The Cruiser Moskva

The work on the design of future long—range active antiaircraft and antisubmarine ship – as it was initially determined – was conducted by the Leningrad CKB—17 in close cooperation with OKB—938 led by N.I. Kamov. The author of the ship’s design, which was given the number 1123 and the code “Kondor”, was A.S. Sawiczew, and from 1967 – A.W. Marinich. The main task of the ship was to search and destroy American nuclear submarines carrying “Polaris” ballistic missiles in the Antarctic Ocean and...