She’s only barely related to Stalingrad and otherwise just has a similar role to Stalingrad, Alaska and Scharnhorst as fast-firing cruiser killers. ![]() In terms of being unique, Kronshtadt is pretty high up. Resemblance: Clone / Sister-Ship / Related Class / Similar Role / Unique Most Relatable Ships: Stalingrad Alaska Scharnhorst She was ordered scrapped on the same day as Kronshtadt. However, when the Germans left the city, they destroyed her building slip and the hull, leaving her a loss. The Germans captured the city, and stripped material off of her incomplete hull. Her sister ship, Sevastopol, was laid down on November 5 th, 1939, and about 12% completed as of June 22 nd, 1941 in Nikolayev, a city in the Black Sea region. However, she was ordered scrapped on March 24 th, 1947. Material from her was taken to help fend off the Germans during the Siege of Leningrad, and she could have been completed post-war. Kronshtadt was laid down on November 30 th, 1939 in Leningrad, and was halted at about 11% completed when Germany commenced Operation Barbarossa. Notably, the fact the Sovetsky Soyuz was being prioritized over the Kronshtadt left both programs crawling slowly in progress. Quality problems, poor productivity, limited industrial capacity, inability to manufacture beyond a certain magnitude, all of these were slowing down the construction of any capitol ship in the Soviet navy. The Soviet industry proved to be very poor at constructing a large scale fleet, as they were plagued by numerous problems. She actually lacks a lot of distinct Soviet/Italian traits, such as distributed armor. ![]() Now where does Project 69 fall? Well, Project 69 was the first Heavy Cruiser design to be approved for construction. The counterparts of said ships would be Project 66 ( Moskva in-game) and/or Project 82 ( Stalingrad). Now, they DID consider the Des Moines and Baltimore-class cruisers to be medium cruisers, and they classified Alaska as a heavy cruiser (if my rough Russian translations are correct). I’m not saying that Soviet designs are good or bad by any standards, but they are not weight-efficient at all. Baltimore, a heavy cruiser, weighs 17,000 tons fully loaded. Consider that Chapayev and Mikhail Kutuzov ( Sverdlov-class) are considered light cruisers, and they weigh more than 14,000 and 16,500 tons fully loaded respectively.
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