Soviet cruiser Admiral Makarov (1970) (original) (raw)

Admiral Makarov (Russian: Адмирал Макаров) was a Project 1134A Berkut A (NATO reporting name Kresta II) class cruiser of the Soviet Navy and briefly of the Russian Navy. The fourth ship of her class, the ship served mostly during the Cold War, from 1972 to 1992. She served with the Northern Fleet for the duration of her career, often operating in the Atlantic and the Mediterranean in order to show the flag, and was refitted between 1983 and 1985. She was decommissioned in 1992 due to deteriorating conditions which reduced naval funding prevented from being addressed before being sold for scrap in 1994.