The Project 58 Missile cruisers or Kynda class were the first Soviet missile cruisers and a considerable advance for the Soviet Navy. Their main role was anti-surface warfare using the SS-N-3b 'Shaddock' missile. The design proved top-heavy and was soon succeeded by the larger Kresta I, but the Kyndas stayed in service until the fall of the Soviet Union.
The main armament comprised two trainable quadruple SS-N-3 anti shipping missile mountings; one forward one aft. One set of reload missiles was carried (16 missiles in total). Defensive armament comprised a twin SA-N-1 missile launcher forward and two twin 76mm guns aft. Two RBU-6000 anti submarine rocket launchers and two triple 533mm torpedo tubes were also fitted. The ships were refitted in the early 1980s with four 30mm CIWS guns.
Machinery comprised high pressure steam turbines in a unit system with alternating boiler rooms and turbine rooms.
Electronics Fit comprised:
- Radar:
- MR-500 Kliver air search
- MR-302 Rubka surface search
- Don DonKay navigation
Sonar:
- GAS-372 Gerkules-2M hull mounted
Other systems:
- Zaliv ESM
- Krab ECM
- Uspekh-U aircraft communications
- Yatagan SA-N-1 fire control (Peel Group SA-N-1 Target Acquisition /Target Tracking/Missile Guidance (TA/TT/MG) array
- MR105 AK-726 fire control (Hawk Screech) Fire Control for 76mm Guns
- Binom P35 Progress fire control
| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Builders: | Zhdanov, Leningrad |
| Operators: |  Soviet Navy Russian Navy |
| Succeeded by: | Kresta I |
| In service: | 1962 - 2002 |
| Completed: | 4 |
| Laid up: | Admiral Golovko |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 4,400 tons standard, 5,500 tons full load |
| Length: | 141.7-141.9m |
| Beam: | 15.8m |
| Draught: | 5.3m |
| Propulsion: | 4 boilers 2 steam turbines 100,000 shp |
| Speed: | 34 knots |
| Range: | 3,610 miles (2000 nm at 34 knots, 7000 nm at 14.5 knots ?) |
| Complement: | 390 |
| Armament: | ASM: 2x4 SS-N-3b (8+8 missiles) SAM: 1 twin SA-N-1 'Goa' launcher (16 missiles) Guns: 2x2 76mm, 4x 30mm ASW: 2× RBU-6000 launchers Torpedoes: 2x3 533mm tubes |
| Aircraft carried: | None |
| Aviation facilities: | Helicopter platform |
