Krasny Krym (Russian: Красный Крым – Red Crimea) was a light cruiser of the Soviet Navy.

While the ship was built by the Russo-Baltic Shipyard in Tallinn, Estonia, her four direct-drive turbines, and half the boilers, were ordered from AG Vulcan Stettinin Germany.

[1] When Svetlana was towed from Tallinn to St. Petersburg in November 1917 she was about 90% complete and the Soviets expected to commission her in 1919, but she was laid up incomplete due to the disruptions of the Russian Civil War.

[2] Initially based in the Baltic she was transferred to the Black Sea Fleet in 1929, arriving on 18 January 1930, together with the battleship Parizhskaya Kommuna.

[9] During the Kerch-Feodosiya Operation, Krasny Krym sailed into the harbor of Feodosiya on 29 December 1941 and disembarked reinforcements and provided gunfire support for Soviet troops already ashore.

Krasny Krym, two destroyers and a number of minesweepers transported the 9th Mountain Rifle Division from Batumi to Tuapse from 1–10 December 1942.

[14] On the night of 4 February 1943 the Soviets made a series of amphibious landings to the west of Novorossisk, behind German lines.

[15] The loss of three destroyers attempting to interdict the German evacuation of the Taman Bridgehead on 6 October 1943 caused Stalin to forbid the deployment of large naval units without his express permission and this meant the end of Krasny Krym's active participation in the war.