Soviet cruiser Krasnyi Krym
Krasnyy Krim at anchor
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 Soviet Union
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| Name: | Krasnyi Krym |
| Builder: | Russo-Baltic Shipyard, Reval (Tallinn), Estonia |
| Laid down: | 7 December 1913 |
| Launched: | 27 November 1915 |
| Acquired: | November 1917 |
| Commissioned: | 1 July 1928 |
| Renamed: | 31 October 1939 from Profintern |
| Reclassified: | November 1954 as training ship |
| Struck: | July 1959 |
| Honours and awards: |
Awarded Guards title, 18 June 1942 |
| Fate: | Scrapped, July 1959 |
| General characteristics (1928) | |
| Class and type: | Svetlana-class cruiser |
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| Length: | 158.4 m (519 ft 8 in) |
| Beam: | 15.35 m (50 ft 4 in) |
| Draught: | 6.65 m (21 ft 10 in) |
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| Propulsion: | 4 shafts, geared steam turbines |
| Speed: | 29 knots (54 km/h; 33 mph) |
| Range: | 3,350 nmi (6,200 km; 3,860 mi) at 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph) |
| Complement: | 850 |
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Krasnyi Krym (Russian: Красный Крым - Red Crimea) was a light cruiser of the Soviet Navy. She was laid down in 1913 as Svetlana for the Imperial Russian Navy, the lead ship of the Svetlana class. She was built by the Russo-Baltic Shipyard in Tallinn, Estonia and launched in 1915. Her hull was evacuated to Petrograd when the Germans approached the port in late 1917 and laid up incomplete during the Russian Revolution. The ship was completed by the Soviets in 1926. During World War II she supported Soviet troops during the Siege of Odessa, Siege of Sevastopol, and the Kerch-Feodosiya Operation in the winter of 1941—42. Krasnyi Krym was awarded the Guards title on 18 June 1942. The ship was reclassified as a training ship in November 1954 before being scrapped in July 1959.
When Svetlana was towed from Tallinn to St. Petersburg in November 1917 she was about 90% complete and the Soviets expected to commission her in 1919, but she was laid up incomplete due to the disruptions of the Russian Civil War. It wasn't until November 1924 that work recommenced on her and she was renamed Profintern (Russian: Профинтерн) on 5 February 1925. She was completed in October 1926, but she had to return to the dockyard to remedy numerous problems and wasn't commissioned until 1 July 1928.
Profintern was completed to nearly her original design, but was modified to handle aircraft by adding cranes on either side of the middle funnel and a parking area was built for them between the central and rear funnels, although no catapult was ever fitted. Her original internal torpedo tubes were replaced by two triple 450-millimetre (18 in) torpedo tubes mounted on the deck abaft the rear funnel. And her original four 38-caliber 2.5-inch (64 mm) anti-aircraft guns were replaced by nine 30-caliber 3-inch (76 mm) Lender AA guns.
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