Esmintsy tipa " Novik " - Chernyshev Aleksandr Alekseevich

On August 29 (September 11) 1913, the Russian navy was replenished with another ship. It was not a battleship or a cruiser, only a destroyer entered service, but its name - "Novik" - thundered louder than the names of some battleships and cruisers.
Due to its appearance of the tragedy of the Russo-Japanese War, the "novik" was created taking into account its experience on the instructions of the "Special Committee to strengthen the navy on voluntary donations" which did not suffer petty "economy" and ordered ships, far away Ahead of their time - to the indicators of the Russian destroyer other great powers were able to approach only in the years of the First World War, when its serial heirs were already in service.
In 1915, Novik proved its superiority by fleeing two German large destroyers and driving one of them into a minefield. His "brothers" actively fought in the Baltic and the Black Sea, and after the revolution became the core of the resurgent Soviet fleet.
Despite his advanced age, Novik-class destroyers passed the entire Great Patriotic War and remained in service for more than a third of a century.