Mikhail Kutuzov

Type:
Light Cruiser
Class:
Sverdlov
Builder:
Shipyard 444 A. Marti (South)
Mykolaiv, Ukraine
Pennant Number:
See below
Ordered:
February 22, 1950
Launched:
November 29, 1951
Keel Laid:
February 23, 1951
Commissioned:
February 30, 1954
Fate:
On display as a museum ship in Novorossiysk, Russia.
Pennants:
4 (1954), 18 (1954), 554 (1955), 46 (1957), 24 (1958), 131 (1959), 590 (1960),
108 (1962), 131 (1965), 832 (1968), 850 (1968), 856 (1969), 590 (1970), 859 (1970),
850 (1971), 854 (1977), 020 (1977), 010 (1978), 113 (1978), 920 (1980), 113 (1984),
105 (1984), 852 (?), 100 (?), 102(?) (Source: (Source: www.russianships.info)

Ship's history (courtesy of Wikipedia)
Mikhail Kutuzov (Russian: ?????? ???????) was a light cruiser project no. 68-bis (designated the Sverdlov class by NATO) of the Soviet and later the Russian Navy's Black Sea Fleet.

She was laid down at the Black Sea Shipyard in Nikolayev on 23 February 1951 and commissioned on 30 February 1954. Mikhail Kutuzov joined the Black Sea Fleet after commissioning and sea trials, on 31 January 1955.

On 28 July 2002, Mikhail Kutuzov was opened to the public as a museum ship in Novorossiysk. On 1 October 2012, she was made a branch of the Central Naval Museum.


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Page published Dec. 19, 2008