'Fearsome') was the lead ship of the Soviet Navy Project 58 Groznyy-class guided missile cruisers (Ракетные крейсера проекта, RKR), also known as the Kynda class.

[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').

[4] The ship undertook the first successful deck landing and take off of the mid-course guidance derivative of the Kamov Ka-25 in 1966 and was transferred to the Black Sea Fleet on 5 October that year.

[3] The ship served globally, including visits to Varna, Bulgaria, in August 1967, Tartus, Syria, in 1968, Havana, Cuba, in June 1969, Fort-de-France, Martinique, in August 1969, Split, Yugoslavia, and Alexandria, Egypt, in 1972, Casablanca, Morocco, in April 1972, Marseille, France, in July 1973, Tobruk, Libya, in November 1985, Rostock, East Germany, in July 1987 and Szczecin, Poland, in July 1988.