Ship Gun from the Cruiser "Kirov"

The cruiser Kirov was the flagship of the Baltic Fleet in the late 1930s and was built for the Soviet Navy. A series of 6 were built under Project 26. The ship was launched on November 30, 1936. The 100 mm naval gun model 1940 (B-34) was installed on the Kirov.
The Kirov served during the Winter War, World War II, and into the Cold War. She attempted to bombard Finnish coastal defense guns during actions in the Winter War, but was driven off by a number of near misses that damaged her. She led the evacuation of Tallinn in late August 1941, before being blockaded in Leningrad, where she could only provide gunfire support during the Siege of Leningrad. She bombed Finnish positions during the Vyborg-Petrozavodsk offensive in mid-1944, but played no further role in the war. Kirov was reclassified as a training cruiser on 2 August 1961 and sold for scrap and broken up on 22 February 1974.

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