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More than a year ago a 'New Products' article here stated that Zvezda was releasing a kit of the Soviet battleship and it was expected in early 2014. It was never released but may be coming for 2015.

The Battleship Marat has a complicated history. She began life as the Petropavlovsk and was the third of the four Gangut-class dreadnoughts, the first Russian class of dreadnoughts, built before World War I. She was named after the Russian victory over the British and the French in the Siege of Petropavlovsk in 1854. Years later, her crew joined the Kronstadt Rebellion of 1921 and she was renamed Marat after the rebellion was crushed.

She was rebuilt in 1928-31 and served in the Second World War (or The Great Patriotic War, if you prefer) and was sunk in shallow water in a harbor near Leningrad in September 1941 by German bombers. She was refloated several months later and became a stationary battery, providing gunfire support during the Siege of Leningrad. She was renamed Volkhov, after the nearby river, in 1950 and served as a stationary training ship until stricken in 1953 and broken up afterwards.

The kit was expected for 2014 to be in her WWII configuration. Now it's listed in the Zvezda 2015 catalog (Kit No 9052) and we'll be following up with more details on this kit as we get them.