Ships
| Project 26 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ship | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Commissioned | Fate |
| Kirov (Киров) | Ordzhonikidze Yard, Leningrad | 22 October 1935 | 30 November 1936 | 26 September 1938 | scrapped 22 February 1974 |
| Voroshilov (Ворошилов) | Marti South, Nikolayev | 15 October 1935 | 28 June 1937 | 20 June 1940 | scrapped 2 March 1973 |
| Project 26bis | |||||
| Maxim Gorky (Максим Горький) | Ordzhonikidze Yard, Leningrad | 20 December 1936 | 30 April 1938 | 12 December 1940 | scrapped 18 April 1959 |
| Molotov (Молотов), later renamed Slava (Слава Glory) | Marti South, Nikolayev | 14 January 1937 | 4 December 1939 | 14 June 1941 | scrapped 4 April 1972 |
| Project 26bis2 | |||||
| Kaganovich (Каганович), later renamed Lazar Kaganovich and later still Petropavlovsk (Петропавловск) | Amur Shipbuilding Plant, Komsomolsk-on-Amur | 12 August 1939 | 8 May 1942 | 31 December 1942 | scrapped 6 February 1960 |
| Kalinin (Калинин) | Amur Shipbuilding Plant, Komsomolsk-on-Amur | 26 August 1938 | 7 May 1944 | 6 December 1944 | scrapped 12 April 1963 |
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