Soviet destroyer Kalinin

Soviet Union
Name	Kalinin (Незаможный)
Builder	Böcker and Lange, Reval, Estonia
Laid down	1913
Launched	1914
Acquired	1918
Commissioned	1927
Fate	Sunk by naval mines, 28 August 1941
General characteristics (as built)
Class and type	Izyaslav-class destroyer
Displacement	1,350 long tons (1,370 t)
Length	99.1 m (325 ft 2 in)
Beam	9.4 m (30 ft 10 in)
Draught	3 m (9 ft 10 in)
Installed power	5 boilers 25,500 shp (19,000 kW)
Propulsion	2 shafts; 2 steam turbines
Speed	33 knots (61 km/h; 38 mph)
Complement	150
Armament	5 × single 102 mm (4 in) guns 1 × single 76 mm (3 in) AA gun 3 × triple 18 in (457 mm) torpedo tubes 60 mines

Kalinin (Russian: Азард) was one of five Izyaslav-class destroyers ordered for the Russian Imperial Navy during the 1910s. Not completed during the First World War, she was finally finished by the Soviets in 1927. She played a small role in the Winter War with the Baltic Fleet when Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941 (Operation Barbarossa), and was sunk by naval mines on 28 August 1941.

Design and description

Ordered from Böcker and Lange's shipyard in Reval, Estonia, in the 1912 naval program, the Izyaslav-class destroyers were improved versions of the preceding Leytenant Ilyin class with a heavier armament.

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