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Soviet cruiser Krasny Krym

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Class overview
NameKrasny Krim (exSvetlana)
Operators Soviet Navy
In commission21 March 1926 - 1958
Completed1
General characteristics
TypeLight cruiser
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6700 tons (standard)
8041 tons full load)
Length158.4 m overall
Beam15.4 m
Draft6 m
Propulsion4 shaft 13 Yarrow oil boilers, 4 Curtis AEG turbines, 50,000 shp
Speed29 knots @ 50,000 shp
Range3350 nautical miles @ 14 knots
Complement850
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    • 15 - 130 mm guns (15 × 1),
    • 4- 45 mm AA guns,
    • 6 - 21 in torpedo tubes (2x3),
    • 100 mines
    • ( 6 100 mm AA guns, 3 × 2, added in 1938)
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75 mm main belt
30bmm deck
75 mm conning tower
Aircraft carried1
Aviation facilities1 catapult

The Krasnyi Krym (Красный Крым - Red Crimea) was a light cruiser of the Soviet Navy. She was originally laid down as the Svetlana for the Imperial Russian Navy, the lead ship of the Svetlana class cruisers in 1914. She was built by The Russo Baltic Yard in Reval,Estonia and Launched in 1915. The hull was evacuated to Petrograd and laid up following the Russian Revolution. She was completed by the Soviets in 1926.

She was a near sister of the Chervona Ukraina. Initially named the Profintern (Профинтерн) and based in the Baltic she was transferred to the Black Sea Fleet in 1929 together with the battleship Parizhskaya Kommunna. The Krasnyi Krym survived World War II having fought in the evacuation of Odessa, the Siege of Sevastopol and the Landings at Theodosia. She was reclassified as a training ship in 1945, and an accommodation ship in 1953 and finally scrapped in 1959.

Two sister ships the Admiral Spiridov and Admiral Greig were converted into tankers after the revolution. A fourth ship the Admiral Butakov was scrapped incomplete