They were installed on seventeen battleships starting with Sissoi Veliky and Tri Sviatitelia and ending with the Andrei Pervozvanny class.

In the same 1891 the Naval Technical Committee ordered the Obukhov Works to design a new gun with improved range and firing rate, employing smokeless powder.

[4] In May 1892 the Navy issued a firm contract for the guns and turrets of Tri Sviatitelia, followed by Sissoi Veliky and the Petropavlovsk class in May 1893.

[6] At the beginning of World War I, the Imperial Navy ordered a second production run of the 12-inch 40-caliber model to replace the worn-out guns of the surviving pre-dreadnoughts.

[4] By the end of 1916 thirty new guns, produced at Obukhov Works and in England, were stockpiled in Saint Petersburg, Kronstadt and Sevastopol.