Editing Kirov-class cruiser (section)

{{Short description|Class of Soviet light cruisers}}
{{about|the Kirov class of light cruisers|the later class of nuclear-powered missile cruisers|Kirov-class battlecruiser}}

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{{Infobox ship image
|Ship image=Kirov1941-2.jpg 
|Ship caption=''Kirov'' in 1941
}}
{{Infobox ship class overview
|Name=''Kirov'' class
|Builders=*[[Baltic Shipyard|Ordzhonikidze Shipyard]], [[Saint Petersburg|Leningrad]]
*[[Amur Shipbuilding Plant|Amur Shipbuilding Shipyard]], [[Komsomolsk-on-Amur]]
*[[Black Sea Shipyard|Marti South Shipyard]], [[Mykolaiv|Nikolayev]]
|Operators={{navy|Soviet Union}}
|Class before={{sclass|Admiral Nakhimov|cruiser|4}}
|Class after={{sclass|Chapayev|cruiser|4}}
|Subclasses=*Project 26
*Project 26bis
*Project 26bis2
|Cost=
|Built range=1935–1944
|In service range=1938–1970   
|In commission range=  
|Total ships completed=6
|Total ships retired=6
}}
{{Infobox ship characteristics
|Hide header=
|Header caption=(Project 26)
|Ship type=[[Cruiser]]
|Ship displacement=*{{cvt|7890|t|LT|0|lk=on}} ([[Displacement (ship)#Standard displacement|standard]])
*{{cvt|9436|t|LT|0}} ([[full load]])
|Ship length= {{convert|191.3|m|ftin|abbr=on}}
|Ship beam={{convert|17.66|m|ftin|abbr=on}}
|Ship power=*6 Yarrow-Normand [[water-tube boiler]]s
*{{cvt|113500|shp|kW|lk=on}}
|Ship draught={{convert|6.15|m|ftin|abbr=on}} (full load)
|Ship propulsion=2 shafts, 2 geared [[steam turbine]]s
|Ship speed= {{convert|36|kn|lk=in}}
|Ship endurance={{convert|3750|nmi|abbr=on|lk=in}} at {{convert|18|kn}}
|Ship complement=872
|Ship sensors=''Arktur'' underwater acoustic communication system
|Ship armament=*3 × triple [[180mm Pattern 1931-1933|{{convert|180|mm|abbr=on|adj=on}} guns]]
*6 × single {{convert|100|mm|adj=on|abbr=on}} [[DP gun]]s
*6 × single [[45 mm anti-aircraft gun (21-K)|{{cvt|45|mm|in}}]] [[AA gun]]s
*4 × single [[DShK|{{cvt|12.7|mm|in}}]] AA [[machine gun]]s
*2 × triple {{cvt|533|mm|in|0}} [[torpedo tube]]s
*96&ndash;164 [[Naval mines|mines]]
*50 [[depth charge]]s
|Ship armour=*[[Belt armor|Waterline belt]]: {{convert|50|mm|in|abbr=on|0}}
*[[Deck (ship)|Deck]]: {{convert|50|mm|in|abbr=on|0}} each
*[[Gun turret|Turrets]]: {{convert|50|mm|in|abbr=on|0}}
*[[Barbette]]s: {{convert|50|mm|in|abbr=on|0}}
*[[Conning tower]]: {{convert|150|mm|in|abbr=on}}
|Ship aircraft=2 × [[Beriev Be-2|KOR-1]] seaplanes
|Ship aircraft facilities=1 [[Heinkel]] ''K-12'' catapult
|Ship notes=
}}
|}

The '''''Kirov''-class (Project 26) cruisers''' were a [[ship class|class]] of six [[cruiser]]s built in the late 1930s for the [[Soviet Navy]]. After the first two ships, armor protection was increased and subsequent ships are sometimes called the ''Maxim Gorky'' class. These were the first large ships built by the Soviets from the [[keel]] up after the [[Russian Civil War]], and they were derived from the {{ship|Italian cruiser|Raimondo Montecuccoli}}, being designed with assistance from the Italian [[Gio. Ansaldo & C.|Ansaldo]] company. Two ships each were deployed in the [[Black Sea|Black]] and [[Baltic Sea]]s during [[World War II]], while the last pair was still under construction in the [[Russian Far East]] and saw no combat during the war. The first four ships bombarded [[Axis powers|Axis]] troops and facilities after the [[Operation Barbarossa|Germans invaded the Soviet Union]] in June 1941. All six ships survived the war and lingered in training and other secondary roles, with three being [[ship breaking|scrapped]] in the early 1960s and the other three a decade later.