[clarification needed][5][irrelevant citation] The ships are designed to be armed with Kalibr or Oniks anti-ship cruise missiles and have an endurance of 15 days.

[2] The first two ships, Uragan ("hurricane", now Mytishchi) and Taifun ("typhoon", now Sovetsk), were laid down at the Pella Shipyard in Saint Petersburg on 24 December 2015.

[10] Three of the five ordered ships, Tsiklon ("cyclone"), Askold and Amur, previously planned to be built by the Zelenodolsk Shipyard, were later laid down at the Zalyv Shipbuilding yard in Kerch, Crimea.

[2] Ships of the class have a stealth shaped superstructure with an integrated mast carrying four phased array radar panels.

[23] For anti-missile defense, the first two ships carry a pair of AK-630M gun-based CIWS and were upgraded with the Tor-M2KM which is a modular variant of the Tor missile system.

Italics indicate estimates In November 2022, an arbitration court in Moscow held the first preliminary hearing for a lawsuit against Pella Shipyard of St Petersburg, in which the Russian Defence Ministry is seeking 1.4 billion Rubles (US$23.1 million) over allegations the company was "failing to fulfill supply contracts.