Soviet cruiser Krasnyi Krym

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 Seige of Sevastopol and the Landings at Theodosia. She was reclassified as a training ship in 1945, and an accommodation ship in 1953 and finally scarpped in 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

Links

* [http://flot.sevastopol.info/ship/cruiser/krasniy_krim.htm Cruiser "Krasnyi Krym" from Black Sea fleet (in Russian, with photos)]
*M.J. Whitley, Cruisers of World War Two, An International Encyclopedia, Arms and Armour Press 1995
* [http://ship.bsu.by/main.asp?id=102183 - article from Encyclopedia of ships in Russian]