Soviet cruiser Kalinin Kalinin ( ) was a Project 26bis2 of the Soviet Navy that was built during World War II . She was built in Siberia from components shipped from European Russia . She saw no action during the war and served into the Cold War . Her post - war career was uneventful until she was disarmed and converted into a floating barracks in 1960 . She was sold for scrap in 1963 . Description . " Kalinin " was long at the waterline , and long overall . She had a beam of and had a draft between . " Kalinin " displaced at standard load and at full load . Her geared steam turbines produced a total of on trials , but she fell somewhat short of her designed speed of , only reaching on trials , because she was over overweight . The ship normally carried of fuel oil , at full load and at overload . This gave her an endurance of at with overload fuel . " Kalinin " carried nine 57 - caliber B - 1 - P guns in three electrically powered MK - 3 - 180 triple turrets . The turrets were very small ; they were designed to fit into the limited hull space available and were so cramped that their rate of fire was much lower than designed — only two rounds per minute instead of six . The guns were mounted in a single cradle to minimize space and were so close together that their shot dispersion was very high because the muzzle blast from adjacent barrels affected each gun . Unlike her half - sisters built in European Russia , her secondary armament initially consisted of eight single 55 - caliber 34 - K anti - aircraft ( AA ) guns mounted on each side of the rear funnel because the B - 34 guns originally intended to be used had run into production problems . The 34 - K guns were a stop - gap until the Army 52 - K anti - aircraft gun could be mated with the mount of the 34 - K and put into production as the 90 - K . They replaced the 34 - K guns in May 1943 . Light AA guns initially consisted of six semi - automatic 21 - K AA guns with 600 rounds per gun , ten fully automatic 70 - K AA guns with a thousand rounds per gun , and six DK machine guns with 12 , 500 rounds per gun , but were significantly increased during the war . By 1945 " Kalinin " had exchanged her 45 mm guns for nine additional 70 - K AA guns . By 1957 her light anti - aircraft armament consisted of only nine powered 37 mm V - 11 mounts . Six 39 - Yu torpedo tubes were fitted in two triple mountings , one on each side . She received the Lend - Lease ASDIC - 132 sonar system , which the Soviets called Drakon - 132 , as well as the experimental Soviet Mars - 72 system . As built " Kalinin " lacked any radar s , but by 1944 she was equipped with British and American Lend - Lease radars as well as Soviet - designed systems . A British Type 291 and an American SG radar were used for air search . Two Soviet Yupiter - 1 radars were used for main battery fire control while anti - aircraft fire control was provided by two British Type 282 radars . Service . " Kalinin " was one of the Project 26bis2 cruisers , the third pair of the s . She was larger and had a more powerful anti - aircraft armament than her half - sisters . She was assembled at the newly constructed Shipyard 199 , Komsomolsk - on - Amur , from components built at the Shipyard 198 ( Marti South ) in Nikolayev . She was laid down on 12 August 1938 , launched from drydock on 8 May 1942 and was completed on 31 December 1942 after being towed down the Amur River to Vladivostok . Her construction was prolonged by late deliveries from western factories . For example her propellers had to be shipped from Leningrad after it had been surrounded by the Germans and her propeller shafts had to be removed from the " Barrikada " factory in Stalingrad in 1942 before it was destroyed by the Germans . She was commissioned into the Pacific Fleet in 1943 . She was ordered to prepare for transfer to the Soviet Northern Fleet via the Northern Sea Route on 24 April 1943 and extensive preparations were made for the voyage . They included the installation of special propellers with removable blades and the strengthening of her hull to withstand ice pressure . The transfer was canceled without explanation on 1 June 1943 , but the alterations remained in place until 1944 . She remained inactive during the Soviet invasion of Manchuria in 1945 . " Kalinin " hosted the State Commissariat for Defence ( — NKO ) during their visit to the Pacific Fleet in October 1954 and demonstrated her main guns while they were aboard . She spent the post - war period on routine training missions until she was placed in reserve on 1 May 1956 . She was reactivated on 1 December 1957 before being disarmed and converted into floating barracks " PKZ - 21 " on 6 February 1960 . " Kalinin " was finally sold for scrap on 12 April 1963 .