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As the ashes of World War 2 settled, the Soviet Union sought to cement itself as a Naval superpower. In 1948, it unveiled its maritime tour de force: the Sverdlov-class cruisers.
These cutting-edge warships emerged on the horizon, bristling with an arsenal to command the seas: twelve 152-millimeter B-38 guns thundered in unison, thirty-two 37-millimeter anti-aircraft guns swiveled to track the sky, and ten torpedo tubes lay in wait beneath the waves. Their 'Big Net' air search radars, eyes piercing through fog and storm, coupled with a sleek hull cutting through the water at a swift 33 knots, sent a clear message of challenge across the waters to NATO. In this display of might, they stood toe-to-toe with, if not shadowing, the greatest cruisers from the West.
The last of its kind, Murmansk carried the legacy of the Northern Fleet's dominance, casting a long shadow across the Norwegian Sea. For years, the Sverdlov-class cruisers patrolled the waters unchallenged, masters of their domain.
As the Soviet Union's echo dwindled into history, Murmansk faced an unparalleled challenge. Fierce and unforgiving, a relentless storm hurled it into the cold clutches of a Norwegian fjord where she was left grounded and forsaken. That was, however, until hints of a mysterious secret substance concealed within its hull began to leak out - one linked to the infamously deadly Russian Federal Security Service…