The Soviet Baltic Fleet was the obvious threat, and the Finnish vessels were meant to deter the largest Soviet ships, such as the battleships Marat and Oktyabrskaya Revolutsiya, as well as the cruiser Kirov, from venturing too close to Finnish shores.
During the evacuation of the Soviet Navy from Tallinn to Kronstadt during Operation Barbarossa, Yakov Sverdlov was assigned as an escort to the flagship Kirov.
Soviet Union | Soviet Navy | Soviet Army | Communist Party of the Soviet Union | Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic | Soviet war in Afghanistan | Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union | Kirov | Toyota Land Cruiser | Soviet Union national football team | Soviet Air Forces | Kirov, Kirov Oblast | Post-Soviet states | Hero of the Soviet Union | dissolution of the Soviet Union | cruiser | Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic | Soviet occupation of Poland | Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic | Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic | Soviet invasion of Poland | Japanese cruiser Takao | Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic | Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic | 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt | Supreme Soviet | Sino-Soviet split | Kirov Oblast | Japanese cruiser Mogami | Japanese cruiser Maya |