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She was the prototype of a class of 52 destroyers built in Russia.
Built at the Plitilovskaya yard, St Petersburg for the Russian Navy.
She was built after a design made by the Vulkan werft in Stettin, Germany.
Laid down on 19 July 1910, (or 1 August 1910 other source).
07 July 1911 launched under the name NOVIK, she was the second vessel under that name by the Russian Navy.
Displacement 1.280 tons standard, 1.590 ton maximum, dim. 102.4 x 9.5 x 2.9m. (draught).
Powered by three steam turbines, 40.000 hp, speed 32 knots.
Range 1500 mile by 17 knots.
Armament 4 – 10.2cm., 8 – 45.7cm torpedo tubes. Carried 60 mines.
Crew 142.
Completed 04 September 1913.

She was fitted out with the first steam turbines, which used liquid fuel, and at that time the fastest warship in the world.
From 1919 till 1931 unserviceable, 1931 refitted and renamed YAKOV SVERDLOV.
She was a unit of the Russian fleet, which tried to escape when the German forces advanced in August 1941, out of the port of Rival for Kronstadt.
During the night of 28/29 August 1941 off Rival she ran in Juminda minefield, laid by the German minelayers COBRA, KÖNIGIN LUISE and KAISER and sank.

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Source: Warship International March 1971. Some web-sites.

The NOVIK destroyer was commissioned into the Russian Navy in 1913. She was the first Russian destroyer to be equipped with steam turbine engines and high-pressure boilers powered by liquid fuel only. NOVIK was in active service during World War I. She was renamed YAKOV SVERDLOV in 1926 and was blown up by a sea mine in 1941.

Source: Russian Post
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