 After the end of the war , Nürnberg was seized by the Royal Navy and ultimately awarded to the Soviet Union as war reparations . In December 1945 , a Soviet crew took over the ship , and the following month took her to Tallinn , where she was renamed Admiral Makarov . She served in the Soviet Navy , first in the 8th Fleet , then as a training cruiser based in Kronstadt . Her ultimate fate is unclear , but by 1960 , she had been broken up for scrap . Nürnberg was the second @-@ largest warship of the Kriegsmarine to survive the war intact , after the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen , and she was the only vessel to see service after the war , albeit in a foreign navy . 
