The "Petropavlovsk" ( _ru. Петропавловск) was a Russian battleship of the "Gangut" class. She was later renamed the "Marat".
The "Petropavlovsk" was built by the Baltic Shipyard, in St.Petersburg. Her keel was laid down in 1909, and she was launched in November 1911. The battleship was completed in December, 1914. She was originally named after the Siege of Petropavlovsk of the Crimean war.
Stepan Petrichenko served as an engineer on the ship and led the anarcho-syndicalist Soviet Republic of Naissaar (1918), and the anti-Bolshevik Kronstadt rebellion (1921).
Renamed the "Marat" after the French revolutionary leader Jean-Paul Marat in 1921, the ship served in the Soviet Baltic Fleet during World War II Siege of Leningrad. She was sunk at her moorings by German Stuka pilot Hans-Ulrich Rudel on 23 September 1941 during an air attack on Kronstadt harbor in the Leningrad area. Rudel managed a direct hit to the bow with a 1,000 kg bomb. Even so, the wrecked "Marat" continued in action as a floating battery for the remainder of the siege.
The "Marat" was raised in 1950 and renamed as the training ship "Volkhov" until finally being scrapped in 1952.
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