Soviet destroyer Tbilisi

Unknown Leningrad-class destroyer in Leningrad, June 1944
History
Soviet Union
Name	Tbilisi
Namesake	Tbilisi
Ordered	2nd Five-Year Plan
Builder	Shipyard No. 199, Komsomolsk-on-Amur
Laid down	15 January 1935 as Tiflis
Launched	24 July 1939
Commissioned	11 December 1940
Renamed	Tbilisi, 24 July 1939
Reclassified	As target ship, 18 April 1958
Stricken	31 January 1964
Fate	Scrapped, 1964
General characteristics (as built)
Class and type	Leningrad-class destroyer leader
Displacement	2,350 long tons (2,390 t) (standard)
Length	127.5 m (418 ft 4 in) (o/a)
Beam	11.7 m (38 ft 5 in)
Draft	4.06 m (13 ft 4 in)
Installed power	3 three-drum boilers 66,000 shp (49,000 kW)
Propulsion	3 shafts; 3 geared steam turbines
Speed	40 knots (74 km/h; 46 mph)
Range	2,100 nmi (3,900 km; 2,400 mi) at 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph)
Complement	250 (311 wartime)
Sensors and processing systems	Arktur hydrophones
Armament	5 × single 130 mm (5.1 in) guns 3 × single 76.2 mm (3 in) AA guns 2 × single 45 mm (1.8 in) AA guns 2 × quadruple 533 mm (21 in) torpedo tubes 68–115 mines 52 depth charges

Tbilisi (Russian: Тбилиси) was one of six Leningrad-class destroyer leaders built for the Soviet Navy during the 1930s, one of the three Project 38 variants. Completed in 1940, the ship was assigned to the Pacific Fleet, with which she spent World War II. Tbilisi laid minefields outside Vladivostok early in the war and during the Soviet–Japanese War transported naval infantry in preparation for an amphibious landing in Korea. Postwar, she continued to serve with the Pacific Fleet and began a lengthy overhaul in 1951 that lasted until 1955. Converted into a target ship in 1958, she was finally struck from the Navy List in 1964 and scrapped.