General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Originally built as a "Gnevny"-class ship, "Strashny" and her sister ships were completed to the modified Project 7U design after Joseph Stalin, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, ordered that the latter be built with their boilers arranged "en echelon", instead of linked as in the "Gnevny"s, so that a ship could still move with one or two boilers disabled.