OVERVIEW: The KOTLIN SAM class DDG is a steam-powered, AAW destroyer.

DETAILS:   The KOTLIN SAM DDG is based on the KOTLIN class DD.  Between 1962-72, nine units were modified to the KOTLIN SAM class by removing after gun and torpedo mount and replacing it with an SA-N-1 SAM system.  One unit was subsequently transferred to Poland.

NOTES: Displacement: 2,700 tons standard
       Speed: 38 knts
       Range: 1,000 nm @ 34 knts; 3,600 nm @ 18 knts
       Complement: 300 (approx.)
       In Commission: 1954 (KOTLIN class); 1962-1989 (KOTLIN SAM class)
       Completed: 9	  

SOURCES: Norman Polmar, "Guide to the Soviet Navy, 3rd ed. (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1983), 170-71 ; 
Federation of American Scientists. "Kotlin Class - Project 56." Accessed November 17, 2013. http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ship/row/rus/56.htm.