The destroyer Spravedlivyy was constructed in the Severniy
Sudostroitelniy Zavod imeni A.A. Zhdanova (Shipyard No. 190) in
1954-1956 as one of 27 Project 56 destroyers, also known as the
Spokoinyy class (designated Kotlin by NATO). They were destroyers in the
old fashion, created in the early 1950s by designers of the 53rd Central
Design Bureau (CKB-53) led by head designer A.L. Fisher, who was also
the author of Project 30bis (NATO: Skoryy-class).