Political ship names and Soviet naval namesakes

The class carried the names Slava, Admiral Flota Lobov, Marshal Ustinov, Varyag, Chervona Ukraina, and Ukraina at different points. Fleet Admiral Semyon Lobov had served in the Pacific, commanded escorts and destroyers, and later became a deputy chief of staff of the Soviet Navy. Dmitry Ustinov appears chiefly as a political and defense-administration figure despite his title as Marshal of the Soviet Union. These choices show how Soviet political memory shaped the public identity of ships whose operational purpose remained less distinctive.