Moskva

Project 1164 Atlant, better known by NATO as the Slava class, was designed as a Soviet missile cruiser with heavy anti-ship firepower. Moskva was the lead ship and later the Russian Black Sea Fleet flagship. The class filled the gap between huge Kirov battlecruisers and smaller destroyers, carrying a large missile battery for fleet strike and air-defense roles.

The class is defined by its prominent deck-mounted anti-ship missile launchers, area air-defense missiles, guns, close-in weapons, sensors and helicopter facilities. Modernized ships replaced older P-500 missiles with P-1000 Vulkan. The design delivered major missile firepower but had aging survivability, sensor and damage-control limits in modern threat environments.

Moskva served in Russian regional operations, Mediterranean deployments and the 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Her sinking in April 2022 after Ukrainian anti-ship missile attack became one of the most consequential naval losses of the war, reducing Russian Black Sea air-defense and command presence. The class remains historically important as a late Soviet missile-cruiser concept.