Editing Kirov-class cruiser (section)

===Postwar careers===
''Kirov'' was damaged by a German magnetic mine while leaving Kronstadt on 17 October 1945. She was under repair until 20 December 1946. Refitted from November 1949 to April 1953, her machinery was completely overhauled, with her radars, fire control systems and anti-aircraft guns being replaced by the latest Soviet systems. She was reclassified as a training cruiser on 2 August 1961, regularly visited [[Poland]] and [[East Germany]], and was sold for scrap on 22 February 1974. Two of her gun turrets were installed at Saint Petersburg as a monument. ''Maxim Gorky'' tested the first Soviet naval [[helicopter]], the [[Kamov Ka-10]], in December 1950 and began her refit in mid-1953. This was planned much like ''Kirov''{{'}}s refit, although her displacement was to increase {{convert|1000|t|LT|0}} from torpedo bulges, with consequent penalties to her speed and range. The Navy reevaluated the scope of the work in 1955, deemed it insufficient to create a fully modern ship, and suspended the refit. ''Gorky'' was sold for scrap on 18 April 1959 after it was decided that she was not required as a missile test ship.<ref name="Yakubov and Worth, pp. 91, 93"/>

''Voroshilov'' began her postwar modernization in April 1954, but encountered the same issues as ''Maxim Gorky''. Unlike her half-sister, she was selected for conversion as a testbed for missile development as Project 33 on 17 February 1956. The conversion process was quite prolonged, as her armament was removed and she received an entirely new superstructure and masts; and she was not recommissioned as ''OS-24'' until 31 December 1961. She was modernized under Project 33M from 11 October 1963 to 1 December 1965. Converted to a floating barracks on 6 October 1972, she was briefly redesignated as ''PKZ-19'' before being sold for scrap on 2 March 1973.<ref>Yakubov and Worth, pp. 91-2</ref> ''Voroshilov''{{'}}s 14-ton [[propeller]] and 2.5-ton stop [[anchor]] are on display at the Museum of Heroic Defense and Liberation of Sevastopol on Sapun Mountain in [[Sevastopol]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Museum of Heroic Defense and Liberation of Sevastopol|title=Sapun Mountain Guide|publisher=PoliPRESS Publisher|location=Simferopol|year=2006|pages=140|language=ru}}</ref>

''Molotov'' suffered a fire in the #2 turret handling room on 5 October 1946 which required the magazine to be flooded; 22 sailors were killed and 20 wounded. She was used as a testbed for the new radars intended for the ''Chapayev'' and {{sclass|Sverdlov|cruiser|0}} cruisers in the late 1940s. Modernized like her half-sister ''Kirov'' between 1952 and 29 October 1955, she was renamed ''Slava'' on 3 August 1957 after [[Vyacheslav Molotov]] fell out of favor with [[Nikita Khrushchev]]. She was reclassified as a training cruiser on 3 August 1961 and deployed to the [[Mediterranean Sea|Mediterranean]] during 5&ndash;30 June 1967 to show Soviet support for [[Syria]] during the [[Six-Day War]]. She returned to the Mediterranean between September and December 1970 where she assisted the {{sclass2|Kotlin|destroyer|1}} ''Bravyi'' after the latter's collision with the [[aircraft carrier]] {{HMS|Ark Royal|R09|6}} on 9 November 1970. She was sold for scrap on 4 April 1972.<ref>Yakubov and Worth, p. 91, 95</ref>

''Kalinin'' was placed in reserve on 1 May 1956, and was restored to the Navy List on 1 December 1957 before being disarmed and converted into a floating barracks on 6 February 1960. She was sold for scrap on 12 April 1963. ''Kaganovich'' was renamed ''Lazar Kaganovich'' on 3 August 1945 to distinguish her from [[Lazar Kaganovich|Lazar's]] disgraced brother [[Mikhail Kaganovich]]. She was renamed ''Petropavlovsk'' on 3 August 1957 after Lazar Kaganovich was purged from the government after an unsuccessful coup against [[Nikita Khrushchev]] that same year. Her superstructure was badly damaged by a Force 12 [[Pacific typhoon|typhoon]] on 19 September 1957 and she was deemed uneconomical to repair and sold for scrap on 6 February 1960.<ref name=y95>Yakubov and Worth, p. 95</ref>