Soviet cruiser Admiral Fokin

Admiral Fokin (Russian: Адмирал Фокин) was the second ship of the Soviet Navy Project 58 Groznyy-class Guided Missile Cruisers (Ракетные крейсера проекта, RKR), also known as the Kynda Class.

Admiral Fokin was transferred to the Russian Navy after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, but was decommissioned on 30 June 1993 and scrapped.

[1] Power was provided by two 45,000 horsepower (34,000 kW) TV-12 steam turbines, fuelled by four KVN-95/64 boilers and driving two fixed pitch screws.

[2] The ship was designed for anti-ship warfare around two quadruple SM-70 P-35 launchers for sixteen 4K44 missiles (NATO reporting name SS-N-3 'Shaddock’).

Admiral Fokin sailed in 1965 from Severomorsk to Vladivostok to serve with the 175th Missile Ship Brigade in the Pacific Fleet.