Kresta I-class cruiser

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The Kresta I class, Soviet designation Project 1134 Berkut (golden eagle), was a class of guided missile cruiser built in the Soviet Union for the Soviet Navy. The ships were designed for a surface warfare role, but Soviet priorities were changed to an anti-submarine role and only four ships were built in the original anti-ship configuration. They were followed by the Template:Sclass2, an anti-submarine warfare variant.

Design

Though considerably larger, more effective and reliable than the previous Soviet cruiser class, the Template:Sclass2, the Kresta I surface warfare cruisers carried only half as many Shaddock launch tubes and one-fourth the total number of missiles. Initially it was planned to fit the SS-N-12 Sandbox (P-500 Bazalt) missile but the protracted development of this missile led to the older SS-N-3 being shipped. The self-defence armament was considerably increased as were command and communications facilities.

The Kresta Is could launch four SS-N-3b SLCMs and 44 SA-N-1 surface-to-air missiles with two twin launchers fore and aft, and had ten Template:Convert torpedo tubes. A single Ka-25 Hormone B helicopter was carried for targeting the cruise missile, and mid-course corrections.

Ships

The initial plan was for a single squadron of seven ships armed with long range missiles and two squadrons of fourteen ships armed with shorter range missiles. Only four ships were built before production switched to the anti-submarine variant the Kresta II class.

All the ships were built by the Zhdanov Shipyard in Leningrad.

Name	Russian	Laid down	Launched	Commissioned	Decommissioned
	Адмирал Зозуля	26 July 1964	17 October 1965	8 October 1967	15 December 1994
	Владивосток	24 December 1964	1 August 1966	1 August 1969	1 January 1991
	Вице-Адмирал Дрозд	26 October 1965	18 November 1966	27 December 1968	1 July 1990
	Севастополь	8 June 1966	28 April 1967	25 September 1969	15 December 1989

See also

• List of ships of the Soviet Navy
• List of ships of Russia by project number

References

• Also published as

External links

• - Article in Russian
• - page from FAS in English Template:Webarchive
• Template:In lang All Russian Kresta I Class Cruisers - Complete Ship List