Project 68bis

Sverdlov class

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Sverdlov - Baltic Shipyard, Leningrad - serial no. 408 - laid down 15.10.49 - launched 5.7.50 - completed 15.5.52; 31.8.52 accepted into the 4th Fleet (Baltic Fleet from 24.12.55); 11.6 to 18.6.53 visited Portsmouth, England, to celebrate the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II - after return to Baltiysk, visited by Minister of Defence Bulganin; 12.10 to 17.10.55 again visited Portsmouth, England; 20.7 to 25.7.56 visited Rotterdam. Holland; 24.12.60 to 14.7.61 repairs and modernisation at Baltic Shipyard, Leningrad; from 1962 attached to the 128th Missile Ship Brigade; 1.10 to 30.10.64 operated in the Northern Atlantic and the North Sea, tracking the NATO exercise "Folens-64", together with EM "Spravedlivyy", four submarines and two tankers; 12.2.66 to 29.4.66 repairs at Baltic Shipyard, Leningrad; 4.66 relegated to the reserve, and was mainly used for training purposes; 11.2.72 back to active duty, but still mainly used for training purposes and friendly port visits; 4.73 to 8.73 operations in the Atlantic, together with SKR "Bodryy", EM "Slavnyy" and "Nastoychivyy" - developing methods to track US SSBN's off the approaches to Rota, Spain; 5.10 to 9.10.73 visited Gdynia, Poland - together with BPK "Silnyy" and SKR "Bditelnyy"; 16.4 to 22.4.74 visited Algiers, Algeria - together with EM "Nakhodchivyy"; 21.6 to 26.6.74 visited Cherbourg, France - together with EM "Nastoychivyy"; 27.6 to 1.7.75 visited Gdynia, Poland - together with SKR "Silnyy" and "Bodryy"; 21.6 to 26.6.76 visited Bordeaux, France; 5.10 to 9.10.76 visited Rostock, East Germany; 7.2.77 to 14.2.78 repairs at Baltic Shipyard, Leningrad; 14.2.78 relegated to the reserve - stationed at Liepaya; 30.5.89 decommissioned; 1990 towed to Kronshtadt; early 1991 sold to an Indian company for scrap; 10.93 towed to India and scrapped

Zhdanov - Baltic Shipyard, Leningrad - serial no. 419 - laid down 11.2.50 - launched 27.12.50 - completed 31.12.52; 25.1.53 accepted into the 8th Fleet (Baltic Fleet from 24.12.55); 11.11.56 took part in rescue operations for the submarine "M-200"; 9.57 to 10.57 operational tour in the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, together with EM "Svobodnyy" - visited Split, Yugoslavia (12.9 to 18.9.57) and Latakia, Syria (21.9 to 1.10.57); 27.3.60 relegated to the reserve; 28.2.65 reactivated; 24.10 to 19.11.65 sailed from Baltiysk to Sevastopol; 1.12.65 to 1.12.71 repairs and modernisation to Project 68U-1 at Sevmorzavod, Sevastopol (from 5.71 sea trials); from 28.2.70 attached to the Black Sea Fleet (attached to the 150th Missile Ship Brigade); 10.8 to 24.8.72 sailed from Sevastopol to Severomorsk, and took part in the "Sever-72" exercise; 27.9.72 visited by Fleet Commander Gorshkov in Severomorsk; 21.10.72 to 2.12.74 operations in the Atlantic and Mediterranean, together with BPK "Sevastopol", EM "Byvalyy" and four Foxtro class submarines; 17.1 to 3.2.73 minor repairs at Sevmorzavod, Sevastopol; 5.3 to 14.4.73 took part in an exercise in the Atlantic; 31.5.73 began operations in the Atlantic, to provide communications cover for General Secretary Brezhnev, during his visit to the USA and Cuba - returned home 7.73; 25.7.73 to 27.7.73 visited Port Said, Egypt; 30.10 to 23.12.73 docked at Novorossiysk; 27.6 to 1.12.74 operations in the Mediterranean, with flagship 5th Operational Squadron PKR "Moskva" - visited Alexandria, Egypt (31.8 to 5.9.74); 30.3 to 13.7.75 operations in the Mediterranean - visited Split, Yugoslavia (12.5 to 17.5.75) with BPK "Sderzhannyy" and "Skoryy" and Toulon, France (3.7 to 7.7.75) with BPK "Krasnyy Krym"; 15.5. to 7.10.76 operations in the Mediterranean - took part in the "Krym-76" exercise - 13.7 to 17.7.76 visited Tartus, Syria - 23.5 to 25.5.76 meets TAVKR "Kiev" - 28.8.76 escorts submarine "K-22" after the collision with USS "Voge", together with BPK "Smelyy" - 17.9 to 22.9.76 visited Messina, Italy, with BPK "Smelyy"; 1977 to 1980 repairs and modernisation at Sevmorzavod, Sevastopol; 26.7.81 visited by fleet commander Gorshkov; 14.2 to 16.8.82 operations in the Mediterranean - tracked USS "Nimitz" under high speed for 60 hours - 5.6 to 14.6.82 visited Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, together with a Kotlin class destroyer and a Foxtrot class submarine - 27.6.82 conducted a short visit to Tartus, Syria; 9.82 short visits to Poti, Batumi and Novorossiysk; 6.2 to 28.8.83 operations in the Mediterranean - "Okean-83" exercise 20.4 to 24.4.83 - 10.6 to 24.6.83 visited Tartus, Syria - 10.10 to 14.10.83 visited Piraeus, Greece, with SKR "Pylkiy"; 15.2 to 25.4.84 operations in the Mediterranean - visited Tripoli, Libya 10.4 to 14.4.84; 15.5 to 13.6.84 took part in the exercise "Okean-84" in the Mediterranean - together with BPK "Komsomolets Ukrainy", "Sderzhannyy", "Stroynyy" and "Udaloy" - EM "Nakhodchivyy" and "Soznatelnyy" - BRK "Bedovyy" and "Neulovimyy" - SKR "Silnyy", "Druzhnyy" and "Volk" - MRK "Zarnitsa" - submarine "K-298" - intelligence ship "Kildin" and tanker "Desna" - and others; 11.5 to 30.9.85 operations in the Mediterranean - visited Tartus, Syria (18.6 to 9.7.85); 12.9.86 to 13.6.88 repairs and modernisation at Sevmorzavod, Sevastopol; 13.6.88 relegated to the reserve, but did participate in the "Osen-88" exercise 9.88 in the Black Sea; 21.2.89 renamed "KRU-101"; 19.4.90 decommissioned; 1990 sold to an Indian company for scrap; 27.11.91 towed to India

Aleksandr Suvorov - Baltic Shipyard, Leningrad - serial no. 436 - laid down 26.2.51 - launched 15.5.52 - completed 31.12.53; 3.54 accepted into the 8th Fleet (Baltic Fleet from 24.12.55); 2.56 transferred to Severomorsk, and accepted into the Northern Fleet 27.2.56; mid-1956 transferred to the Pacific, via the Northern Arctic route - from 22.10.56 accepted into the Pacific Fleet; from 4.61 attached to the 9th Anti-Submarine Warfare Division; 1971 operations in the Indian Ocean; from 3.72 attached to the 193rd Anti-Submarine Warfare Brigade; 1974 to 1979 repairs and modified to Project 68A in Dalzavod, Vladivostok; 1979 operation in the Indian Ocean; 1980 operation in the Indian Ocean, 1981 operation in the Indian Ocean - 10.3.81 visited Port Louis, Mauritius, after having refuelled from the civilian Tanker "Leninskoye Znamya", to celebrate independence day; 1.12.86 relegated to the reserve - stationed at Sovetskaya Gavan; 15.12.89 decommissioned; 11.91 sold to an Indian company for scrap

Admiral Senyavin - Baltic Shipyard, Leningrad - serial no. 437 - laid down 31.10.51 - launched 22.12.52 - completed 30.11.54; 18.12.54 accepted into the 4th Fleet; 7.9.55 transferred to the Northern Fleet; 7.7 to 19.8.55 sailed from Severomorsk to Vladivostok, via the Northern (Arctic) route; 24.12.55 accepted into the Pacific Fleet; 17.11 to 21.11.59 visited Jakarta, Indonesia, together with EM "Vyderzhannyy" and "Vozbuzhdennyy"; from 4.61 attached to the 9th Anti-Submarine Warfare Division; 31.12.66 to 24.7.72 repairs and conversion to Project 68U-2 at Dalzavod, Vladivostok - trials 9.71 to 12.72; from 9.1.68 attached to the 10th Operational Squadron; 12.72 to 5.73 operations in the Indian Ocean - visited Bombay, India (14.1 to 19.1.73) and Mogadishu, Somalia (15.3 to 20.3.73); 13.3.73 reclassified as a KRU; 11.73 to 4.74 operations in the Indian Ocean - visited Port Louis, Mauritius, together with BPK "Sposobnyy" and a Project 641 submarine (20.12 to 24.12.73) - 9.2 to 15.2.74 visited Bombay, India, together with BPK "Sposobnyy"; 7.4.78 KRU "Admiral Senyavin" with Soviet leader Brezhnev and Minister of Defence Ustinov, joined an exercise in progress and both leaders would observe the exercise; 13.6.78 during artillery training suffered a main turret fire and explosion with 37 dead - repaired; 2.79 to 3.79 operations in the South China Sea, with RKR "Admiral Fokin", BPK "Vasiliy Chapayev", "Sposobnyy", "Stroynyy", "Bozbuzhdennyy" and SKR "Razyashschiy" - showing support for Vietnam during the clashes at the Chinese/Vietnamese border; 5.11 to 10.11.79 visited Haiphong, Vietnam; 1983 operations in the Indian Ocean; 1984 operations in the Indian Ocean; 7.10 to 10.10.88 took part in a surface ship engagement exercise, together with RKR "Varyag", BPK "Marshal Voroshilov", SKR "Gordelivyy" and "Ryanyy"; 30.5.89 decommissioned; 5.92 sold to an Indian company for scrap

Dmitriy Pozharskiy - Baltic Shipyard, Leningrad - serial no. 445 - laid down 28.2.52 - launched 25.6.53 - completed 31.12.54; 31.1.55 accepted into the 4th Fleet; 24.2.55 transferred to the Northern Fleet; 7.7 to 19.8.55 sailed from Severomorsk to Vladivostok, via the Northern (Arctic) route; 7.9.55 accepted into the Pacific Fleet; 21.6 to 26.6.54 visited Shanghai, China; from 4.61 attached to the 9th Anti-Submarine Warfare Division; 1964 long tour with navy cadets - Vladivostok - Sea of Japan - East China Sea - South China Sea - Philippine Sea - Tsugaru Strait - Vladivostok; 1966 long tour with navy cadets - Vladivostok - Sovetskaya Gavan - Magadan - Petropavlovsk-Kamchatka (there 3 days) - Pacific - Korean Strait - Vladivostok; from 9.1.68 attached to the 10th Operational Squadron; from 14.3.68 operations in the Indian Ocean, together with BPK "Steregushchiy", BRK "Gordyy" and tankers "Polyarnik", with support from tankers "Dunay", "Vishera" and civilian tanker "Batumi" - visited Madras, India (28.3 to 31.3.68) - Bombay, India (3.4 to 6.4.68) - BRK "Gordyy" left the task force 7.4.68 and returned home - Mogadishu, Somalia (17.4 to 24.4.68) - Umm-Qasr, Iraq (11.5 to 19.5.68 - BPK "Steregushchiy" in Basra) - Karachi, Pakistan (25.5 to 2.6.68) - Bandar Abbas, Iran (5.6 to 9.6.68) - Aden, South Yemen (6.68) - Colombo, Ceylon (Sri Lanka) (6.7 to 11.7.68) - arrived Vladivostok 28.7.68; 25.4.69 to 23.10.70 repairs and modernisation at Dalzavod, Vladivostok; 13.12.71 to 6.3.72 operated in the Indian Ocean (during the Indian-Pakistan conflict), together with RKR "Varyag", BPK "Vladivostok", "Strogiy", EM "Veskiy" - purpose to ensure non-intervention by the US and Royal Navies; 10.11.74 to 10.6.75 operations in the Indian Ocean - tracked USS "Constellation" - visited Madras, India - Mogadishu, Somalia - Aden, South Yemen - Port Louis, Mauritius (stayed there 15.2 to 1.3.75 to render help in the aftermath of a tropical storm together with the repair ship "PM-125", oceanographic vessel "Sevan" and tanker "Polyarnik"); 6.77 to 7.77 tour with navy cadets - Vladivostok - around Japan - Korean Straits - Petropavlovsk-Kamchatka - Vladivostok; 30.1.79 relegated to the reserve; 5.3.87 decommissioned; 1990 sold to an Indian company for scrap

Ordzhonikidze - Leningrad Shipyard imeni A. Marti - serial no. 600 - laid down 19.10.49 - launched 17.9.50 - completed 18.8.52; 31.8.52 accepted into the 4th Fleet (Baltic Fleet from 24.12.55); 10.7 to 14.7.54 visited Helsinki, Finland; 18.4 to 27.4.56 visited Portsmouth, England during the Khrushchev and Bulganin state visit; 1.8 to 8.8.56 visited Copenhagen, Denmark; 7.8 to 11.8.58 visited Helsinki, Finland; 1.61 sold to Indonesia; from 14.2.61 attached to the Black Sea Fleet; 3.61 to 6.62 modified at SRZ-497, Sevastopol, for warm climate conditions; 6.62 decommissioned from the Soviet Navy; 7.62 to 5.8.62 sailed from Sevastopol to Surabaya, Indonesia, escorted by EM "Vyderzhannyy"; 20.8.62 accepted into the Indonesian Navy and renamed "Irian"; 1972 decommissioned, and scrapped

Aleksandr Nevskiy - Leningrad Shipyard imeni A. Marti - serial no. 625 - laid down 30.5.50 - launched 7.6.51 - completed 31.12.52; 15.2.53 accepted into the Northern Fleet; 5.53 sailed to Leningrad, to participate in the 250th anniversary of the city; 1954 to 1956 several training sorties under arctic conditions; from 31.3.56 attached to the 2nd Cruiser Division; 4.6.57 sailed to Leningrad, to participate in Navy Day celebrations; autumn 1957 repairs at Leningrad; 7.11.57 participated in the 40th anniversary of the October Revolution on the Neva river (Leningrad Oblast); 26.3.58 rescued the crew of a downed Be-6; 10.4 to 15.4.58 took part in an exercise with KR "Admiral Ushakov" and 6 destroyers; 25.12.64 relegated to the reserve - stationed in Kola Bay; 15.12.70 re-activated - attached to the 2nd Anti-Submarine Warfare Division; 28.2 to 2.4.72 took part in rescue operations for the submarine "K-19" in the North Atlantic, together with PKR "Leningrad", BPK "Vitse-Admiral Drozd", "Kronshtadt", PBPL "Magomet Gadzhiev", "SB-38" and rescue ship "Karpaty"; 2.3 to 20.3.83 exercise in Northern waters with BPK "Soobrazitelnyy", EM "Sovremennyy", "Otchayannyy" and "Byvalyy"; 4.9 to 29.9.83 took part in the "Magistral-83" and "Okean-83" command staff exercises, with RKR "Admiral Zozulya", BPK "Marshal Timoshenko", EM "Sovremennyy", "Otchayannyy" and BPK "Admiral Yumashev" and "Stroynyy"; 31.3 to 8.4.84 took part in the "Atlantika-84" exercise, and was part of the 2nd task force wogether with RKR "Admiral Zozulya" and EM "Nesokrushimyy"; 30.5.89 decommissioned and later scrapped

Admiral Lazarev - Leningrad Shipyard imeni A. Marti - serial no. 626 - laid down 6.2.51 - launched 29.6.52 - completed 30.12.53; 18.2.54 accepted into the 4th Fleet (Baltic Fleet from 24.12.55); 27.2.56 transferred to the Northern Fleet; autumn 1956 transferred from Severomorsk to Vladivostok, via the northern (arctic) route - 22.10.56 accepted into the Pacific Fleet; from 4.61 attached to the 9th Anti-Submarine Warfare Division; 26.3.63 relegated to the reserve - stationed at Sovetskaya Gavan; 18.3.72 re-activated again - attached to the 193rd Anti-Submarine Warfare Brigade; 18.9.80 to 3.2.86 overhauled at Dalzavod, Vladivostok; 12.10.86 decomissioned; mid-1991 sold to an Indian company for scrap; apparently the cruiser never conducted any out-of-area deployments

Admiral Ushakov - Sudomekh, Leningrad - serial no. 420 - laid down 31.8.50 - launched 29.9.51 - completed 8.9.53; 19.9.53 accepted into the 8th Fleet (Baltic Fleet from 24.12.55); 16.4 to 21.4.54 visited Stockholm, Sweden; 3.11.56 transferred to the Northern Fleet; 1957 helicopter landing and take-off tests; 9.10 to 10.63 sailed from Severomorsk to Sevastopol - 5.10.63 transferred to the Black Sea Fleet; 18.2.64 relegated to the reserve - stationed in Sevastopol; 15.2.71 re-activated - attached to the 30th Anti-Submarine Warfare Division; 27.6 to 16.12.71 modified to Project 68A in Sevmorzavod, Sevastopol; 2.73 to 12.73 operations in the Mediterranean - visited Latakiya, Syria (6.3 to 12.3.73) together with BPK "Smetlivyy" - 15.10 to 18.10.73 visited Taranto, Italy, together with BPK "Otvazhnyy" - 19.10 to 22.10.73 visited Messina, Italy, together with BPK "Otvazhnyy" - later tacking of USS "Iwo Jima" task force, together with BPK "Reshitelnyy"; 7.8 to 10.8.81 visited Varna, Bulgaria; 11.6 to 15.9.82 operations in the Mediterranean - mainly near Syria - together with RKR "Groznyy", EM "Naporistyy", KRL "Zhdanov" and later KRL "Admiral Ushakov"; 28.2.83 relegated to the reserve - stationed in Sevastopol; 16.9.87 decommissioned; 1992 sold to an Indian company for scrap

Dzerzhinskiy - Marti Yard, Nikolayev - serial no. 374 - laid down 21.12.48 - launched 31.8.50 - completed 18.8.52; 30.8.52 accepted into the Black Sea Fleet; 15.10.57 to 24.12.58 converted to Project 70E at Sevmorzavod, Sevastopol; from 4.60 attached to the 150th Missile Ship Brigade; 3.8.61 reclassified as a KRL (training cruiser); 1961 to 1980 conducted several long distance training sorties, with several foreign goodwill visits - 20.8 to 26.8.64 visited Constanza, Romania, together with EM "Plavmennyy" - 10.7 to 14.7.67 Port Said, Egypt - 9.8 to 12.8.69 Varna, Bulgaria - 26.4 to 30.4.71 Le Havre, France - 14.12 to 18.12.71 Latakia, Syria - 3.76 Tartus, Syria - 4.76 Split, Yugoslavia - 30.6 to 4.7.77 Tunis, Tunisia - 20.10 to 25.10.78 Piraeus, Greece - 16.11 to 20.11.78 Istanbul, Turkey; 5.6 to 30.6.67 and 5.10 to 24.10.73 did operate near Egypt to show support for the Egyptian government; from 6.70 attached to the 11th Anti-Submarine Warfare Brigade; 19.2.80 relegated to the reserve - stationed in Sevastopol; 12.10.88 decommissioned; 1988-1989 scrapped in Inkerman

Admiral Nakhimov - Marti Yard, Nikolayev - serial no. 375 - laid down 27.6.50 - launched 29.6.51 - completed 27.3.53; 8.2.53 accepted into the Black Sea Fleet; 1955 converted to a Project 67EP missile cruiser with one launcher for the Kolchan missile - 1955 to 1956 conducted 27 missile tests against various targets, including the unfinished Project 82 cruiser "Stalingrad" - the Kolchan missile was not adopted for service; 1956 began conversion to Project 67SN with the "Strela" missile, but work stopped 9.56 - instead work continued from 8.57 now as a Project 71 cruiser with the Volkov-M SAM system; in mid-1958 work stopped while plans were modifed, but allw work stopped and was cancelled 7.60 - decommissioned 28.7.60; 6.61 used as a missile target - hulk scrapped at Inkerman 1961-1962

Mikhail Kutuzov - Marti Yard, Nikolayev - serial no. 385 - laid down 23.2.51 - launched 29.11.51 - completed 30.12.54; accepted into the Black Sea Fleet 31.5.55; 29.10.55 helped with rescue efforts when the battleship "Novorossiysk" (ex. Italian Giulio Сеsаrе) suffered an explosion - Mikhail Kutuzov and Novorossiysk were docked side by side in Sevastopol; 1955 visited Constanza, Romania; 1956 visited Split, Yugoslavia and Durres, Albania; 1957 visited Durres, Albania; 1961 apparently visited by cosmonaut Yuriy Gagarin; 1964 visited Split, Yugoslavia and Varna, Bulgaria; 5.67 to 7.67 operations in the Mediterranean - supporting Egypt 1.6 to 30.6.67; 7.68 to 1.69 operations in the Mediterranean - supporting Egypt 1.8 to 31.12.68 - visited Algiers, Algeria; 2.70 to 8.70 operations in the Mediterranean - supporting Syria 1.3 to 31.7.70; apparently stayed in the Black Sea after 1970; 30.3.79 to 30.3.86 repaired and modernised to Project 68A at Sevmorzavod, Sevastopol; 4.86 relegated to the reserve - stayed in Trinity Bay, Sevastopol; 28.7.98 decommissioned; late 2000 to early 2001 repaired, and then stationed in Trinity Bay; 23.8 to 25.8.2001 to Novorossiysk, and 28.7.2002 opened as a Museum ship for the Black Sea Fleet

Molotovsk - Molotovsk SSZ, Severodvinsk - serial no. 301 - laid down 15.7.52 - launched 25.5.54 - completed 30.11.54; 18.2.54 accepted into the Northern Fleet - from 5.56 attached to the 2nd Cruiser Division; 3.8 to 7.8.56 visited Oslo, Norway and 8.8 to 12.8.56 Gothenburg, Sweden; 3.8.57 renamed "Oktyabrskaya Revolutsiya"; 30.8 to 2.9.58 visited Bergen, Oslo and 8.9 to 12.9.58 Copenhagen, Denmark; 16.12.60 transferred to the Baltic Fleet; 27.3.61 relegated to the reserve - stationed at Kronshtadt; 29.4.66 re-activated; .67 to 12.67 operations in the Mediterranean, together with EM "Svetlyy" and BPK "Zorkiy"; 16.11.68 to 25.12.69 repaired and modernised to Project 68A in Sevmorzavod, Sevastopol; summer 1970 to 8.70 operations in the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, together with EM "Speshny" - 17.7 to 23.7.70 both visited Latakia, Syria, while the cruiser visited Cherbourg, France (8.5 to 13.5.70); from 12.70 attached to the 12th Missile Ship Division; 3.71 to 9.71 operations in the Mediterranean and Atlantic Ocean, together with BPK "Obraztsovyy" and EM "Nastoychivyy" and "Speshny" - 17.5 to 25.6.71 and 5.9 to 9.7.71 operated in support of Egypt - visited Copenhagen, Denmark (17.8 - 22.8.71); 14.6 to 29.11.72 operated in the Mediterranean (Task Force KUG-1) together with EM "Speshnyy", BPK "Slavnyy" and SKR "Bodryy" and "Bditelnyy", for submarine hunting (training) and showing support for Egypt (8.9 to 12.9.72) and Syria (25.9 to 1.10.72); 20.7 to 24.7.78 visited Gdynia, Poland and 8.10 to 10.10.78 Rostock, East Germany; 5.10 to 10.10.79 visited Rostock, East Germany, together with SKR "Neukrotimyy" and "Svirepyy"; 27.7 to 30.7.80 visited Gdynia, Poland; 9.8 to 14.8.82 visited Rostock, East Germany; 16.9.87 decommissioned; 1988 to 1990 scrapped in Leningrad

Murmansk - Molotovsk SSZ, Severodvinsk - serial no. 302 - laid down 28.1.53 - launched 24.4.55 - completed 22.9.55; 6.10.55 accepted into the Northern Fleet - from 10.56 attached to the 2nd Cruiser Division; 21.3.57 relegated to the reserve- Saida Bay; 1.6.61 to 2.62 repaired at SRZ-35 in Rosta, and returned to active service; 4.7 to 6.7.63 and 10.8 to 15.8.63 took aprt in command staff exercises; 17.10 to 21.10.64 visited Trondheim, Norway, together with EM "Nastoychivyy"; 22.7 to 3.8.65 and 23.8 to 3.9.65 intercepted US icebreakers attempting penetrate the White Sea; 31.5 to 2.6.67 sailed from Severodvinsk to Guba Zapadnaya, with exercises along the way - onboard the cruiser was CPSU General Secretary Brezhnev, Minister of Defence Grechko, Naval Commander Gorshkov and minister Kosygin; 1.10.67 to 30.9.68 repairs at KMOLZ, Kronshtadt, and took part in the parade at the Neva River (there 27.10 to 8.11.68); 11.68 became the flagship of the 7th Operational Squadron; 18.3 to 6.5.69 operations in the North Atlantic and Mediterranean, together with 8 diesel submarines - visited Annaba, Algeria (12.4 to 18.4.69); 22.8 to 14.10.69 operations in the Mediterranean; 9.4 to 30.4.70 took part in the "Okean-70" exercise in the Atlantic - from 28.4.69 minister of defence Grechko and naval commander Gorshkov was onboard; 3.3 to 22.4.71 operations in the Mediterranean - supporting Egypt and visiting Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia; 10.11.71 sailed for Sevastopol for a new overhaul, but took part in an exercise in the Tyrrhenian Sea (18.11 to 13.12.71); 28.1.72 to 30.11.73 overhaul at Sevmorzavod, Sevastopol; 29.9.73 left for Severomorsk, but conducted operations in the Mediterranean (5.10 to 8.11.73); 1974 took part in the exercises "Ambrazura", "Omega" and "Atlantika-74"; 10.5 to 14.5.78 visited Bordeaux, France - together with BPK "Smyshlennyy"; 1981 took part in the "Zapad-81" exercise; 22.11.82 began repairs at SRZ-82, Roslyakovo - attached to the 48th independent Submarine Brigade; 1983 returned to duty; 1988 to 1989 began conversion to a KRU - tested 1989 - but 1.12.89 relegated to the reserve - stationed in Kola Bay; 3.7.92 decommissioned; 1994 sold to an Indian company for scrapping; 12.94 broke loose during a storm, while under tow to India - beached at Sørøya, Norway; 2010 to 2012 dismantled on site

Kronshtadt - Baltic Shipyard, Leningrad - serial no. 453 - laid down 4.53 - launched 11.9.54; Project 68bis-ZIF; never completed, and scrapped

Tallin - Baltic Shipyard, Leningrad - serial no. 454 - laid down 28.9.53 - launched 28.5.55; Project 68bis-ZIF; never completed, and scrapped

Varyag - Baltic Shipyard, Leningrad - serial no. 460 - laid down 5.2.54 - launched 5.6.56; Project 68bis-ZIF; never completed, and scrapped

Shcherbakov - Leningrad Shipyard imeni A. Marti - serial no. 627 - laid down 6.51 - launched 17.3.54; Project 68bis-ZIF; never completed, and scrapped

Kozma Minin - Leningrad Shipyard imeni A. Marti - serial no. 628 - laid down 6.52; Project 68bis-ZIF; never completed, sections used to contruct "Murmansk"

Dmitriy Donskoy - Leningrad Shipyard imeni A. Marti - serial no. 629 - laid down 4.53; Project 68bis-ZIF; never completed, sections used to contruct "Arkhangelsk" and "Vladivostok"

no name - Leningrad Shipyard imeni A. Marti - serial no. 629 - never laid down

Admiral Kornilov - Marti Yard, Nikolayev - serial no. 395 - laid down 16.11.51 - launched 17.3.54; Project 68bis-ZIF; never completed, and scrapped

no name - Marti Yard, Nikolayev - serial no. 396 - never laid down

Arkhangelsk - Molotovsk SSZ, Severodvinsk - serial no. 303 - laid down 1953; Project 68bis-ZIF; never completed, and scrapped

Vladivostok - Molotovsk SSZ, Severodvinsk - serial no. 304 - laid down 1953; Project 68bis-ZIF; never completed, and scrapped