World War II Russian Imperial Navy.

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Training ship "Poltava."

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Shook the British public opinion four-days demonstration held in early May the U.S. Navy near Gibraltar, the British made urgently redeploy there with Malta Battlecruisers "Renown" and "Repulse."
And at night May 20th Italian command informed the British that the battle cruiser "Izmail" was torpedoed by an Italian submarine almost in the center of the Ionian Sea.
Received the news Commander in English compound "M" Admiral Snogden true calculated that the damaged battlecruiser try to go into the Aegean Sea keeping close to the Greek coast, and on the morning of the 21st withdrew its battleships "Revenge", "Royal Oak", "Malaya" and "Warspite" in the sea.
Daily transition to the Greek coast was successful, although the British and had to make a big detour to go around at a great distance Crete holding outside the Russian airplanes stationed there. At dawn on May 22, cruiser "Norfolk" and "Cumberland" found to move towards the gulf of Laconia 5-knots speed "Izmail", unfortunately for the British, surrounded by almost all available forces Russian Mediterranean fleet.
In the rear of the column Russian capitalships was ship initially adopted by the British for the resurrected "Emperor Nicholas I". But it was a training ship "Poltava", included in the Russian command of the second brigade of ships, guided by the principle: "better than nothing." The calculation was correct - nine twelve-inch guns of the degraded battleship added their contribution to the firepower of the squadron, weak as his reservation and the absence of the conning tower has not played a serious role as the English simply do not pay attention to it, concentrating fire "Revenge" and "Royal Oak " to "Pobeda" and "Malaya" and "Warspite" to "Bosporus". "Emperor Alexander III» and "Poltava" fired mainly "Malaya", only occasionally , during cornering , transferring it to "Warspite", "Pbeda" and "Bosporus" concentrated their fire on "Revenge" for half an hour forcing him get out of the fight, then took up the "Royal Oak." At each of opportunity to add their fire volleys of its three existing towers and crippled "Izmail."
Hour and a half after the battle, a few times out of combat and again trying to break through to the "Izmail" British finally realized that the outcome of the battle may not be in their favor. At noon Snogden ordered back to Alexandria.
"Izmail" was successfully presented in Piraeus, where, after the installation of temporary patches, left for the final repair in Sevastopol.

One of the points of the Treaty of London in 1930 was that on one of the output from building battleships each country intended for educational purposes it is necessary to carry out:
(1) Removal of main armament guns, revolving parts of all barbettes and turrets; machinery for operating turrets; but three turrets with their armament may be retained in each ship;
(2) Removal of all ammunition and explosives in excess of the quantity required for target practice training for the guns remaining on board;
(3) Removal of conning tower and the side armour belt between the foremost and aftermost barbettes;
(4) Removal or mutilation of all torpedo tubes;
(5) Removal or mutilation on board of all boilers in excess of the number required for a maximum speed of eighteen knots."
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In the summer of 1930 on the remaining part of the Russian Imperial Navy battleship "Poltava", a translation of the Black Sea, in accordance with the agreement signed in London dismantled nose turret of the main fire, both conning towers and main armor belt. In 1932, in Sebastopol, a modernization of the numbers is now a training ship "Poltava".
Unfortunately engineers of Nawal plant designed the project proved too ambitious, and therefore costly. As a result, instead of setting versus-torpedo bulls, two twin tower 203-mm guns and four twin is 152-mm, which were to replace casemate 120mm gun, confined to installation of new forecastle, replacing causing constant criticism "scoop" the bulwark and the new add-ins with located on them with modern fire control system. Suffered under the forecastle cabins and officers wardroom, as part of the feed was given to the classrooms.
In the third tower set to catapult seaplane-spotter during firing is placed on the roof of the aft superstructure, between the boats.
Anti-aircraft armament updated "Poltava" amounted 4x2 102-mm gun mount universal, 4x2 37-mm machine gun and two paired "Hotchkiss." Torpedoes were dismantled.
Were eliminated nasal boiler rooms, so that the "Poltava," there was only one chimney. According to the project's training ship had to reach speeds of 18 knots, but after the transfer of the remaining oil boilers formed a power reserve that increases speed up to 22 knots.
The upgrade was completed in the spring of 1933, after which the "Poltava" began firing artillery, driving training for the Navy gunners, and so active that in the winter of 1933-1934, the ship had to change liners guns of the main caliber. In January 1934, began returning to the place of plates main armor belt, which luckily did not have time to dispose of, which led to a decrease in the full speed of up to 21 knots. Immediately after these works "Poltava" and was included in the 2nd Brigade of the Mediterranean Fleet battleships.
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Aircraft carriers such as "Ne tron menya."

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Torpedo cutting board "London" in the area aft of the engine room, causing heavy cruiser to slow down dramatically. "Neptune" and "Orion" did not dare to pursue solo numerically superior enemy, and now the commander of the English squad, not hiding tears, watched the departing west Russian ships.

June 6, 1935 began probably the most daring operations of the Russian Imperial Navy during World War II. Through the Danish Straits into the Atlantic came detachment, consisting of an aircraft carrier, "Ne tron menya" and light cruisers "Voyevoda" and "Diana". Until about the fifth degrees west longitude detachment accompanied Battlecruisers "Borodino" and "Kinburn" with leaders "Almaz", "Opal" and "Saphire" on the way back proudly paraded past the main forces Home Fleet.
Going across the Atlantic squad had the task of passing through the Panama Canal to join the U.S. Pacific Fleet - a risky task, but in the conduct of active air reconnaissance quite feasible. As it turned out in the area, which moved through the detachment was a compound of the Royal Navy, led by the aircraft carrier "Furious", airplanes which soon began to attack the Russian ships. The most severe attack was made on June 9, when just twelve torpedo carrier British tried to attack, "Ne tron menya" from different directions simultaneously. Fortunately, duty triple I-7 fighters and managed to shoot down the first four torpedo attack and raised the alarm, nine more fighters completed the rout. The British lost eight torpedo carriers and all three were covering their fighter, however, the remaining four torpedo carriers back was already nowhere: there is a Russian detachment reflected the British attack, fifteen dive bombers PB-1 with "Ne tron menya," have hit five 1000-pound bombs in the deck "Furious."
Leaving the doomed aircraft carrier with a heavy cruiser "Frobisher", commander of the English detachment with three cruisers rushed in pursuit of the Russian ships, hoping to impose their artillery battle, but fell overboard in "London" Russian torpedo put an end to this attempt.
June 16 Russian squad safely reached New York, where a week later went to the Panama coast.

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Appearance in the program's two aircraft carriers 1929-1933 (one for the Mediterranean Fleet and the Siberian flotilla) is not caught unawares Russian designers. The accumulated experience of operating aircraft carriers "Pervenets" and "Admiral Nepenin" allowed to ship as soon as possible to design a limited under the terms of the Treaty of London tonnage calculated basing on 60 airplanes. Another 12 machines could be taken into overdrive unassembled (which allowed "Ne tron menya" compensate the lost in the Atlantic airplanes before moving to the Pacific).
While designers originally drafted carrier armed only universal artillery Marine Ministry insisted on strengthening arms eight 152-mm guns in the two-gun turrets , same type installed on the cruiser "Avrora". This caused mass displacement to starboard aircraft carrier, which had to compensate for the asymmetric arrangement of the flight deck, which had now greater overhang from the left side. Four two-gun 102-mm universal installation, previously located on the upper deck, were transferred to the side sponsons. Subsequently, these extended sponsons allowed without problems proved insufficient to strengthen anti-aircraft armament carriers, due to the installation of additional anti-aircraft machine guns.
USS new project received three lifts and one catapult takeoff airplanes with the standing ship.

"Ne tron menya" 1931-1933-1935 Baltic plant.
"Pamyat Merkuriya" 1932-1933-1935 ONZiV (Naval).

Laid down in Petrograd at the Baltic Shipyard head carrier planned to call "Emperor Nicholas II", but acts of mass protest in the State Duma was forced to change its name to the more neutral: "Ne tron menya" ("Do not touch me.")
"Ne tron menya," was put into operation in the spring of 1935, and after a course of military training went to the Pacific Ocean. During the same year in the Mediterranean fleet entered built in Nikolayev "Pamyat Merkuriya."

Air Group the new aircraft consisted of 15 reconnaissance torpedo carriers Tupolev RBT-2, 30 dive bombers Grigorovich PB-1 and 15 fighter Polikarpov I-7.

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Displacement: 18,200 tons (standard), 23,100 tons (full).
226.5 (224.5 on the deck) x23, 0 (32.0 deck) x6, 6 m.
Armament: 4x2 152-mm/55, 4x2 102-mm/55 , 4x2 37-mm , 6x13,2-mm.
Reservations: 76 mm belt, deck (above the citadel ) of 50 mm.
152000 hp - 33 knots.
 

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Torpedo boats "Udaloy" class.

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Breakthrough Russian ships in the United States finally the last straw of the British Government, which June 20, 1935 gave the long-awaited fleet order for the occupation of Norway.
The first transports troops disguised cruisers and destroyers Home Fleet entered the harbors of Bergen, Trondheim and Narvik at dawn on June 22. On the notes of protest, sent by the Norwegian government, the British paid even less attention than the weak resistance caught unawares Norwegian troops.
Occupation of Norway by British troops was seriously alarmed Russian command, because the British blockade of the Danish straits meant for battle cruisers "Borodino" and "Kinburn" there will be only one outlet in the North Sea, which is why they can be intercepted while returning Home Fleet.
On June 23 it was decided to provide all possible assistance to Norway in the reflection of British aggression, and began focusing Russian troops transportation to Germany to Kiel, where they were supposed to go to Oslo. Situation was complicated by the complete absence of the Baltic Fleet amphibious ships, construction of which began only at the Petrograd and Revel factories.
Meanwhile, the Norwegian government is not slow to accept the proposed Russian help. Moreover, on June 25 it announced that it would resist Russian invasion, not less strongly than English.
At dawn on June 27, the Russian transports with troops protected the ships of the Baltic Fleet, came to the entrance of the Oslo Fjord, where they were met by fire guns coastal defense battleships "Eidsvold" and "Norge". It was then, in the case and entered Russian torpedo boats of the "Udaloy" сдфыы. Torpedo attack on a Norwegian armadillos, made eight torpedo boats, was a complete success - both Norwegians were torpedoed and sunk soon. The only loss was the Russian torpedo boat "Ubeditelnyy."
In the future, small torpedo boat were the vanguard of the Russian forces moving through a narrow fjord in the Norwegian capital. Exposed the otter trawls seven "Udaloys" cloaked running track destroyers with their powerful 120mm artillery, took the brunt of the Norwegian coastal batteries overlapping approaches to Oslo. Under fire Norwegian guns sank "Uspeshnyy" and "Umelyy", and "Udaloy" received heavy damage, after which was never rebuilt.
However, the landing was successful in Oslo - Norway's capital was captured just a few hours. Unfortunately, Russian reinforcements body landed in Norway, and has not received - the second wave of transports was forced to turn back home after the appearance of the Norwegian coast of the main forces of the English fleet. Mostly Russian warships managed to escape in the Straits under the protection of their minefields, but landed in Norway troops were left to themselves, the strongest surviving the onslaught of English and switched to their side of the Norwegian troops.
August 21 is located in Oslo Russian forces surrendered. Captured by the British were almost 10 thousand people, they just got 11 tanks and 28 artillery pieces. Crews were detonated in Oslo remaining destroyer "Gogland", as well as torpedo boats "Udaloy" and "Ustoychivyy."
The same day, U.S. troops began landing in Iceland.

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Ongoing during 1914-1917 mine warfare in the Baltic Sea revealed the need of construction of small ships are a combination of artillery and torpedo ship, small mine layer and a high-speed minesweeper, more suitable for operation in the Straits Moonzund Archipelago than large, projected as a squadron of ships, "Noviks". Optimal in this attitude, according to the Ministry of the Navy, the ships would be similar in their performance characteristics to the destroyers of the "Dobrovolets", but with a larger, due to a steam turbine power plant, ground speed. Held in August at the 1917 competition, was presented five projects, with a displacement of 164 (Baltic Plant), up to 700 tons (Revel Russian-Baltic). Closest to the given conditions was a project Putilov to offer 600-tonn torpedo boat armed with two 102-mm guns and two twin-tube torpedo tubes, with 31 knots ground speed provided ISU consisting of four boilers and two steam turbine units. This project was accepted to the building with a small correction weapons - two pipe torpedoes replacement on triple tube and installation of two 37-mm anti-aircraft machine guns. However, had to abandon the proposed plant gear turbine units previously manufactured in Russia, because of fears delay the construction of torpedo boats, they were invited to introduce the second series of new torpedo boats. In turn, designers Putilov plant demanded a change in the previously proposed level layout on the ICE linear to compensate for the increased weight of the torpedo tubes and additional fuel. Despite this projected normal displacement destroyer was eventually 641 tones.
Already in October 1917, orders were issued to build new torpedo boats. Six of them went to a Metal factory, six Putilov shipyard, four Revel Russian-Baltic and two plant "Lange and son." Issued November of the same year orders for another 18 torpedo boats were canceled after end the Great War.
Eighteen included in the Baltic Fleet torpedo boats shown themselves to be extremely useful ships that bolstered confidence in the correctness of the decision of the Ministry of Maritime mass construction of such ships scheme 1934-1938 years.
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Normal displacement: 641 tons.
Speed: 31 knots, with power machines 13500 hp.
Armament: 2x1 102-mm/60 guns, 2x1 37-mm automatic, 2x3 450-mm torpedo.
Dimensions waterline: 70,8 x7,4x2,5 m.
 
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Light cruisers like "Griden."

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In August 1935, the British command, in connection with already experiencing difficulties with the supply of oil Metropolis, has decided to hold across the Mediterranean convoy of four large tankers, joined by seven transports carrying troops from India. In addition to light forces convoy covered cruiser "Norfolk", "Cumberland", "Exeter" and "York" from the Alexandria squadron. August 30 convoy came from Port Said, heading into the Ionian Sea, where it had to meet Italian ships.
On the morning of September 1 in Alexandria, the message was received from the submarine, "Rainbow", discovered the way out of the Aegean Sea through the Strait of Kythira at least five Russian cruisers. Alarmed by the British expelled the aid convoy cruisers "Hawkins" and "Leander", but it was too late . At noon, the convoy was attacked by Russian cruisers "Rossiya", "Ioann Groznyy" and "Griden" of the 1st Brigade, and "Varna", "Tsargrad" and "Sorokamysh" of the 2nd (cruisers "Varyag" and torpedoed August 11 the British submarine "Gromoboy" is being repaired).
Despite the numerical superiority of the enemy, the British took the fight, and eventually break through to protected their ships was only the heavy cruiser "Tsargrad", which was set on fire by tanker. Deciding that the task is completed, "Tsargrad" returned to the others cruisers leading the fight with the British. Nevertheless, the English sailors managed to extinguish the fire on the tanker, and the appearance on the horizon of the Italian cruisers "Zara", "Pola", "Fiume" and "Bolzano" forced Russian retreat.
Approximately three hours later extending to stop Russian cruisers collided nose to nose with the "Hawkins" and "Linder", which was essentially a pleasant surprise. The battle was short-lived - three times superior enemy resist British cruisers could not long.
"Hawkins" and "Leander" became the sixth and seventh cruisers British fleet lost in this war. By that time it killed "Effingham" and "Enterprise" sunk in the Atlantic by American cruisers "Salt Lake City" and "Pensacola", "Diomede" torpedoed in the North Sea Russian leaders, as well as the "Calypso" and "Coventry" sunk American submarines.
Fight in the Ionian Sea was the debut of a new generation of Russian light cruisers.

Pursues a continuous preparation for war with Britain, the Russian government continued to strengthen the Navy and especially its cruising forces. Designing a new light cruiser began immediately after the ratification of the Russian Treaty of London in 1930, violated the development plans already adopted by the Imperial Navy. Now the desire to obtain the maximum combat power cruisers were countered by prisoners in London agreement, according to which Russia could build only class A cruiser in a 152-mm artillery. As a result, to solve the problem it was decided to build a light cruiser built to withstand a fight with a heavy cruiser (Class A). Since most are at that time in the composition of foreign fleets heavy cruisers of the first generation was quite weak armor, found sufficient armament of 12 152-mm guns, had greater than 8 203 mm guns of British cruisers, fire performance, complemented by powerful enough reservations (127 mm). Requirement was to set up a second command-distance finding station, providing fire on two targets simultaneously, while fending off an attack destroyers. Antiaircraft weapons taken "appropriate type "Avrora".
Calculus need for new cruisers in 9 units (four for the Mediterranean and the three Baltic fleets, as well as two of the Siberian flotilla), calculated that in order to meet the quota received in London, their standard displacement shall not exceed 8605.5 t.
Based on these characteristics, and began work on creating a new generation of cruisers. It quickly became clear that meet the specified displacement is possible only with loads of austerity, which forced to abandon the originally anticipated echelon arrangement of engine and boiler room and reduce the thickness of the armor belt to 102 mm. And this despite the fact that the designers went for the projected reduction in the length of the cruiser, reducing its ratio of length to width!
Initially, the main designer of the new cruisers was Baltic plant, but due to the fact that all four of the originally proposed to be built cruisers were already "promised" ONZiV, Balts plant had to pass all the documentation ready to Nikolaev. Constructors ONZiV offered to reduce the power turbine unit with 84000 hp (project of the Baltic plant repeated on the location of the ICE class cruiser "Avrora"), up to 76,000, placing two similar steam-turbine plants available on the newly built cruiser "Gromoboy", instead of three. Together with the reduction in the number of boilers to four, instead of six, it reduces the length of the ICE, and, consequently, the citadel. This decision had to be very helpful, since March 1931, Marine Technical Committee warned designers about what armor belt thickness reduction of less than 120 mm "is not valid." However, to maintain that speed of 33 knots, had to carry out extensive research to improve the contours of the projected cruiser, identify, by the way, nonoptimality contours adopted as the prototype of "Avrora". As it turned out, the designers of the Baltic plant simply increasing with the underlying body type leader "Yakhont", made a number of distortions in order to facilitate placement of internal hardware.
Despite all the measures taken by the summer of 1931 a standard displacement cruiser designed exceeded 8800 tons, although it was agreed that the excess tonnage of 200 tons, compared to the official may go unnoticed. Soon, however, it became clear that the projected three-gun turrets Metal Works will be large, and therefore the weight compared to the originally adopted by designers. As a result, eduction of design speed the standard displacement cruiser rose again, eventually reaching 9000 tons. Using this fact designers ONZiV demanded reduction of design speed contractual.
Reducing the size of the ICE had negative consequences - the new cruiser pipes were placed too closely, which is not allowed to establish a new type of catapult, providing an opportunity for new takeoff seaplane reconnaissance KR-3, although the hangars were expanded under their dimensions. On top off the seaplane catapult now could only occur at a greater angle to the course of the cruiser.
Head cruiser, dubbed "Griden" was laid at the boathouse Russud in October 1931. ONZiV pledged to finish building all four cruisers ordered him in 1934.
Soon followed by a new addition to the shipbuilding program of 1929-1933, according to which three were booked cruisers of this type Revel Russian-Baltic Shipyard, as well as shipyards and Petersburg Putilov and Admiralty Shipyard, with the delivery of the first ship in 1934 and two in 1935. Head Baltic cruiser, "Voyevoda", was laid in December 1931.
In 1932, in the English directory «Jane's Fighting Ships» were published accurate data on the Russian cruisers under construction, including and standard displacement. Avoiding scandal, Russia had to accept a standard displacement "Gridens" equal to 9,000 tons.
Insufficient funding in 1933 slowed down the construction of cruisers, by the war is also not helped to accelerate the work. In the experience of the first months of the war in the construction cruisers was strengthened anti-aircraft armament installation of two additional twin 102-mm units on the forecastle and replacement feeding heavy machine guns on the same amount of 37-mm machine guns. Test "Griden" and "Voyevoda" began almost simultaneously in the early spring of 1935. At the end of the test adopted in the fleet "Voyevoda" went along with the aircraft carrier "Ne tron menya" and the cruiser "Diana" of the Pacific Ocean, where he joined the U.S. Navy. Until the end of 1935 Mediterranean Fleet was still two cruisers of this type.
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Displacement: 9,000 tons (standard), 11,200 tons (full).
Armament: 4x3 152-mm/55, 6x2 102-mm/55 guns, 8x2 37mm automatic, 2x2 13.2-mm machine guns, 2x3 533 mm torpedo.
Reservations: board 120 mm (76 mm at the bottom edge), a deck of 50 mm.
ICE Power: 76000 hp. Speed: 32.5 knots.
Dimensions (waterline): 173,4 x19,1x6,1 m.
Cruising range of 8,000 miles miles (15 kt).


1. "Griden" 1931-1933-(1935) ONZiV (Russud)
2. "Voyevoda" 1931-1932-(1935) Revel Russian-Baltic Shipyard
3. "Rynda" 1932-1933-(1935) ONZiV (Russud)
4. "Boyarin" 1932-1934-(1936) Putilov Shipyard
5. "Posadnik" 1932-(1934-1936) Admiralty Shipyard
6. "Vityaz" 1933-(1934-1935) ONZiV (Russud)
7. "Bogatyr" 1933-(1934-1936) ONZiV (Russud)
 

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Destroyers of the "Veskiy"-type.

Spartak revolution in Germany broke out September 3, 1935. Leftists do not repeat their mistakes committed in 1930 - now the first blow was struck by government agencies, including the Ministry of Defence and the Reichstag. Captured and Reichswehrs barracks, in which there were many secret members of the Spartacus League. All trying to resist butchered.
Among the dead in the Reichstag building was the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Revolutionary Party, Adolf Hitler. The very next day the chief of Staff of the SA, Ernst Röhm announced support his stormtroopers Spartacus. Although not all Brownshirts followed their leader, sided with the Reds was enough to finally break the resistance of the counter-revolutionaries. September 5 was declared part of the People's Government, led by elderly Karl Liebknecht. People's Minister of Foreign Affairs became Leon Trotsky, the Interior - Ernst Thälmann. Röhm got him long desired War Department.
One of the first concerns of the revolutionary government was beheading army - hundreds of Reichswehr officers were arrested in the first days of the uprising, the terror continued in the future, and, as the saturation of the People's secret police personnel, constantly increased.
September 6, People's Government of Germany declared the return under its jurisdiction "illegally" occupied Russian German territories: Kiel Canal Zone and East Prussia.
The Russian government has proposed of France to start a joint invasion to Germany, to restore order in the country, but the French government believes that the worse for the Germans, the better for France, refused, as one Russian forces for the occupation of Germany is clearly not enough. Implications of the decision of the French proved to be disastrous for the Russian army.
September 15, the Austrian Government, concerned about what is happening in the north- western border, without the consent of the Russian command of, start to withdraw its troops from the Italian front. Shut the breach Russian troops did not have time - September 17 began a general offensive Anglo-Italian’s troops in the direction of Verona and Bolzano then. Front was broken and as a result, under the threat of encirclement was all Milan grouping Russian army. Began to retreat Russian and Yugoslav troops from Genoa and Turin to Verona, quickly turned into a stampede.
October 2 enemy seized Verona, and the third went to the shore of Lake Garda, cutting off from the main force over 200,000 Russian and Yugoslav soldiers and officers. Only 20 thousand of them managed to get out of the environment of the lake to the north, about 10,000 were able to pass through the mountains to Switzerland, where they were interned. About 100,000 were forced to surrender.
Spartak players conducted agitation beginning to have an impact and are in Germany Russian soldiers and sailors. October 15, when information about the crash in Northern Italy has entered the public domain, there was a mutiny on the standing in Hamburg cruiser "Svetlana". Morning of October 16 cruiser raise a red flag out to sea, with the intention, as it became known, to reach Revel or Helsingfors, where the rebels hoped to raise a general insurrection. The same evening, a rebellious cruiser was discovered destroyers "Gromkiy" and "Gnevnyy". Head of the 1st Division V. Bakhmetiev offered the rebels to surrender, but in response to a point raised by "Gromkiy" signal from the "Svetlana" was opened artillery fire. Realizing that persuasion will get you nowhere, Bakhmetiev ordered his destroyers launch a torpedo attack. Targets achieved three torpedoes, which was more than enough - rebellious cruiser capsized and quickly banked up keel.
So the first ship sunk by Russian destroyers of the "Veskiy"-type, was a Russian, though rebellious cruiser.
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New restrictions on the Russian Imperial Fleet Treaty of London in 1930 broke all the development plans of the Russian type destroyer. Now, taking into account the previously built ships of this class, there were only 20,195 tons, which was supposed to build a new two divisions of destroyers. In November 1930 the Marine Ministry instructed to begin designing destroyer standard displacement of 1122 tons, armed with two twin 120 mm gun mounts and two five-funnel torpedo tubes.
Although initially the designers were full of optimism, hoping to facilitate housing through the use of electric welding and ICE through the use of mechanisms working on a pair of high parameters, it soon became clear that meet the specified displacement can not be under any circumstances. The need for a new project in a developed fire control systems and active underwater acoustics, as well as support mechanisms demanded an increase in the displacement of at least 150 t.
Fortunately, the spring of 1931 arrived, the decision states Marine General Staff new divisions for destroyers, according to which the number of destroyers in the division was reduced to six instead of the previous nine. Based on the new state, now could reduce the number of destroyers in the new program to 15 (nine for the Baltic and six to the Mediterranean Fleet) and, consequently, increase their standard displacement of up to 1346 t.
Reducing the number of guns of the main caliber designed destroyers was offset by an increase in the angles of fire, which forced to move closer to the bow gun mount stem and stern to lift the second on the bridge. Reducing the number of boilers to three allowed to do one chimney instead of two in the prototype, as which was adopted by the destroyer "Shalnoy."
Distribution of orders for new destroyers was not a surprise at knowledgeable people six destined for the Mediterranean Fleet destroyers got ONZiV, nine were divided between the Putilov shipyard and the Revel plant.
Fourteen destroyers of the "Veskiy"-type went into service before the war, the last, "Grozyashchiy", was commissioned Putilov shipyard July 5, 1934.
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Displacement: 1,348 tons (standard), 2030 tons (full). Speed: 37.5 knots.
Power machines 46000 hp.
Armament: 2x2 120-mm/55, 2x2 37-mm automatic, 2x2 13.2-mm machine guns, 2x5 533-mm torpedo apparatus.
Dimensions (waterline): 103x9.8x3,5 m.
 
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Kurt_Steiner said:
No submarines for the Russian Imperial Navy?

Otherwise, an excellent threaed.
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There are quite a few. Now finish the article about the failed campaign of one of them in the Indian Ocean. But in the real history of the Russian fleet at something went wrong with the submarines.

The last sentence I do not understand.:confused:
 

Hrvatskiwi

Zhdrastvetyeh Aley!

This looks like a really fascinating timeline, but the translations are a bit difficult. I need to get up-to-date on it, but if you would like, I can read your updates before you post them and edit them into perfect English. No-one expects you to have complete mastery of English. It is a difficult language, but I would be more than willing to help.
 

Aley

Kurt_Steiner said:
He got it!:D
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Here is the deal: in 1915 Russia was pleasant large program of construction of submarines, which began in late 1916, but prevented the February revolution. Planned to build 57 large submarines of the first stage, with almost half booked at the "Holland".
I would venture to suggest that if there was no revolution, all these boats have been built, and, therefore, would constitute most of the Russian submarine fleet by 1934. New submarines would be a little.
 

Aley

Hrvatskiwi said:
Zhdrastvetyeh Aley!

This looks like a really fascinating timeline, but the translations are a bit difficult. I need to get up-to-date on it, but if you would like, I can read your updates before you post them and edit them into perfect English. No-one expects you to have complete mastery of English. It is a difficult language, but I would be more than willing to help.
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Hello colleague. You read in Russian? If so, here texts:

http://samlib.ru/a/andreew_f_w/

I would be very grateful for proofreading. Now I try to translate into English the story "Insignias" (where the action takes place just in this universe), but the deal goes bad.
 

Hrvatskiwi

Aley said:
Hello colleague. You read in Russian? If so, here texts:

http://samlib.ru/a/andreew_f_w/

I would be very grateful for proofreading. Now I try to translate into English the story "Insignias" (where the action takes place just in this universe), but the deal goes bad.
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Unfortunately, I can't read Russian, but I can proof-read your translations to English to make sure they're easier to read.
 
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