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The ''Admiral Nakhimov''-class cruisers were a group of four light cruisers built for the Imperial Russian Navy just before World War I began in 1914. Construction was interrupted by the Russian Revolution and only two of the ships were eventually completed well after the end of the Russian Civil War by the Soviets. ''Chervona Ukraina'' was the first ship completed and was built to essentially the original design. ''Krasnyi Kavkaz'' was much modified and completed five years after ''Chervona Ukraina''. Both ships participated in the Sieges of Odessa and Sevastopol after the Germans invaded Russia in June 1941. They ferried troops into the cities, evacuated wounded and bombarded the besieging German troops. ''Chervona Ukraina'' was bombed and sunk by dive bombers in November during one of these missions and ''Krasny Kavkaz'' was badly damaged by the same type of aircraft in January 1942. After her lengthy repairs were completed, the ship transported reinforcements to cities on the Black Sea coast during the Battle of the Caucasus. She was reclassified as a training ship in 1947 before she was sunk as a target in 1956. ''Chervona Ukraina'' was salvaged in 1947 and then became a hulked. She became a target ship in 1950. ==Description== The ships were essentially enlarged versions of the cruisers, modified after consultations with the Scottish firm of John Brown & Company.〔Gardiner and Gray, p. 306〕 As designed, the ships displaced . They had an length at the waterline of , a beam of and a mean draft of about . They were powered by four Brown-Curtis steam turbines, each driving one shaft, which developed a total of and gave a maximum speed of . The engines were powered by 14 Yarrow water-tube boilers. Four were coal-fired while the rest were mixed-firing. The ship carried a maximum of of coal and an additional of fuel oil that was sprayed on the coal to increase its burn rate in the mixed-firing boilers. At full capacity, she could steam for at a speed of . The ships' crew numbered 630 officers and men.〔Breyer, p. 118〕 The ships' main armament consisted of fifteen 55-caliber 130 mm/55 B7 Pattern 1913 guns in single mounts. Six of these were mounted in casemates. Her anti-aircraft (AA) armament consisted of four guns. They also mounted two submerged torpedo tubes.〔 The ships were intended to carry one seaplane.〔 The cruisers' waterline belt consisted of of Krupp cemented armor and above it was an upper belt thick. The gun shields were protected by of armour. Each of the armored decks was thick. The armor of the conning tower was thick.〔 In 1917, the Naval General Staff decided to add another seaplane and a crane to handle them. It also decided to upgrade ''Admiral Nakhimov''s anti-aircraft guns to weapons and the other ships of the class would receive AA guns. Neither decision was implemented before construction was suspended.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Admiral Nakhimov-class cruiser」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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