Kiev-class destroyer

The Kiev-class destroyer was an unbuilt development of the destroyer leader.

Background and design
Originally three more Tashkents were ordered to be built in the Soviet Union, but it proved to be too difficult to marry the Italian design with Soviet shipbuilding practices and they were cancelled. Instead, the Soviets developed a smaller design of the Kiev class (Project 48), that combined features of the Leningrad (Project 38), Tashkent (Project 20) and Ognevoy (Project 30) ships. Ten ships were to be built, of which four were laid down. The start of World War II meant that none were completed. The ships of the class were named after cities in the Soviet Union.

Ships
Ten ships were ordered from Soviet yards in 1939 as the Project 48 destroyer leaders. This design was different and smaller, merging features of classes Leningrad (Project 38), Tashkent (Project 20) and newly-designed Ognevoy (Project 30). They had 2350 tons of standard displacement, length 127.8 and beam 11.7 m