 The crew of the Sevastopol joined the Kronstadt Rebellion of March 1921 . She returned fire when the Bolsheviks began to bombard Kronstadt Island and was hit by three 12 @-@ inch shells that killed or wounded 102 sailors . After the rebellion was bloodily crushed , she was renamed Parizhskaya Kommuna after the Paris Commune on 31 March 1921 . She was refitted several times before she was recommissioned on 17 September 1925 . She was refitted again in 1928 at the Baltic Shipyard , in preparation for her transfer to the Black Sea Fleet . Her forward funnel was raised and the upper part was angled aft in an attempt to keep the exhaust gases out of the control and gunnery spaces , while three 3 @-@ inch ' Lender ' AA guns were added to the roofs of the fore and aft turrets . She received some additional rangefinders and she was given a false bow to improve her sea @-@ keeping ability . She sailed for the Black Sea on 22 November 1929 , in company of the cruiser Profintern , encountering a bad storm in the Bay of Biscay . The open @-@ topped bow lacked enough drainage and tended to trap a lot of water which badly damaged both the false bow and the supporting structure . Parizhskaya Kommuna was forced to put into Brest for repairs , which included the removal of the bulwark that retained so much water . Both ships arrived at Sevastopol on 18 January 1930 and Parizhskaya Kommuna became the flagship of the Black Sea Fleet . 
