The Krim-class ocean liners consisted of six ships built during the late 1920s for service in the Black Sea.
In 1928 the Sovtorgflot (Soviet Commercial Fleet) ordered two ships from the Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft shipyard in Kiel, Germany and procured a license to build four more at the Baltic Works in Leningrad.
The latter ships were virtually identical with their half-sisters, but differed slightly in some respects.
[1] Krim and Gruziya had a pair of six-cylinder, two-stroke diesel engines, each driving a screw propeller, and the engines were rated at a total of 1,163 nominal horsepower.
[4] After completion, they were assigned to the Black Sea State Shipping Company with their port of registry at Odessa.