Cruiser Stalingrad is beautiful and powerful,
and even more powerful than Moskva,
and simply legendary,
she also has the largest gun caliber among all cruisers in the game.
The 75th anniversary of the Battle of Stalingrad is coming soon,
and we couldn't let this landmark event pass us by…
There were only two ship models available,
and they were located in different museums.
So, from two models, we had to make one from 1951.
This is what our designers did.
All ship blueprints are in the still-classified archives,
so we had to work with unclassified documents.
There are mostly text documents,
and very few graphical documents, so we had to glean what we could.
I'm the person who creates a blueprint from the text documents.
The primary armament turret was recreated
using the scheme of transportation of the turrets to the shipbuilding site
and text documents where the technology of armor plate welding was described.
It was a postwar ship, and welding was already widely used at that time.
This made everything simpler for us, because riveting a 270-m long ship
isn’t exactly enjoyable for the modelers.
At first sight, you may think that the ship is empty.
But this isn’t the case,
because all equipment was hidden behind bulwarks and wind deflectors.
The ship was meant to be equipped with a radar station.
This was a long-range and fighter control station.
There was very little information about it,
so we had to create it almost from scratch.
The ship hull was also checked by calculations.
To make it clear, in addition to ship size,
we also needed to have the correct displacement.
In the first iteration, we had only a 400-ton deviation.
This means that we specified the hull parameters very precisely.
It was quite elongated in the bow part and flattened at the aft.
It might be said that it's quite a low ship.
Visually, it looks great.
Project 82 is legendary
because it's the last artillery ship that the USSR were building
and one of the last large artillery ships that were built worldwide at the time.
I liked working on Stalingrad very much,
because it will probably be the very top ship in our game available to players.
But not all players. Unfortunately, it won't be available to the developers.
Captains! The most dedicated and merited of you,
those who distinguish themselves in the Clan Battles season results,
will have the opportunity to earn cruiser Stalingrad and try it out in the game.
And all we can do is envy you!