The Cruiser Moskva

The work on the design of future long-range active anti-aircraft and anti-submarine ship as it was initially determined was conducted by the Leningrad CKB-17 in close cooperation with OKB-938 led by N. I. Kamov. The author of the ships design, which was given the number 1123 and the code Kondor, was A. S. Sawiczew, and from 1967 A. W. Marinich. The main task of the ship was to search and destroy American nuclear submarines carrying Polaris ballistic missiles in the Antarctic Ocean and Barents Sea.