Kalinin () was one of six s (officially known as Project 26) built for the Soviet Navy in the Russian Far East from components shipped from European Russia during World War II. The ship was one of the last pair constructed, known as the Project 26bis2 subclass. Completed at the end of 1942 and assigned to the Pacific Fleet, she saw no action during the Soviet–Japanese War in 1945 and served into the Cold War. Sometimes serving as a flagship, her post-war career was uneventful until she was disarmed and converted into a floating barracks in 1960. She was scrapped in the early 1960s. Description The design of the Kirovs was derived from the Italian light cruisers, modified to suit their more powerful armament. The two Project 26bis2 ships were slightly larger than the earlier Project 26 and 26bis ships and were fitted with a different anti-aircraft armament. Kalinin was long at the waterline, and long overall. She had a beam of and had a draught between . The ship displaced at standard load and at full load. Her crew numbered 812 officers and men during wartime. The Kirov-class ships were powered by two sets of TV-7 geared steam turbines, each driving a single propeller shaft using steam provided by six Yarrow-Normand boilers. The turbines were designed to produce which was intended to give the ships a speed of . On her sea trials, Kalinin only reached from . Without overload power, she was only capable of in 1945. The Kirovs carried enough fuel oil to give them an endurance of at . Armament, protection and sensors The main battery of the Kirov class consisted of nine B-1-P guns in three triple-gun turrets, a superfiring pair forward of the superstructure and one aft. Unlike her earlier half-sisters built in European Russia, her secondary armament initially consisted of eight single 34-K anti-aircraft (AA) guns mounted on each side of the rear funnel because the B-34 guns originally intended to be used had run into production problems. The 34-K guns were a stop-gap until the Army 52-K AA gun could be mated with the mount of the 34-K and put into production as the 90-K. They replaced the 34-K guns in May 1943. Light AA guns initially consisted of six semi-automatic 21-K AA guns, ten fully automatic 70-K AA guns, and six machine guns, but were significantly increased during the war. By