Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Leningrad () ita ce jagorar jirgin ruwa na ajin ta na shugabannin jiragen ruwa shida da aka gina don Sojojin Ruwa na Soviet a cikin 1930s, ɗayan nau'ikan guda uku na Project 1. An kammala shi a 1936, an sanya jirgin zuwa Baltic Fleet kuma ya taka rawar gani a cikin Winter War da Finland a 1939-1940. Bayan fara Operation Barbarossa, mamayewar Jamus ta Tarayyar Soviet a watan Yunin 1941, "Leningrad" ya rufe ayyukan mines, ya sanya mines kanta, kuma ya ba da tallafin bindigogi na jirgin ruwa ga rukunin Soviet. Ta raka jiragen ruwa yayin kwashe Tallinn
, Estonia, a watan Agusta sannan kuma ya harbe sojojin Jamus a lokacin Siege na Leningrad. An ba da jirgin ne don kwashe sojojin Soviet daga sansanin su a Hanko, Finland, a watan Nuwamba, amma an lalata shi sosai ta hanyar ma'adinai a hanya kuma an tilasta masa komawa Leningrad don gyarawa. Bayan an kammala su, "Leningrad" ya ci gaba da harbe-harben Jamus kuma ya ci gaba da yin hakan har sai Leningrad-Novgorod Offensive ya kore su daga birnin a watan Janairun 1944.