Russian torpedo cruiser designed at Warnemünde, Germany according to a CIA report dated 26 April 1948

An item reported that the Technisch-Wissenschaftlichen Bureau, Warnemünde, East Germany designed a torpedo cruiser which was to be built by the shipyards and of which just one fixed type was to exist. The projected shipyard had to build 25 ships in a year and to which 3 or 4 more shipyards were to be added 1 near Kerch, Black Sea coastline, one along the Baltic Sea coastline, 1 along the Arctic coastline and 1 in the Far East. Head of the bureau was the Russian lieutenant colonel Grigoriyev. The departments responsible for the production of machines and engines were managed by engineer Heine, who earlier worked at the Schichau shipyard at Elbing, Germany [nowadays Elblag, Poland].

The torpedo cruiser with a displacement of 3.000-3.500 tons was similar to the ones serving in the French and Italian navies. The main armament consisted of 2x2-5cm guns (fore and aft) and torpedo tubes. Fitted out with 2 turbines machinery for which the steam was delivered by two separate boiler departments each with 2 high pressure 70 atmosphere Wegner boilers (each 49th 4 centrifugal burners and a fuel consumption of 8 tons/hour) delivering 2x50.000hp [at 370 rpm] driving two screws making a speed of 40 knots possible. Length of the ship around 128 metres or 420 feet.

Source
The report was published on www.archive.org, document number CIA-RDP82-CIA-RDP82-00457R001200160004-0