Imperial Russian Destroyers: The Fidonisy (or Kerch class) destroyer were 20 planned ships (8 completed) in 1915, caught by the Russian Civil War. They had been authorized as early as 1914, based on Novik for the Black Sea Fleet by the Naval Ministry after a strengthening of the Ottoman Navy and approved by the Tsar … Read more
Russian Empire/Soviet Navy 1913-1954: Avtroil, Izyaslav, Prymyslav, Bryachislav*, Fedor Stratilat* The Izyaslav class were ordered under the “enhanced” shipbuilding program for 1913-1917, comprising thirty-six 35-knot destroyers for the Baltic Fleet. They became the most heavily armed and largest destroyers in the Russian Navy and were turned into flotilla leaders, although this was never official in … Read more
Russian Empire/Soviet Navy 1913-1941: 22 destroyers ordered, 8 completed. The Lt. Ilin and Gavriil class were destroyer flotilla leaders for the Baltic Sea Fleet, created for the Imperial Russian Navy in World War I. These were part of the Novik-type destroyers, and an incremental evolution, near sisters of the Orfey class destroyer but from different … Read more
Russian Empire/Soviet Navy 1910-1941 From 1910 the “Novik class” was a reaction to the results of the Russo-Japanese war, which caused a great train of reforms in the Navy, generating a new generation of large fleet destroyers. The Novik was a trailblazer leapfrogging current destroyer designs, made for “active minelaying” and protect lines of communications … Read more
Russian Empire/Soviet Navy 1910-1941 The next big tree for WW2 in 2026 is about Russian, then Soviet Destroyer, from 1910 and the Novik class up to the early cold war ships (Skoryy). Before even world war one for what Russia was concerned, the Russo-Japanese war caused a great train of reforms in the Navy and … Read more
