„Kronstadt“ – the USSR large anti-submarine hunter

In the first post-war year’s cutters of the MO-4 type ("small hunter") were replaced by other submarine hunters of new projects, which were intended to protect the water area (most often in the area of fleet bases). To update and improve the ships, more than 270 large hunters of projects 122-A and 122-bis were built. Project 122 itself was developed before the II World War (the first ships of this project began to be built in 1939), and the development of its modification 122-bis was started in 1944 at TsKB-51. The chief designer of this ship was N. G. Loshchinsky, then - N. Kh. Zhelyazkov, and after 1948 - A. V. Kunakhovich. The ship had a smooth-deck architecture with a superstructure in the middle. The construction of project 122-A anti-submarines was carried out using the flow-position method, which allowed one plant to hand over 25-30 ships to the fleet annually. The construction was carried out at the Shipyard them Gorky in Zelenodolsk, Shipyard workshop in Leningrad and Shipyard in Komsomolsk-on-Amur. The construction of the entire series of more than 270 units was completed by 1955. A significant part of them was transferred to friendly countries: 14 ships were transferred to Indonesia, 6 to Cuba, 6 to China; 4 ships were leased to Poland for 5 years in 1957 (received the names DS-45 "Zwinny", DS-46 "Zrecny", DS-47 "Wytrwaly", DS-48 "Grozny"), and later 6 ships were permanently transferred ; Albania - 4, Romania transferred 3 ships MPK-160 and MPK-162 transferred to Bulgaria. Due to their low speed, they were most often used in the 1960s to carry out sentinel service in raids. Currently, all ships of this project have been decommissioned.

A moderately complex, well-designed and well-detailed model for intermediate and advanced modelers. Antiquarian magazine.