Lazar Kaganovich was built on the Amur but depended on components from western Soviet factories. Propellers had to come from besieged Leningrad, shafts were rescued from Stalingrad, and even a dock collapse added delay. Towing the incomplete cruiser down the Amur to Vladivostok could not solve the missing-equipment problem at the Far Eastern yard. She therefore remained inactive during the 1945 invasion of Manchuria and had only a postwar training career. Her successive names also tracked the political fortunes and disgrace of the Kaganovich family before the ship's uncertain disposal.
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Lazar Kaganovich and a transcontinental supply chain
Far Eastern assembly depended on machinery from western factories disrupted by the German invasion, leaving the cruiser late and incomplete.