Thread:Mr Bang Bang/@comment-30076690-20181010015501/@comment-30076690-20181010155352

actually there was - it was a union

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Historical Info
Shchors (Щорс) is based off of the Project 28 light cruiser, an attempt by Russian designers to create a light escort cruiser that could protect larger ships from attacks by light enemy forces. Based upon a lengthened Kirov hull, she was equipped to be equipped with 152mm/57 guns over the 180mm/57 guns of her predecessor. This is due to a prioritization of fire rate over damage and to make the ship a light cruiser under the London Naval Treaty of 1936, which the USSR had been considering signing. Five ships were planned to built over a period of ten years; two were to go to the Northern flotilla and the other three were to go to the Baltic fleet. Development began in July 1936 and was headed by the Leningrad Design Institute. A preliminary draft was completed by June 1937, but the project was cancelled on October 1, 1937 in favor of the Project 68, which became the Chapayev class.

The ship was given the name Shchors by Wargaming in accordance with the Soviet tradition to name light cruisers after Bolshevik revolutionaries, the said person being Nikolai Shchors.

Historical Inaccuracies

 * No ship in the Soviet Navy has ever been named Shchors.