Project 1164 Atlant Guided Missile Cruiser LOA 612′ / 186.5 m TDISP 12,000 tons (2 active, 1 sunk, 1 incomplete in Ukraine) All units built at Mykolaiv.
Moskva (formerly Slava) (1983-2022) In long-term refit 1990-1998. Black Sea flagship 2000-2022. Reported by both Russian and Ukrainian sources to have been heavily damaged or destroyed 13 April 2022 during the 2022 Russian War in Ukraine by either an accidental explosion or an anti-ship missile strike, possibly by Neptune Anti-ship missiles. Reported to have sunk in heavy seas while under tow to Sevastopol, 14 April.
Soviet guided missile cruiser Slava underway in the Mediterranean Sea. [detail of], 1986. Credit NARA, USN official 330-CFD-DN-SC-86-03642 (PH1 Paul D. Goodrich)Marshal Ustinov (formerly Admiral Flota Lobov) (1986)
Varyag during bilateral exercises with USS McCampbell 2011. US Navy: 474168 Petty Officer 3rd Class Corey Hensley
Ukrayina (formerly Komsomolets) (not completed) Mykolaiv, Ukraine, awaiting scrapping or sale
Kara Class / Project 1134B Berkut B Missile Cruiser LOA 569′ / 173.4 m TDISP 8,900 tons (7 retired, 6 scrapped, 1 derelict and awaiting scrapping, service 1971-2014)
Petrpavlovsk shadowing recovery operations of flight Korean Air 007, 1983 NARA 330-CFD-DN-SN-89-04567 PH1 Felimon Barbante, USN [Detail]Kerch (1974-2014) Black Sea flagship 1994-1997. Laid up after 2014 fire, scrapped at Inkerman, Sevastopol, 2020.
Kara Class cruiser Kerch 1986 NARA: 330-CFD-DN-ST-86-11183
Ochakov (1973 – 2011) laid up for scrapping at Lake Donuzlav after being used as a blockship in 2014 during intervention in Ukraine.
Ochakov in Lake Donuzlav, awaiting dismantling, 2017, 2 years after it was used as a blockship nearby by Russian forces, to block Ukranian naval units. Credit: Mitte27, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
Azov (1975 – 2000) dismantled South of Sevastopol, Black Sea. First ship to be test-fitted with a Vertical Launching System (VLS)
Kara Class cruiser Kerch n.d. NARA: 330-CFD-DN-SC-89-01795
Kynda Class / Project 58 LOA 468′ / 142.6 m TDISP 5,500 tons (4, all scrapped)
Kynda Class cruiser underway, 1985 NARA 330-CFD-DN-SN-86-00746
Marshal Ustinov (formerly Admiral Flota Lobov) (1986)
Ukrayina (formerly Komsomolets) (not completed) Mykolaiv, Ukraine, awaiting scrapping or sale
Azov (1975 – 2000) dismantled South of Sevastopol, Black Sea. First ship to be test-fitted with a Vertical Launching System (VLS)
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