二次世界大戰資料庫 (WW2DB)

Contributor: C. Peter Chen

ww2dbaseKaganovich was laid down in 1938 and was commissioned in Vladivostok in the Russian Far East. However, she was not fully completed until 29 Jan 1947, thus missing all WW2 action. She was named for Joseph Stalin's associate Lazar Kaganovich; in 1945, Lazar's brother Mikhail was accused of associating with Stalin's political opponents and committed suicide to avoid persecution, thus the ship was renamed Lazar Kaganovich to distinguish her from Mikhail. In the late 1940s and most of 1950s, she performed training missions. On 3 Aug 1957, she was renamed once more, this time to Petropavlovsk, as Lazar Kaganovich was purged from the government after a unsuccessful coup against Nikita Khrushchev. On 19 Sep 1957, her exterior was badly damaged by a Force 12 typhoon, though her hull remained in tact, and she was able to sail back under her own power. She was sold for scrap in 1960.

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Kaganovich Operational Timeline