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Admiral Golovko 1980s  

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comm	Fate
Грозный [Groznyy]		780	190 Zhdanov Yd, Leningrad	23.2.1960	26.3.1961	30.12.1962	stricken 6.1991
Адмирал Фокин [Admiral Fokin] (ex-Владивосток [Vladivostok], ex-Стерегущий [Steregushchiy])		781	190 Zhdanov Yd, Leningrad	5.10.1960	19.11.1961	28.12.1964	stricken 6.1993
Адмирал Головко [Admiral Golovko] (ex-Доблестный [Doblestnyy])		782	190 Zhdanov Yd, Leningrad	20.4.1961	18.7.1962	30.12.1964	stricken late 2002
Варяг [Variag] (ex-Сообразительный [Soobrazitelnyy])		783	190 Zhdanov Yd, Leningrad	13.10.1961	7.4.1963	20.8.1965	stricken 4.1990

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	4350
Displacement full, t	5400
Length, m	142.7
Breadth, m	16.0
Draught, m	5.01
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 TV-12 geared steam turbines sets, 4 KVN-95/64 boilers
Power, h. p.	90000
Max speed, kts	34.5
Fuel, t	oil
Endurance, nm(kts)	3500(18)
Armament	2 x 4 P-35 SSM (16 4K44), 1 x 2 M-1 Volna SAM (16 V-600(4K90)), 2 x 2 - 76/59 AK-726, 2 x 1 - 45/66 21KM, 2 x 3 - 533 TT, 2 x 12 RBU-6000 Smerch-2 ASWRL, helicopter deck for 1 Ka-25
Electronic equipment	Groznyy: 2x MR-300 Angara, Don, Yatagan, 2x MR-105 Turel' radars, GS-572 Gerkules-2M sonar, Bizan'-4D, MRP-11-12, 2x MRP-13-14, 2x MRP-15-16 Zaliv, 2x Krab-11, 2x Krab-12, Vzryv ECM suites others: 2x MR-300 Angara, Don, Yatagan, 2x MR-105 Turel' radars, GS-572 Gerkules-2M sonar, Bizan'-4D, MRP-11-12, 2x MRP-13-14, 2x MRP-15-16 Zaliv, 2x Krab-11, 2x Krab-12 ECM suites
Complement	304

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Project history

These four ships were Khrushchev's concession to Soviet naval advocates of surface ships. Like the project 61, they were part of a new generation, development of which was ordered in 1956. The TTZ for this class was approved on 6 December 1956. In effect they replaced four Project 82R missile-firing battlecruisers, carrying the same quadruple missile mounts (but with one rather than two reloads per tube). Like other postwar surface combatants, they had the new pressure-fired steam plant. Like the contemporary project 61, they had the new M-1 defensive missile. Initially they were rated as destroyed and reclassified as cruisers 29.9.1962. Of 16 planned units, only four were built.

Modernizations

early 1970s, all: - 2 x 4 P-35 SSM (16 4K44); + 2 x 4 Progress SSM (16 4M44)

1974-1975, all: - 1 x 2 M-1 Volna SAM; + 1 x 2 Volna-P SAM

1975, Groznyy, Admiral Fokin: - 2x MR-300 Angara radars; + 2x MR-310 Angara-A radars

late 1970s, all: + Don radar (2nd), MR-262 Ograda-1 ECM suite

1975, Groznyy; 1980, Admiral Fokin: + 2x Uspekh-U radars

1980-1982, all: - 1 x 2 Volna-P SAM; + 1 x 2 Volna-N SAM (16 V-601M), 4 x 6 - 30/54 AK-630, 2x MR-123 Vympel-A radars

Naval service

No significant events.