Tashkent's failed domestic adaptation and the limits of design changes

Further ships were planned, but difficulty adapting the Italian design to Soviet construction practices prevented the intended continuation. The account gives an initial plan of eleven ships and later refers to three cancellations without reconciling the intervening numbers. The explanation offered centres on quality control, standardisation and adherence to specified dimensions. Italian design changes are contrasted as preserving the core capabilities and broad consistency of a class. The criticism of Soviet practice concerns changes that produced substantially different ships. Adapting a foreign design therefore required preserving what the ships were intended to do.