Qualla: Soviet Destroyer Retivy https://qualla.com/soviet-destroyer-retivy en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:38 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Soviet Destroyer Retivy https://qualla.com/soviet-destroyer-retivy Soviet Destroyer Retivy: Introduction https://qualla.com/soviet-destroyer-retivy/ Her keel was laid in Ukraine. Her hull was assembled in Siberia. She served fifty years in the Soviet Pacific Fleet. And now she rests as a museum ship in a Chinese bay, thousands of miles from either of her birthplaces. The destroyer Retivy belongs to a class of warship that embodies Soviet ambition and its limits: the Gnevny class, Project 7 destroyers designed with Italian expertise, built in haste, and overloaded from the day they launched.

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/w/y/t/soviet-destroyer-retivy-wp/wwyt-soviet-destroyer-retivy-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Soviet Destroyer Retivy: An Italian Blueprint, Soviet Scale https://qualla.com/soviet-destroyer-retivy/ The Gnevny-class destroyers began as a compromise. The Soviet Navy wanted fast, cheap escorts to complement its expensive destroyer leaders, so it turned to Italy and licensed plans for an existing design. Soviet engineers then modified the blueprints to suit their needs, and in ...

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/w/y/t/soviet-destroyer-retivy-wp/wwyt-soviet-destroyer-retivy-an-italian-blueprint-soviet-scale.mp3 0:06 2 full Soviet Destroyer Retivy: Across the Continent by Rail https://qualla.com/soviet-destroyer-retivy/ Retivy's construction history reads like a logistics exercise spanning the full width of the Soviet Union. Major components were laid down at Shipyard No. 198, the Andre Marti South yard in Nikolayev (now Mykolaiv, Ukraine), on 23 August 1936. Those components were then loaded on...

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/w/y/t/soviet-destroyer-retivy-wp/wwyt-soviet-destroyer-retivy-across-the-continent-by-rail.mp3 0:06 3 full Soviet Destroyer Retivy: Teeth and Ears https://qualla.com/soviet-destroyer-retivy/ The Gnevny class packed considerable firepower for their size. Four 130mm B-13 guns in superfiring mounts fore and aft provided main battery punch. Anti-aircraft defense included two 76.2mm 34-K guns, two 45mm 21-K guns, and two 12.7mm DShK machine guns. Six torpedo tubes in two ...

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/w/y/t/soviet-destroyer-retivy-wp/wwyt-soviet-destroyer-retivy-teeth-and-ears.mp3 0:06 4 full Soviet Destroyer Retivy: From Cold War to Museum https://qualla.com/soviet-destroyer-retivy/ Assigned to the Soviet Pacific Fleet upon commissioning, Retivy served through the entirety of the Cold War. She was not decommissioned until September 1991, the same year the Soviet Union itself dissolved. Her fifty-year career spanned the period from the darkest days of World W...

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