Soviet cruiser \" Swerdlow\". Paper Model.14 + 4 page, 420x 297mm. Scale cca.1:200German construction drawings description.

TheSverdlov-class cruisers, Soviet designation Project 68bis, were the last conventionalcruisersbuilt for theSoviet Navy, in the 1950s. They were based on Italian pre-Second World War concepts and designs, but with deployment on the North Atlantic and Arctic sea routes as a potential role and represent an intelligent approach with a modest armament of conventional 6-inch triple turrets on a large seaworthy hull able to run fast in rough water and fight her armament in a seaway. The expectation was that they would be accompanied bybattlecruisers, but these were never completed or approved. By the mid 1950s the development ofUSNandRoyal Navyjet strike aircraft meant gun cruisers increasingly could only be used forgunfire supportand as command ships. Only 14 Sverdlovs were completed beforeNikita Khrushchevcalled a halt to the programme, with 2 hulls being scrapped on the slip and 4 more partially complete Sverdlovs launched in 1954, being scrapped in 1959. Conventional cruisers were considered obsolescent by all navies with the advent of theguided missile, although many dissenting Russian admirals and officers still considered a cruiser effective in overcast weather in the late 1950s\' before the age of the all-weather carrier strike aircraft. A total of 30 ships were planned. OnlyMikhail Kutuzovis preserved, inNovorossiysk.

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