Battle for Leningrad: Light cruiser Maxim Gorky (Project 26 bis cruiser) in the Kronstadt city dock.
On June 23, 1941, covering mine settings, the Maxim Gorky light cruiser blew up on a mine near Tahkuna’s lighthouse, and lost its nasal tip. Nevertheless, the team managed to maintain the buoyancy of the ship and reach it to the port in Tallinn and then to Kronstadt. To carry out urgent restoration work was assigned to plant number 189. Instead of the planned three months, it took only 43 days to restore the Maxim Gorky light cruiser. And on August 24, 1941, Maxim Gorky light cruiser was already ready to carry out new combat missions.
Location: Kronstadt, USSR
Image Date: July 1941