List of battleships of Russia and the Soviet Union

File:Black Sea Battleships.jpg

Russian battleships in the Black Sea during World War I

This is a list of battleships of Russian Empire and the Soviet Union.

Key

Armament	The number and type of the primary armament
Armor	The thickness of the belt armor.
Displacement	Ship displacement at full combat load
Propulsion	Number of shafts, type of propulsion system, designed indicated horsepower, and top speed in knots
Service	The dates work began and finished on the ship and its ultimate fate
Laid down	The date the keel began to be assembled
Launched	The date that the ship was launched
Commissioned	The date the ship was commissioned

Pre-Dreadnoughts

Dvenadsat Apostolov

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File:Dvenadtsat'Apostolov1889-1931Sevastopol-1.jpg

Dvenadsat Apostolov at anchor, Sevastopol

Dvenadsat Apostolov was a pre-dreadnought battleship built for the Black Sea Fleet. She joined the fleet in mid-1893, but was not fully ready for service until 1894. Dvenadsat Apostolov participated in the failed attempt to recapture the mutinous battleship Template:Ship in 1905.Template:Sfn Decommissioned and disarmed in 1911, the ship became an immobile submarine depot ship the following year.Template:Sfn Dvenadsat Apostolov was captured by the Germans in 1918 in Sevastopol and was handed over to the Allies in December. Lying immobile in Sevastopol, she was captured by both sides in the Russian Civil War before she was abandoned when the White Russians evacuated the Crimea in 1920. The ship was used as a stand-in for the title ship during the filming of The Battleship Potemkin and was finally scrapped in 1931.Template:Sfn

Ship	Armament	Armor	Displacement	Propulsion	Service
					Laid down	Launched	Fate
Dvenadsat Apostolov ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}})	4 × Template:CvtTemplate:Sfn	Template:CvtTemplate:Sfn	Template:ConvertTemplate:Sfn	2 shafts, 2 triple-expansion steam engines,Template:SfnTemplate:ConvertTemplate:Sfn	21 August 1889Template:Sfn	13 September 1890Template:Sfn	Scrapped, 1931Template:Sfn

Navarin

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File:Az orosz cári haditengerészet Navarin páncélosa. Fortepan 23425.jpg

Navarin in 1902

Navarin was a pre-dreadnought battleship built for the Baltic Fleet in the late 1880s and early 1890s. The ship spent the early part of her career deployed in the Mediterranean and in the Far East. She participated in the suppression of the Boxer Rebellion in 1900 before returning to the Baltic Fleet in 1901. Several months after the beginning of the Russo-Japanese War in February 1904, she was assigned to the 2nd Pacific Squadron to relieve the Russian forces blockaded in Port Arthur. During the Battle of Tsushima in May 1905, she was sunk by Japanese destroyers which spread twenty-four linked mines across her path during the night. Navarin struck two of these mines and capsized with the loss of most of her crew.

Ship	Armament	Armor	Displacement	Propulsion	Service
					Laid down	Launched	Fate
Navarin ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}})	4 × 12 inTemplate:Sfn	Template:CvtTemplate:Sfn	Template:ConvertTemplate:Sfn	2 shafts, 2 triple-expansion steam engines, Template:ConvertTemplate:Sfn	31 May 1890Template:Sfn	20 October 1891Template:Sfn	Sunk at the Battle of Tsushima, 28 May 1905Template:Sfn

Tri Sviatitelia

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File:Tri SviatiteliaCommons.jpg

Tri Sviatitelia at anchor

Tri Sviatitelia was a pre-dreadnought battleship built for the Black Sea Fleet. She was flagship of the forces pursuing the mutinous battleship Template:Ship in June 1905. During World War I the ship encountered the German battlecruiser Template:SMS (formally Yavuz Sultan Selim) twice, but never hit the German ship, nor was she damaged by her. From 1915 onward she was relegated to the coast bombardment role as she was the oldest battleship in the Black Sea Fleet. Tri Sviatitelia was refitting in Sevastopol when the February Revolution of 1917 began and she was never operational afterwards.

Tri Sviatitelia was captured when the Germans took the city in May 1918 and was turned over to the Allies after the Armistice in November 1918. Her engines were destroyed in 1919 by the British when they withdrew from Sevastopol to prevent the advancing Bolsheviks from using her against the White Russians. She was abandoned when the Whites evacuated the Crimea in 1920 and was scrapped in 1923.

Ship	Armament	Armor	Displacement	Propulsion	Service
					Laid down	Launched	Fate
Tri Sviatitelia ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}})	4 × 12 inTemplate:Sfn	Template:CvtTemplate:Sfn	Template:ConvertTemplate:Sfn	2 shafts, 2 triple-expansion steam engines, Template:ConvertTemplate:Sfn	15 August 1891Template:Sfn	12 November 1893Template:Sfn	Scrapped, 1923Template:Sfn

Sissoi Veliky

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File:Naval ships of Russia by Apostoli - 035. Squadron battleship "Sisoy Velikiy".jpg

A postcard of Sissoi Veliky at anchor

Sissoi Veliky was a pre-dreadnought battleship built for the Baltic Fleet in the 1890s. The ship's construction was marred by organizational, logistical and engineering problems and dragged on for more than five years. She was commissioned in October 1896 with an appalling number of design and construction faults, and only a few of them were fixed during her lifetime. Immediately after sea trials, Sissoi Veliky sailed to the Mediterranean to enforce the naval blockade of Crete during the Greco-Turkish War. In 1897 she suffered a devastating explosion of the aft gun turret that killed 21 men. After nine months in the docks of Toulon for repairs, the ship sailed to the Far East to reinforce the Russian presence there. In the summer of 1900, Sissoi Veliky supported the international campaign against the Boxer Rebellion in China. Sailors from Sissoi Veliky and Navarin participated in the defence of the International Legations in Beijing for more than two months.

In 1902 the ship returned to Kronstadt for repairs, but very little was achieved until the early losses of the Russo-Japanese War caused the formation of the Second Pacific Squadron to relieve the Russian forces blockaded in Port Arthur. Sissoi Veliky sailed for the Far East with the rest of the Baltic battleships and participated in the Battle of Tsushima on 27 May 1905. She survived the daytime artillery duel with Admiral Heihachirō Tōgō's ships, but was badly damaged and taking on water. During the night Japanese destroyers scored a torpedo hit on the ship that damaged her steering. The next morning the ship was unable to maintain speed because of flooding, and her crew surrendered to Japanese armed merchant cruisers. The ship capsized later that morning with the loss of 47 crewmen.

Ship	Armament	Armor	Displacement	Propulsion	Service
					Laid down	Launched	Fate
Sissoi Veliky ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}})	4 × 12 inTemplate:Sfn	14 inTemplate:Sfn	Template:ConvertTemplate:Sfn	2 shafts, 2 triple-expansion steam engines, Template:ConvertTemplate:Sfn	19 May 1892Template:Sfn	1 June 1894Template:Sfn	Sunk at the Battle of Tsushima, 28 May 1905Template:Sfn

Petropavlovsk class

{{#invoke:Labelled list hatnote|labelledList|Main article|Main articles|Main page|Main pages}} The Petropavlovsk class, sometimes referred to as the Poltava class, was a class of three pre-dreadnought battleships built for the Imperial Russian Navy during the 1890s. They were transferred to the Pacific Squadron upon completion and based at Port Arthur before the start of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905. All three ships participated in the Battle of Port Arthur on the second day of the war. Template:Ship sank two months after the war began after striking one or more mines laid by the Japanese. The remaining two ships participated in the Battle of the Yellow Sea in August 1904 and were sunk or scuttled during the final stages of the Siege of Port Arthur.

Template:Ship was salvaged after the Japanese captured Port Arthur and incorporated into the Imperial Japanese Navy. The ship, renamed Template:Ship in Japanese service, participated in the Battle of Tsingtao in late 1914, during World War I. She was sold back to the Russians in 1916 and renamed Template:Ship as her original name was in use by another battleship. The ship became the flagship of the Russian Arctic Flotilla in 1917 and her crew supported the Bolsheviks later that year. She was seized by the British in early 1918 when they intervened in the Russian Civil War, abandoned by them when they withdrew and scrapped by the Soviets in 1924.

Ship	Armament	Armor	Displacement	Propulsion	Service
					Laid down	Launched	Fate
Template:Ship ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}})	4 × 12 inTemplate:Sfn	Template:ConvertTemplate:Sfn	Template:ConvertTemplate:Sfn	2 screws, 2 triple-expansion steam engines, Template:ConvertTemplate:Sfn	19 May 1892Template:Sfn	6 November 1894Template:Sfn	Scrapped, 1924Template:Sfn
Template:Ship ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}})						9 November 1894Template:Sfn	Sunk by mine, 13 April 1904Template:Sfn
Template:Ship ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}})						1 June 1895Template:Sfn	Scuttled, 2 January 1905Template:Sfn

Rostislav

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File:Rostislav battleship.jpg

Rostislav circa 1901

Rostislav was a pre-dreadnought battleship built for the Black Sea Fleet in the 1890s. She was conceived as a small, inexpensive coastal defence ship, but the Navy abandoned the concept in favor of a compact, seagoing battleship with a displacement of Template:Convert. Poor design and construction practices increased her actual displacement by more than Template:Convert. Rostislav became the world's first capital ship to burn fuel oil, rather than coal.<ref name=W57>Willmott, p. 57.</ref> Her combat ability was compromised by the use of Template:Convert main guns instead of the de facto Russian standard of 12 inches.

Her hull was launched in September 1896, but non-delivery of the ship's main guns delayed her maiden voyage until 1899 and her completion until 1900. In May 1899 Rostislav became the first ship of the Imperial Navy to be commanded by a member of the House of Romanov, Captain Alexander Mikhailovich.Template:Sfn From 1903 to 1912 the ship was the flagship of the second-in-command of the Black Sea Fleet. During the 1905 Russian Revolution her crew was on the verge of mutiny but remained loyal to the regime, and actively suppressed the mutiny of the cruiser Template:Ship.

Rostislav was actively engaged in World War I until the collapse of the Black Sea Fleet in the beginning of 1918. She was the first Russian ship to fire upon enemy targets on land during World War I, the first Russian ship to be hit by a German airstrike, and the first one to destroy a submarine, albeit a Russian one. In April 1918 the fleeing Bolsheviks abandoned Rostislav in Sevastopol. One year later the British occupation forces permanently disabled her engines. The White forces repurposed the ship as a towed floating battery, then scuttled her in the Strait of Kerch in November 1920.

Ship	Armament	Armour	Displacement	Propulsion	Service
					Laid down	Launched	Fate
Template:Ship ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}})	4 × Template:ConvertTemplate:Sfn	Template:ConvertTemplate:Sfn	Template:ConvertTemplate:Sfn	2 screws, 2 triple-expansion steam engines, Template:Convert	30 January 1894 (actual) 19 May 1895 (formal)Template:Sfn	2 September 1896Template:Sfn	Scuttled, November 1920Template:Sfn

Peresvet class

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File:Peresvet1901.jpg

Peresvet in the Mediterranean Sea, 1901

The Peresvet class was a class of three pre-dreadnought battleships built for the Imperial Russian Navy around the end of the 19th century. Template:Ship and Template:Ship were transferred to the Pacific Squadron upon completion and based at Port Arthur from 1901 and 1903. All three ships were lost by the Russians in the Russo-Japanese War; Peresvet and Pobeda participated in the Battles of Port Arthur and the Yellow Sea and were sunk during the Siege of Port Arthur. Template:Ship, the third ship, was sunk at the Battle of Tsushima with the loss of over half her crew. Peresvet and Pobeda were salvaged after the Japanese captured Port Arthur and incorporated into the Imperial Japanese Navy. Peresvet was sold back to the Russians during World War I and sank after hitting German mines in the Mediterranean in early 1917 while Pobeda, renamed Template:Ship, participated in the Battle of Tsingtao in late 1914. She became a gunnery training ship in 1917 until she was disarmed and hulked in 1922–1923. The ship was scrapped after the end of World War II.

Ship	Armament	Armor	Displacement	Propulsion	Service
					Laid down	Launched	Fate
Template:Ship ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}})	4 × 10 inTemplate:Sfn	9 inTemplate:Sfn	Template:ConvertTemplate:Sfn	3 screws, 3 triple-expansion steam engines, Template:ConvertTemplate:Sfn	21 November 1895Template:Sfn	19 May 1898Template:Sfn	Sunk by mine, 4 January 1917Template:Sfn
Template:Ship ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}})						8 November 1898Template:Sfn	Sunk during the Battle of Tsushima, 27 May 1905Template:Sfn
Template:Ship ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}})					30 May 1898Template:Sfn	21 February 1899Template:Sfn	Scrapped, 1946Template:Sfn

Potemkin

{{#invoke:Labelled list hatnote|labelledList|Main article|Main articles|Main page|Main pages}} Template:Ship («Князь Потёмкин-Таврический», 1900 BSF) – Renamed Template:Ship («Пантелеймон») 1905, renamed Template:Ship («Потёмкин-Таврический) 1917, Template:Ship («Борец за Свободу») 1917, destroyed by British troops at Sevastopol 1919 {-}

Ship	Armament	Armor	Displacement	Propulsion	Service
					Laid down	Launched	Fate
Potemkin ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}})	4 × 12 inTemplate:Sfn	Template:CvtTemplate:Sfn	Template:ConvertTemplate:Sfn	2 shafts, 2 triple-expansion steam engines, Template:ConvertTemplate:Sfn	10 October 1898Template:Sfn	9 October 1900Template:Sfn	Scrapped, 1923 Template:Sfn

Retvizan

{{#invoke:Labelled list hatnote|labelledList|Main article|Main articles|Main page|Main pages}} Retvizan ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}) was a pre-dreadnought battleship built before the Russo-Japanese War for the Imperial Russian Navy in the United States. She was built by the William Cramp & Sons Ship & Engine Building Company of Philadelphia, although the armament was made at the Obukhov works in Saint Petersburg and shipped to America for installation.

Retvizan was torpedoed during the Japanese surprise attack on Port Arthur during the night of 8–9 February 1904 and grounded in the harbor entrance when she attempted to take refuge inside as her draft had significantly deepened from all of the water she had taken aboard after the torpedo hit. She was eventually refloated and repaired by mid-June. She joined the rest of the 1st Pacific Squadron when they attempted to reach Vladivostok though the Japanese blockade on 10 August. The Japanese battle fleet engaged them in the Battle of the Yellow Sea and forced most of the Russian ships to return to Port Arthur after killing the squadron commander and damaging his flagship. She was sunk by Japanese howitzers in December after the Japanese had gained control of the heights around the harbor.

The Japanese raised her after the surrender of Port Arthur in January 1905 and repaired her. She was commissioned in the Imperial Japanese Navy as Template:Nihongo in 1908. In Sasebo when the Japanese declared war on Germany in 1914 she was sent to reinforce the weak British squadron in British Columbia, but was diverted to Hawaii when reports of the arrival of a German gunboat there were received. She was sent to search for other German ships after the Americans interned the German ship in November, but did not encounter any. After World War I she supported the Japanese intervention in the Russian Civil War, but was disarmed in 1922 in accordance with the Washington Naval Treaty. She was sunk as a gunnery target in 1924.

Ship	Armament	Armor	Displacement	Propulsion	Service
					Laid down	Launched	Fate
Retvizan ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}})	4 × 12 inTemplate:Sfn	9 inTemplate:Sfn	Template:ConvertTemplate:Sfn	2 shafts, 2 triple-expansion steam engines, Template:ConvertTemplate:Sfn	29 July 1899Template:Sfn	23 October 1900Template:Sfn	Sunk as a target, 25 July 1924Template:Sfn

Tsesarevich

{{#invoke:Labelled list hatnote|labelledList|Main article|Main articles|Main page|Main pages}} Tsesarevich ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}) was a pre-dreadnought built in France for the Pacific Squadron. She participated in the Russo-Japanese War, and was the flagship of Admiral Wilgelm Vitgeft in the Battle of the Yellow Sea. Her design was the basis of the Template:Sclasss which were built in Russia.

Ship	Armament	Armor	Displacement	Propulsion	Service
					Laid down	Launched	Fate
Template:Ship ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}) Renamed Grazhdanin ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}), 1917	4 × 12 inTemplate:Sfn	Template:CvtTemplate:Sfn	Template:ConvertTemplate:Sfn	2 shafts, 2 triple-expansion steam engines, Template:ConvertTemplate:Sfn	8 July 1899Template:Sfn	23 February 1901Template:Sfn	Scrapped, 1924Template:Sfn

Borodino class

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File:Slava1910sKronstadt.jpg

Slava in Kronstadt, early 1910s

The five Borodino-class battleships (also known as the Suvorov class) were pre-dreadnoughts built between 1899 and 1905 for the Pacific Squadron. Three of the class were sunk and one captured by the Imperial Japanese Navy during the Battle of Tsushima.

Historically, the Borodino-class battleships established two records; under Russian Admiral Zinovy Rozhestvensky riding in his flagship, Template:Ship, he led the Russian battleship fleet on the longest coal powered journey ever conducted by a steel battleship fleet during wartime, a voyage of over Template:Convert one way. Secondly, although sunk in battle, the Borodinos participated in the only decisive battleship fleet action ever fought. Lastly, what may be the most distinctive item of interest for the future, is the fact that the ships were constructed with tumblehome hulls, seemingly wider at the bottom then narrower towards the top. As a lesson from Tsushima, tumblehome construction was discarded in warship design, as they were regarded as unstable under combat conditions.

Ship	Armament	Armor	Displacement	Propulsion	Service
					Laid down	Launched	Fate
Template:Ship ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}})	4 × 12 inTemplate:Sfn	Template:CvtTemplate:Sfn	Template:ConvertTemplate:Sfn	2 screws, 2 triple-expansion steam engines, Template:ConvertTemplate:Sfn	23 May 1900Template:Sfn	8 September 1901Template:Sfn	Sunk during the Battle of Tsushima, 27 May 1905Template:Sfn
Template:Ship ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}})					23 May 1900Template:Sfn	3 August 1901Template:Sfn
Template:Ship ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}})					8 September 1901Template:Sfn	25 September 1902Template:Sfn
Template:Ship ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}})					1 June 1900Template:Sfn	19 July 1902Template:Sfn	Scrapped, 1946Template:Sfn
Template:Ship ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}})					1 November 1902Template:Sfn	29 August 1903Template:Sfn	Scuttled after the Battle of Moon Sound, 17 October 1917Template:Sfn

Evstafi class

{{#invoke:Labelled list hatnote|labelledList|Main article|Main articles|Main page|Main pages}} The Evstafi class were the last pre-dreadnought battleships built for the Black Sea Fleet. They were slightly enlarged versions of the Template:Ship, with increased armour and more guns. Numerous alterations were made as a result of experience in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905 that seriously delayed the completion of the two ships.

They were the most modern ships in the Black Sea Fleet when World War I began and formed the core of the fleet for the first year of the war, before the newer dreadnoughts entered service. They forced the German battlecruiser Template:SMS to disengage during the Battle of Cape Sarych shortly after Russia declared war on the Ottoman Empire in late 1914. Both ships covered several bombardments of the Bosporus fortifications in early 1915, including one where they were attacked by Goeben, but they managed to drive her off. Later, Template:Ship and Template:Ship were relegated to secondary roles after the first dreadnought entered service in late 1915, and were subsequently put into reserve in 1918 in Sevastopol.

Both ships were captured when the Germans took the city in May 1918 and were turned over to the Allies after the Armistice in November 1918. Their engines were destroyed in 1919 by the British when they withdrew from Sevastopol to prevent the advancing Bolsheviks from using them against the White Russians. They were abandoned when the Whites evacuated the Crimea in 1920 and were scrapped in 1922–1923.

Ship	Armament	Armor	Displacement	Propulsion	Service
					Laid down	Launched	Fate
Template:Ship ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}})	4 × 12 in	Template:Convert	Template:Convert	2 screws, 2 triple-expansion steam engines, Template:Convert	13 November 1904	3 November 1906	Scrapped, 1922Template:Sfn
Template:Ship ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}})						4 May 1906

Andrei Pervozvanny class

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File:AndreiPervozvannyy1912Reval.jpg

Andrei Pervozvanny at Reval in 1912

The Andrei Pervozvanny class were the last predreadnought battleships built for the Baltic Fleet. They were conceived by the Naval Technical Committee in 1903 as an incremental development of the Template:Sclasss with increased displacement and heavier secondary armament. Work on the lead ship, Template:Ship (Saint Andrew), commenced at the New Admiralty, Saint Petersburg in March 1904; Template:Ship trailed by six months.

The disastrous experiences of the Russo-Japanese War led to countless redesigns, change orders and delays in construction. After the completion of Andrei Pervozvanny its builders identified seventeen distinct stages of her design. Andrei Pervozvanny was launched in October 1906 but subsequent alterations delayed completion until 1911. Almost all of her hull was armored, albeit thinly; redesign and refinement of protective armor continued until 1912. The ship's armament mixed novel quick-firing, long-range, 8-inch guns with obsolescent 12-inch 40-caliber main guns. The Andrei Pervozvanny-class battleships became the only battleships of the Old World fitted with lattice masts,Template:Efn which were replaced with conventional masts at the beginning of World War I. The imposing ships, the largest in the Russian Navy until the completion of Template:Ship,Template:Efn were dated from the start: by the time of their sea trials the Royal Navy had already launched the Template:Sclass super-dreadnoughts.

In the first year of World War I, Andrei Pervozvanny and Imperator Pavel I comprised the battle core of the Baltic Fleet. For most of the war they remained moored in the safety of Sveaborg and Helsingfors.Template:Efn Idle, demoralized enlisted men subscribed to Bolshevik ideology and on Template:OldStyleDate took control of the ships in a violent mutiny. The battleships survived the Ice Cruise of 1918, and Andrei Pervozvanny later ruthlessly gunned down the Krasnaya Gorka fort mutiny of 1919. After the Kronstadt rebellion the Bolshevik government lost interest in maintaining the battleships, and they were laid up in November–December 1923.

Ship	Armament	Armor	Displacement	Propulsion	Service
					Laid down	Launched	Fate
Template:Ship ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}})	4 × 12 inTemplate:Sfn	Template:ConvertTemplate:Sfn	Template:ConvertTemplate:Sfn	2 screws, 2 triple-expansion steam engines, Template:ConvertTemplate:Sfn	11 May 1905Template:Sfn	30 October 1906Template:Sfn	Scrapped, 1923Template:Sfn
Template:Ship ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}})					27 October 1905	7 September 1907Template:Sfn

Dreadnoughts

Gangut class

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File:The Poltava.jpg

A postcard of the battleship Poltava (1911) at full steam

The Gangut-class battleships were the first dreadnoughts built for the Imperial Russian Navy, begun before World War I. Their role was to defend the mouth of the Gulf of Finland against the Germans, who never tried to enter, so the ships spent their time training and providing cover for minelaying operations. Their crews participated in the general mutiny of the Baltic Fleet after the February Revolution in 1917, and joined the Bolsheviks the following year. The Russians were forced to evacuate their naval base at Helsinki after Finland became independent in December 1917. The Gangut-class ships led the first contingent of ships to Kronstadt even though the Gulf of Finland was still frozen.

All of the dreadnoughts except for Template:Ship were laid up in October–November 1918 for lack of manpower. Template:Ship was severely damaged by a fire while laid up in 1919. Petropavlovsk was retained in commission to defend Kronstadt and Leningrad against the British forces supporting the White Russians although she also helped to suppress a mutiny by the garrison of Fort Krasnaya Gorka in 1919. Her crew, and that of Template:Ship, joined the Kronstadt rebellion of March 1921. After it was bloodily crushed, those ships were given proper 'revolutionary' names. Template:Ship, the former Sevastopol, was modified in 1928 to improve her sea-keeping abilities so that she could be transferred to the Black Sea Fleet which had nothing heavier than a light cruiser available. This proved to be the first of a series of modernizations where each ship of the class was progressively reconstructed and improved. A number of proposals were made in the 1930s to rebuild Template:Ship, ex-Poltava, to match her sisters or even as a battlecruiser by removing one turret, but these came to naught and she was hulked preparatory to scrapping.

The two ships of the Baltic Fleet did not play a prominent role in the Winter War, but did have their anti-aircraft guns significantly increased before Operation Barbarossa in 1941. However this did not help either ship as they attempted to provide fire support for the defenders of Leningrad. Template:Ship had her bow blown off and Template:Ship was badly damaged by multiple bomb hits in September. The former was sunk, but later raised and became a floating battery for the duration of the Siege of Leningrad while the latter spent over a year under repair, although this was lengthened by subsequent bomb hits while in the hands of the shipyard. Both ships bombarded German and Finnish troops so long as they remained within reach, but Oktyabrskaya Revolyutsiya did not venture away from Kronstadt for the duration of the war. Parizhskaya Kommuna remained in Sevastopol until forced to evacuate by advancing German troops. She made one trip to besieged Sevastopol in December 1941 and made a number of bombardments in support of the Kerch Offensive during January–March 1942. She was withdrawn from combat in April as German aerial supremacy had made it too risky to risk such a large target.

Sevastopol and Oktyabrskaya Revolyutsiya remained on the active list after the end of the war although little is known of their activities. Both were reclassified as 'school battleships' (uchebnyi lineinyi korabl) in 1954 and stricken in 1956 after which they were slowly scrapped. There were several plans (Project 27) to reconstruct Petropavlovsk using the bow of Frunze, but they were not accepted and were formally cancelled on 29 June 1948. She was renamed Volkhov in 1950 and served as a stationary training ship until stricken in 1953 and subsequently broken up. Frunze was finally scrapped beginning in 1949.

Ship	Armament	Armor	Displacement	Propulsion	Service
					Laid down	Launched	Fate
Template:Ship ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}})	12 × 12 inTemplate:Sfn	Template:ConvertTemplate:Sfn	Template:ConvertTemplate:Sfn	4 screws, 4 steam turbines, Template:ConvertTemplate:Sfn	16 June 1909Template:Sfn	20 October 1911Template:Sfn	Stricken, 17 February 1956Template:Sfn
Template:Ship ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}})						22 September 1911Template:Sfn	Stricken, 4 September 1953Template:Sfn
Template:Ship ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}})						10 July 1911Template:Sfn	Scrapped beginning in 1949.Template:Sfn
Template:Ship (Template:Langx)						23 July 1911Template:Sfn	Stricken, 17 February 1956Template:Sfn

Imperatritsa Mariya class

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The Imperatritsa Mariya-class ships were the first dreadnoughts built for the Black Sea Fleet. All three ships were built in Nikolayev during World War I. Two ships were delivered in 1915 and saw some combat against ex-German warships that had been 'gifted' to the Ottoman Empire, but the third was not completed until 1917 and saw no combat due to the disorder in the navy after the February Revolution earlier that year.Template:Sfn

Template:Ship was sunk by a magazine explosion in Sevastopol harbor in 1916. Template:Ship, having been renamed Template:Ship in 1917, was scuttled in Novorossiysk harbor in 1918 to prevent her from being turned over to the Germans as required by the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. The crew of Template:Ship, as Template:Ship had been renamed in 1917, voted to turn her over to the Germans. They were only able to make one training cruise before they had to turn her over to the victorious Allies in 1918 as part of the armistice terms. The British took control of her, but turned her over to the White Russians in 1920 who renamed her Template:Ship. She only had one operable gun turret by this time and she provided some fire support for the Whites, but it was not enough. They were forced to evacuate the Crimea later that year and sailed for Bizerte where she was interned by the French. She was eventually scrapped there during the 1930s to pay her docking fees.Template:Sfn

Ship	Armament	Armor	Displacement	Propulsion	Service
					Laid down	Launched	Fate
Template:Ship ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}})	12 × 12 inTemplate:Sfn	Template:CvtTemplate:Sfn	Template:ConvertTemplate:Sfn	4 screws, 4 steam turbines, Template:ConvertTemplate:Sfn	30 October 1911Template:Sfn	19 October 1913Template:Sfn	Stricken 21 November 1925Template:Sfn
Template:Ship ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}})						6 June 1913Template:Sfn	Scuttled, 19 June 1918Template:Sfn
Template:Ship ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}})						15 April 1914Template:Sfn	Sold for scrap, 1936Template:Sfn

Imperator Nikolai I

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Imperator Nikolai I ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}} or Emperor Nikolai I) was built during World War I for service in the Black Sea. She was designed to counter the multiple Ottoman orders for dreadnoughts which raised the possibility that the Russian dreadnoughts being built for the Black Sea Fleet could be out-numbered. The ship used the same main armament as the preceding Template:Sclass, but was larger and more heavily armored. Imperator Nikolai I was launched in 1916, but construction was suspended on 24 October 1917. The Soviets considered completing her in 1923, but rejected the idea. She was towed to Sevastopol in 1927 and scrapped.Template:Sfn

Ship	Armament	Armour	Displacement	Propulsion	Service
					Laid down	Launched	Fate
Template:Ship ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}})	12 × 12 inTemplate:Sfn	Template:CvtTemplate:Sfn	Template:ConvertTemplate:Sfn	4 screws, 4 steam turbines, Template:ConvertTemplate:Sfn	28 April 1915Template:Sfn	18 October 1916Template:Sfn	Scrapped beginning 28 June 1927Template:Sfn

Sovetsky Soyuz class

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The Sovetsky Soyuz-class battleships (Project 23, {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}), also known as "Stalin's Republics", were a class of battleships begun by the Soviet Union in the late 1930s but never brought into service. They were designed in response to the battleships being built by Germany.Template:Sfn Only four hulls of the sixteen originally planned had been laid down by 1940, when the decision was made to cut the program to only three ships to divert resources to an expanded army rearmament program.

These ships would have rivaled the Imperial Japanese Template:Sclass in size if any had been completed, although with significantly weaker firepower: Template:Convert guns compared to the Template:Convert guns of the Japanese ships. The failure of the Soviet armor plate industry to build cemented armor plates thicker than Template:Convert would have negated any advantages from the Sovetsky Soyuz class's thicker armor in combat.Template:Sfn

Construction of the first four ships was plagued with difficulties as the Soviet shipbuilding and related industries were not prepared to build such large ships. One battleship, Sovetskaya Belorussiya, was cancelled on 19 October 1940 after serious construction flaws were found. Construction of the other three ships was suspended shortly after Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941, and never resumed. All three of the surviving hulls were scrapped in the late 1940s.Template:Sfn

Ship	Armament	Armor	Displacement	Propulsion	Service
					Laid down	Launched	Fate
Sovetsky Soyuz ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}})	9 × Template:ConvertTemplate:Sfn	Template:ConvertTemplate:Sfn	Template:ConvertTemplate:Sfn	4 screws, 4 steam turbines, Template:ConvertTemplate:Sfn	15 July 1938Template:Sfn	Never	Ordered scrapped, 29 May 1948Template:Sfn
Sovetskaya Ukraina ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}})					31 October 1938Template:Sfn		Ordered scrapped, 27 March 1947Template:Sfn
Sovetskaya Rossiya ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}})					22 July 1940Template:Sfn
Sovetskaya Belorussiya ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}})					21 December 1939Template:Sfn		Cancelled, 19 October 1940Template:Sfn

Foreign-built ships

Arkhangelsk

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Arkhangelsk in 1944

Template:HMS was loaned by the Royal Navy in 1944 in lieu of reparations from Italy. She was assigned to the Northern Fleet with the name of Arkhangelsk and used to escort convoys during the war. Returned to Britain in poor condition in 1949 when the USSR received the Template:Ship and sold for scrap.

Ship	Armament	Armour	Displacement	Propulsion	Service
					Laid down	Launched	Fate
Template:Ship ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}})	8 × Template:CvtTemplate:Sfn	Template:ConvertTemplate:Sfn	Template:ConvertTemplate:Sfn	4 screws, 4 steam turbines, Template:ConvertTemplate:Sfn	15 January 1914Template:Sfn	29 April 1915Template:Sfn	Scrapped, 1949Template:Sfn

Novorossiysk

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Novorossiysk, Sevastopol, 1950

The Italian battleship Giulio Cesare was turned over to the Soviet Union by Italy in 1948 as war reparations. Renamed Novorossiysk, she was assigned to the Black Sea Fleet. Sunk with 608 deaths following explosion in 1955; probably due to striking a leftover German mine.

Ship	Armament	Armour	Displacement	Propulsion	Service
					Laid down	Launched	Fate
Template:Ship ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}})	10 × Template:CvtTemplate:Sfn	250 mmTemplate:Sfn	Template:ConvertTemplate:Sfn	2 screws, 2 steam turbines, Template:ConvertTemplate:Sfn	24 June 1910Template:Sfn	15 October 1911Template:Sfn	Sunk 1955, Scrapped 1957Template:Sfn

See also

• List of battleships

References

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