from Leningrad after it had been surrounded by the Germans and her propeller shafts had to be transported from the Barrikady factory in Stalingrad in 1942 before it was destroyed by the Germans. The cruiser joined the Pacific Fleet on 31 December after completing her sea trials, and officially entered service exactly a month later when the Soviet naval jack was raised aboard her. Upon her entry into service, Kalinin became the flagship of the Detachment of Light Forces of the Pacific Fleet. She conducted combat training in Ussuri Bay, screened by minesweepers, subchasers, and torpedo boats, in addition to air cover provided by anti-submarine aircraft. She was ordered to prepare for transfer to the Soviet Northern Fleet together with the destroyer via the Northern Sea Route on 24 April 1943 due to the Soviet belief that the Northern Fleet was weaker than its German opponents. She was scheduled for departure on 25 June. During May, extensive preparations were made for the voyage at Shipyard No. 202, which included the installation of special propellers with removable blades and the strengthening of her hull to withstand ice pressure. After the transfer was canceled without explanation on 1 June, Kalinin was removed from drydock, although the alterations remained in place until May 1944. She was under repair during the Soviet invasion of Manchuria in 1945, not having been slated for inclusion in the operation. Kalinin was declared the best ship in the Pacific Fleet for her training performance during 1946, winning four prizes. The cruiser became part of the 5th Fleet between 17 January 1947 and 23 May 1953 when the Pacific Fleet was temporarily split. She went to sea in 1951 for gunnery testing under the flag of the 5th Fleet commander, Yury Panteleyev, with the commander-in-chief of the forces in the Far East, Marshal Rodion Malinovsky, and the Primorsky Military District commander, General Sergey Biryuzov observing the firing. Kalinin hosted Malinovsky, Nikita Khrushchev, Anastas Mikoyan, Nikolai Bulganin, and Admiral Nikolai Kuznetsov during their visit to the Pacific Fleet in October 1954 and demonstrated her main guns while they were aboard. She spent the post-war period on routine training missions until she was mothballed at Vladivostok on 7 May 1956. Kalinin was reactivated on 1 December 1957 before being disarmed and converted into a floating barracks on 6 February 1960, being renamed PKZ-21 on 14 March of that year. She was