The Slava class cruiser, Soviet designation Project 1164 Atlant, is a large conventionally-powered warship, currently operated by Russia

Russia

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Design

The design started in the late 1960s and was based around the P-500 Bazalt missile, as a less expensive, conventional alternative to the nuclear powered Kirov class battlecruiser

Kirov class battlecruiser

The Kirov-class battlecruiser is a class of nuclear-powered military ships of the Russian Navy, the largest and heaviest surface combatant warships currently in active operation in the world. The Russian designation is heavy nuclear-powered guided missile cruiser...

. There was a long delay in the programme, while the problems with this weapon were resolved. These ships acted as flagships for numerous task forces. All ships were built at the 61 Kommunar yard

Shipyard named after 61 Communards

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, in Mykolaiv

Mykolaiv

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, Ukraine (Nikolaev). The class was a follow up to the Kara class cruiser

Kara class cruiser

The Kara is a class of Cold War era Soviet guided missile cruisers. The Soviet designation is Project 1134B Berkut B - Беркут Б and the Soviet mission description is "large anti-submarine warfare ship" and not "cruiser".-Design:...

, constructed at the same shipyard and appears to be built on a stretched version of Kara hull.

The Slava class was initially designated BLACKCOM 1 (Black Sea Combatant 1) and then designated the Krasina class for a short period until Slava was observed at sea. The SS-N-12 launchers are fixed facing forward at around 8° elevation with no reloads available. As there was nothing revolutionary about the design of the class western observers felt they were created as a hedge against the failure of the more radical Kirov class. The helicopter hangar deck is located 1/2 deck below the landing pad with a ramp connecting the two.

Originally 10 ships were planned, but with the collapse of the Soviet Union only three vessels were completed, with a fourth one launched but never commissioned.

Today three ships serve in the Russian Navy, and the uncompleted vessel is owned by Ukraine. Plans for extensive upgrades to all ships of the class in the 2010s are in place. Efforts to upgrade and finish the incomplete ship in Ukraine for use by Russia are also coming to fruition.

Units

Original Ship Name	Renamed	Commissioned	Service	Status
Slava ("Glory")	Moskva RFS Moskva Moskva is the lead ship of the Project 1164 Atlant class of guided missile cruisers in the Russian Navy....  Москва ("Moscow")	Laid down 1976, launched 1979, commissioned 1982, renamed in 1995.	In service with the Black Sea Fleet Black Sea Fleet The Black Sea Fleet is a large operational-strategic sub-unit of the Russian Navy, operating in the Black Sea and the Mediterranean Sea since the late 18th century. It is based in various harbors of the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov.... .	Overhauled from 1991 to 1998. Was involved in the 2008 South Ossetia war 2008 South Ossetia war The 2008 South Ossetia War or Russo-Georgian War was an armed conflict in August 2008 between Georgia on one side, and Russia and separatist governments of South Ossetia and Abkhazia on the other.... . 3.Dec 2009 was laid up at floating dock PD-30 for scheduled interim overhaul. Back in service in 2010 with exercises scheduled in the Indian Ocean. Involved in Russia's Vostok 2010 Vostok 2010 Vostok 2010 was an large-scale Russian military exercise held in Siberia and the country's Far East from June 29 to July 8, 2010. The drill involved at least 20,000 troops, up to 70 warplanes and 30 warships. For the first time in Russia's modern history the military exercises involved the...  military drills in the Sea of Okhotsk in July 2010.
Fleet Admiral Lobov	Marshal Ustinov Маршал Устинов (named after Dmitriy Ustinov Dmitriy Ustinov Dmitriy Feodorovich Ustinov was Minister of Defense of the Soviet Union from 1976 until his death.-Early life:Dimitry Feodorovich Ustinov was born in a working-class family in Samara. During the civil war, when hunger became intolerable, his sick father went to Samarkand, leaving Dimitry as head... )	Laid down 1978, launched in 1982, commissioned in 1986.	In service with the Russian Navy, Northern Fleet Northern Fleet The Red Banner Northern Fleet is a unit of the Russian Navy that has access to the Barents and Norwegian Seas, the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans, and is responsible for the defense of northwestern Russia. It was established in 1937 as part of the Soviet Navy...	Laid up 1994-1996. Will be transferred to the Russian Pacific Fleet in 2012.
Chervona Ukrayina, ("Red Ukraine")	Varyag Russian cruiser Varyag (1983) Russian cruiser Varyag , , is the third ship of the Slava class of guided missile cruisers built for the Soviet Navy now serving the Russian Navy.- History :...  Варяг ("Varangian")	laid down 1979, launched 1983, commissioned 1989.	In service with the Russian Pacific Fleet.	Listed as under reduced manning since 2002. Operating with a caretaker crew at reduced readiness since arrival with Russian Pacific Fleet in 1990. Re-entered service in the Pacific Fleet in early 2008 after an overhaul.
Komsomolets, then Admiral Flota Lobov	Ukrayina Ukrainian cruiser Ukrayina The Ukrainian cruiser Ukrayina is a Slava class cruiser ordered by the Soviet Union in the early 1980s. The ship was laid down in 1983 and launched in 1990 just before the fall of the Soviet union. Because of budget constraints work on the cruiser stopped in the early 1990s and the ship was left...  ("Ukraine")	Laid down 1983, Launched 1990	Was never finished because of budget problems and was later passed to Ukraine.	Moored unfinished in Mykolaiv, Ukraine. In May 2010 Russia agreed to help complete the cruiser.
Oktyabrskaya Revolutsiya ("October Revolution")	Laid down 1988			cancelled and disassembled on the ways in 1990
Fleet Admiral of the Soviet Union Gorshkov	Lay down planned for 1990			cancelled in 1990
Varyag				cancelled in 1990
Sevastopol				cancelled in 1990

See also

• Slava
  Russian battleship Slava
  Slava was a pre-dreadnought battleship of the Imperial Russian Navy, the last of the five s. Commissioned too late to participate in the Battle of Tsushima during the Russo-Japanese War, she survived while all of her sister ships were either sunk during the battle or surrendered to the Imperial...
  
   a pre-dreadnought battleship of the Imperial Russian Navy, the last of the five Borodino-class battleships.
• Slava
  Soviet cruiser Molotov
  Molotov was a Project 26bis of the Soviet Navy that served during World War II and into the Cold War. She supported Soviet troops during the Siege of Sevastopol, the Kerch-Feodosiya Operation and the amphibious landings at Novorossiysk at the end of January 1943.The ship was extensively...
  
  , the name of the Molotov after 1957.

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