Slava c.1986
Class overview
Name:	Slava class
Builders:	61 Kommunara
Operators:	Soviet Navy Russian Navy
Preceded by:	Kara class
Succeeded by:	none
Building:	0
Planned:	10[1]
Completed:	3
Cancelled:	6
Active:	3
Laid up:	1 (construction incomplete)
General characteristics
Type:	Guided missile cruiser
Displacement:	9,800-10,000 tons standard 11,200-12,500 tons full load
Length:	186.4 m (611 ft 7 in)
Beam:	20.8 m (68 ft 3 in)
Draught:	8.4 m (27 ft 7 in)
Propulsion:	COGOG: 2 M70 cruise gas turbines, 2 cruise steam turbines, 2 exhaust gas boilers, 4 x M8KF Gas turbines, 2 Shafts, 130,000 shp (97,000 kW)
Speed:	32 kn (59 km/h; 37 mph)
Range:	3,000 nmi (3,450 mi) at 18 kn (33 km/h; 21 mph)
Complement:	485 (66 Off, 419 WO/Enl),[1] alternate information 476-529 (84 Off, 75 WO, 370 Enl)[2]
Sensors and processing systems:	Radar: MR-800 Voshkod/Top Pair 3-D long range air search, MR-700 Fregat/Top Steer (first two) or MR-710 Fregat-MA/Top Plate (second two) 3-D air search Sonar: MG-332 Tigan-2T/Bull Nose hull mounted LF, Platina/Horse Tail MF VDS Fire Control: Volna/Top Dome SA-N-6 SAM control, MPZ-301 Baza/Pop Group SA-N-4 SAM control, Argument/Front Door-C SSM control
Electronic warfare & decoys:	Kol'cho suite with Gurzhor-A&B/Side Globe intercept, MR-404/Rum Tub jammers, Bell Crown intercept, Bell Push intercept 2 PK-2 decoy RL, 12 PK-10 decoy RL (in last two units only)
Armament:	Missiles: 16 (8 x 2) P-500 Bazalt (SS-N-12 Sandbox) anti-ship missiles 64 (8 x 8) S-300F Fort (SA-N-6 Grumble) long-range surface-to-air missiles 40 (2 × 20) OSA-M (SA-N-4 Gecko) SR SAM Guns: 1 twin AK-130 130mm/L70 dual purpose guns 6 × 6 AK-630 close-in weapons systems Torpedoes and others: 2 × 12 RBU-6000 anti-submarine mortars 10 (2 x 5) 533mm torpedo tubes
Armor:	Splinter plating
Aircraft carried:	1 Kamov Ka-25 or Kamov Ka-27Helicopter

The design started in the late 1960s, based around use of the P-500 Bazalt missile, and was intended as a less expensive conventionally powered alternative to the nuclear-powered Kirov-class battlecruisers. Moskva is armed with P-1000 Vulkan AShM missiles, developed in the late 1970s to late 1980s. It is not known which Slava-class cruisers carry P-1000s other than Moskva. There was a long delay in this programme, while the problems with the Bazalt were resolved. These ships acted as flagships for numerous task forces. All ships were built at the 61 Kommunar yard, in Mykolaiv (Nikolaev), Ukrainian SSR. The class was a follow up to the Kara-class cruiser which the Soviet Navy typed as a Large Anti-submarine Ship (Russ. BPK), constructed at the same shipyard and appears to be built on a stretched version of the Kara-class hull.^[3]

The Slava class was initially designated BLACKCOM 1 (Black Sea Combatant 1) and then designated the Krasina class for a short period until Slava was observed at sea. The SS-N-12 launchers are fixed facing forward at around 8° elevation with no reloads available. As there was nothing revolutionary about the design of the class western observers felt they were created as a hedge against the failure of the more radical Kirov class.^[4] The helicopter hangar deck is located 1/2 deck below the landing pad with a ramp connecting the two.^[5]

Originally 10 ships were planned, but with the collapse of the Soviet Union only three were completed. A fourth vessel was launched, but final construction remains incomplete and the ship has not been commissioned into service.

Following the collapse and the re-emergence of the nation of Russia, the three finished ships serve in the Russian Navy and the uncompleted fourth vessel, renamed Ukrayina, is owned by Ukraine. Efforts have been made to complete and update the unfinished ship; in 2010, Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych stated that Russia and Ukraine would work together on the project. Russia has also expressed interest in purchasing the vessel, which Ukraine had previously offered for sale. However, as of early 2011 no final agreement has been concluded between the two countries, on this matter.^[6] The Russian navy has plans for extensive upgrades of all their Slava-class vessels during the 2010s; completing work on Ukrayina may serve as a test-bed for this. As of mid-2016 the fourth hull remains afloat in the shipyard uncompleted.