 Kirov ( Russian : <unk> ) was a Project 26 Kirov @-@ class cruiser of the Soviet Navy that served during the Winter War , World War II and into the Cold War . She attempted to bombard Finnish coast defense guns during action in the Winter War , but was driven off by a number of near misses that damaged her . She led the Evacuation of Tallinn at the end of August 1941 , before being blockaded in Leningrad where she could only provide gunfire support during the Siege of Leningrad . She bombarded Finnish positions during the Vyborg – Petrozavodsk Offensive in mid @-@ 1944 , but played no further part in the war . Kirov was reclassified as a training cruiser on 2 August 1961 and sold for scrap on 22 February 1974 . 
