Class overview
Operators	Imperial Russian Navy  Soviet Navy
Preceded by	Novik
Succeeded by	Fidonisy class
In commission	1913–1941
Completed	9
Lost	3
General characteristics
Type	Destroyer
Displacement	1,100 long tons (1,118 t) standard 1,320 long tons (1,341 t) full load
Length	98 m (321 ft 6 in)
Beam	9.3 m (30 ft 6 in)
Draught	3.2 m (10 ft 6 in)
Installed power	5 boilers 19,000 kW (25,500 hp)
Propulsion	2 shaft Brown Boverei turbines
Speed	34 knots (63 km/h; 39 mph)
Complement	125
Armament	3 × 102 mm (4.0 in) guns 2 × 47 mm (1.9 in) AA guns 4 × machine guns 10 × 457 mm (18 in) torpedo tubes, (5 × 2) 80 mines
Service record
Part of:	Black Sea Fleet

The Derzky or Bespokoiny-class destroyers was a class of destroyers built for the Imperial Russian Navy just before World War I. Nine ships were built for the Black Sea Fleet. These ships were a derivative of the Novik, but were slightly smaller. These ships were popular with the Russians and effective particularly in the Black Sea, where the Ottoman Navy had no similar ships.

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