page_title: List of cruisers of the Russian Navy
section_title: Light cruisers (KRL)
hierarchical_section_title: List of cruisers of the Russian Navy / Cruisers of the Soviet and modern Russian Navy / Light cruisers (KRL)
caption_attribution_description: English: The Soviet cruiser Voroshilov, 20 June 1941. Русский: Крейсер Ворошилов, 20 июня 1941 года.
context_page_description: Until 1892, there was no standardized name for ships of the cruiser type. They were classified as armoured frigates, armoured corvettes and even screw corvettes. The "Cruiser" \ «крейсер» designation appeared in 1878, but only for auxiliary non-protected ships. Starting in 1892 and up to 1907, all of these ships were divided between 1st rank cruisers and 2nd rank cruisers, although this division did not coincide with the delineation between armoured cruisers & protected cruisers. The designation "auxiliary cruiser" officially appeared in 1904. According to the new classification table of 1907, all cruisers, except auxiliary ships, were divided between "armoured cruisers" and "cruisers". During the first decades of the Soviet Navy the only one "cruiser" designation existed, but in 1949 cruisers were divided between "light cruisers", "heavy cruisers" and "training cruisers". Later "missile cruisers", "anti-submarine cruisers", "aircraft-carrying cruisers", "heavy nuclear missile cruisers" appeared.
context_section_description: Legkiy kreiser \ «лёгкий крейсер» (КРЛ).
  Svetlana class (8 units, commissioned 3). Laid up as far back as in Imperial Russia, but were not completed due to the Revolution and Civil war. Three of them were completed in Soviet Union. Belonged to the Black Sea Fleet (Profintern – to the Baltic Fleet until 1930).
  Profintern \ «Профинтерн» (ex-Svetlana \ «Светлана», renamed 1925) (1915) - Transferred to the Black Sea Fleet 1929–1930, renamed Krasnyi Krym \ «Красный Крым» 1939, Training cruiser 1954, BU 1959. Guards cruiser since 1942.
  Admiral Butakov \ «Адмирал Бутаков» (1916) - Non completed, laid up 1917, sunk 1942, BU 1952
  Admiral Spiridov \ «Адмирал Спиридов» (1916) - Completed as tanker Grozneft‘ \ «Грознефть» 1926, BU 1952
  Admiral Greig \ «Адмирал Грейг» (1916) - Completed as tanker Azneft‘ \ «Азнефть» 1926, wrecked 1937
  Admiral Nakhimov class
  Chervona Ukraina \ «Червона Украина», and also «Червона Україна» (ex-Admiral Nakhimov \ «Адмрал Нахимов») (1915) - sank 1941
  Krasnyi Kavkaz \ «Красный Кавказ» (ex-Admiral Lazarev \ «Адмирал Лазарев») (1916) - Training cruiser 1947, sunk as target 1952. Guards cruiser since 1942.
  Admiral Kornilov \ «Адмирал Корнилов» (1917) - Non completed, BU 1932
  Admiral Istomin \ «Адмирал Истомин» - Non completed, BU on slip 1927
  Kirov class (Project 26 and 26-bis) (6 units). These cruisers were classified as light, but possessed 7-inch main calibre (making them heavy cruisers under the original definition of a heavy cruiser as a ship no more than 10,000 long tons with a main battery of more than 6.1-inch (155mm) but no more than 8-inch (203.4mm))
  Project 26 (Kirov subclass) (2 units)
  Kirov \ «Киров» (1936 Baltic Fleet) - Damaged by air bombs in 1941 & 1942, repaired 1943, decommissioned 1974
  Voroshilov \ «Ворошилов» (1937 Black Sea Fleet) - Reconstructed as Project 33M experimental vessel 1963, BU 1970s
  Project 26bis (Maxim Gorky subclass) (4 units)
  Maxim Gorky \ «Максим Горький» (1938 Baltic Fleet) - Mined 1941, repaired 1941, BU 1958
  Molotov \ «Молотов» (1939 Black Sea Fleet) - Torpedoed 1942, repaired 1943, transformed to training cruiser and renamed Slava \ «Слава» 1958, decommissioned 1972
  Kalinin \ «Калинин» (1942 Pacific Ocean Fleet) - BU 1961
  Kaganovich \ «Каганович» (1944 Pacific Ocean Fleet), renamed Lazar Kaganovich 1945, renamed Petropavlovsk 1957
  Chapayev (Project 68 and 68K) class (7 units, commissioned 5)
  Chapayev \ «Чапаев» (1941) - Completed according to Project 68K 1950, training cruiser 1958, hulked as floating barracks 1960, decommissioned 1963
  Kuibyshev \ «Куйбышев» (1941) - Commissioned 1950, training cruiser 1958, decommissioned 1965
  Zhelezniakov \ «Железняков» (1941) - Completed according to Project 68K 1950, training cruiser 1961, decommissioned 1975
  Chkalov \ «Чкалов» (1947) - Completed according to Project 68K 1950, training cruiser Komsomolets \ «Комсомолец» 1958, decommissioned 1979
  Frunze \ «Фрунзе» (1940) - Completed according to Project 68K 1950, Training cruiser 1958, decommissioned 1960
  Ordzhonikidze \ «Орджоникидзе» - Blown up on slip 1941 to prevent capture, BU by Germans until 1943
  Sverdlov \ «Свердлов» - Blown up on slip 1941 to prevent capture, BU by Germans until 1943
  Murmansk \ «Мурманск» (1921; ex-American Milwaukee) - Delivered from U.S.A. on account of reparations from Italy 1944, returned to US 1947 (instead of Emanuele Filiberto Duca d'Aosta), BU 1949
  Admiral Makarov \ «Адмирал Макаров» (1934; ex-German Nürnberg) - Accepted by USSR according to reparations from Germany 1946, training cruiser 1957, decommissioned 1959
  Kerch‘ \ «Керчь» (1934; ex-Italian Emanuele Filiberto Duca d'Aosta - Accepted by USSR according to reparations from Italy 1949, training cruiser 1956, decommissioned 1959
  Sverdlov (Project 68bis) class (21 units, commissioned 14)
  Sverdlov \ «Свердлов» (1950) - Laid up 1966, recommissioned 1972, laid up 1978, decommissioned 1989 and sold for BU
  Ordzhonikidze \ «Орджоникидзе» (1950) - Sold to Indonesia 1962, renamed Irian, BU 1972
  Zhdanov \ «Жданов» (1950) - Rebuilt to staff ship (project 68U-1) 1970, laid up 1988, decommissioned 1990 and
caption: Cruiser Voroshilov (1937). Sevastopol, June 20, 1941 (two days before the war)
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