At least five ships in the
Imperial Russian
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,
Soviet
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or
Russian Navies have been named ''Varyag'' after the
Varangian people, the Viking ancestors of the Rus.
* - A steam
corvette
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scrapped in 1886.
* - A
protected cruiser
Protected cruisers, a type of naval cruiser of the late-19th century, gained their description because an armoured deck offered protection for vital machine-spaces from fragments caused by shells exploding above them. Protected cruisers re ...
launched in 1899, commissioned into the
Imperial Russian Navy
The Imperial Russian Navy () operated as the navy of the Russian Tsardom and later the Russian Empire from 1696 to 1917. Formally established in 1696, it lasted until dissolved in the wake of the February Revolution of 1917. It developed from a ...
in 1901, scuttled in 1904, repaired by the Japanese and relaunched as , returned to the Russians in 1916, seized by the British during overhaul in 1917, sold to Germany and run aground in 1920, and sank in 1925. She is most noted for her heroic attack during the
Battle of Chemulpo Bay
The Battle of Chemulpo Bay was a naval battle in the Russo-Japanese War (1904–1905), which took place on 9 February 1904, off the coast of present-day Incheon (then called Chemulpo), Korea.
Background
The opening stage of the Russo-Japanese ...
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* - A missile cruiser completed in 1965, and decommissioned in 1990.
* - An heavy aircraft carrying cruiser launched by the Soviet Navy in 1988, transferred incomplete to Ukraine in 1992, and sold to China in 1998, where she was finished and commissioned into the Chinese
People's Liberation Army Navy
The People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN; ), also known as the People's Navy, Chinese Navy, or PLA Navy, is the maritime service branch of the People's Liberation Army.
The PLAN traces its lineage to naval units fighting during the Chinese ...
as in 2012.
* - A missile cruiser launched in 1983 as ''Chervona Ukrayina'', completed in 1989, renamed ''Varyag'' and operating in the Pacific since 1990. Flagship of the
Pacific Fleet
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Russian Navy ship names