Why the early Soviet Northern Fleet struggled with large ships

Why did the Soviet Northern Fleet maintain its larger ships so poorly?

Its bases were built around destroyers and could barely support a cruiser, leaving battleships beyond the fleet's logistical capacity.

Most mature Soviet naval infrastructure was in the Baltic and Black Sea, with some capacity in the Pacific. The newer Northern Fleet was built around destroyer support. It could just manage a cruiser, but a battleship exceeded what its bases could sustain. Its later Cold War prominence should not be projected backward onto this earlier infrastructure.