The Bajan class was the fourth class of armored cruisers of the Russian Navy and represented a considerable further development compared to the previous classes. The ships were no longer designed as trade disruptors but as naval reconnaissance aircraft. The design therefore deviated radically from those of the earlier armored cruisers and came from the Russian MTK (Morskoi Technitscheskij Komitet = Marine Technology Committee), which consisted of representatives of the Russian shipbuilding, weapons and engineering industries. The class had only about half the displacement of its predecessors, but almost the same armament and significantly higher speed. The construction contract for the first two ships - Bajan and Admiral Makarow - went to the French shipyard Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée in La Seyne-sur-Mer near Toulon . The last two ships, Pallada and Bajan , were built at the New Admiralty Shipyard in Saint Petersburg .
After the type ship Bajan was sunk in Port Arthur during the Russo-Japanese War and lifted by the Japanese, the ship's design was only slightly modified. The bayan , built as early as 1899–1900, was armored with Harvey nickel steel, while the sister ships built from 1905 were armored with the more modern Krupp cement steel , which reduced the armor thickness by about 20% due to the higher resistance.
fate
The bayan served in the Baltic fleet . Like her sister ship Admiral Makarow , she took part in the Gotland Raid on July 2, 1915 and was later involved in the Battle of Moon Sound on October 17, 1917 and in the ice march of the Baltic Fleet in April 1918. It was broken up in Szczecin in 1922.
