"Parizhskaya Kommuna" - the Russian and USSR battleship

"Parizhskaya Kommuna" is the flagship of the four "dreadnought"-type Russia liners of the "Sevastopol" class, which were the newest of the Russian Empire. The ship's keel was laid in the Baltic Shipyard in June 3 1909, launched in June 16 1911, began service in 1914. at the end of December. After participating in the Kronstadt Uprising in 1921, in March it was renamed the "Parizhskaya Kommuna", or, as the sailors called it, the "Parisian". The old name was returned to the ship on May 31, 1943. During the First World War, he went to sea several times, patrolling the central mine position and covering the mine barriers, located in the Irben Strait. There were no clashes with the enemy. After the Russian Civil War, he visited Kiel as part of a escadrt of ships, after this trip in 1929. was transferred to the Black Sea. Major repairs and modernization were carried out in 1930-1938. Since the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, "Parizhskaya Kommuna" was based in Sevastopol. At first, the battleship repelled only relatively rare air attacks, but after the enemy captured the Crimean airfields, it was transferred to Poti. Later, "Parizhskaya Kommuna" transported reinforcements to the Crimea and shelled the positions of the German army. In total, during the war, the battleship covered 7,700 nautical miles, fired 1,159 main-caliber shells and 1,169 mine-caliber shells. After the end of the war, "Parizhskaya Kommuna", more precisely, renamed again to "Sevastopol", was the flagship of the Black Sea Fleet until July 24 1954 and later became a training ship. In 1956 was deleted from the USSR Navy and transferred to the Property Fund Department. In 1956-1957 it was dismantled at the Sevastopol base "Glavvtorchermet" and handed over for scrap metal.

A large, well designed and richly detailed complex model of a large ship, intended for intermediate to advanced modellers only. Where necessary, double-sided printing is used, screws and some other details are printed with metallic bronze paint, there is a solid color reserve, the graphic instruction is large, informative and perfectly readable - from traditional drawn 3D drawings, the textual instruction is quite large and perfectly complements the graphic instruction - in Russian, English, Polish and German languages.