The Soviet names Kirov, Frunze, Kalinin, and Yuri Andropov were replaced after the collapse of the USSR. At the time described, the first two awaited disposal, Admiral Nakhimov remained in a long modernization, and Pyotr Velikiy served with the Northern Fleet. An intended fifth ship passed through several proposed revolutionary and naval names before cancellation in October 1990. Russian fleet support could not sustain all four completed ships, and the fifth never left the Soviet programme.
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Four Kirovs and their post-Soviet names
The four completed ships became Admiral Ushakov, Admiral Lazarev, Admiral Nakhimov, and Pyotr Velikiy, while a repeatedly renamed fifth hull disappeared with the Soviet program.