The Sevastopol-class battleships, also known as the "Gangut class" in western publications, were the first dreadnoughts begun for the Imperial Russian Navy before World War I. They had a convoluted design history involving several British companies, evolving requirements, an international design competition, and foreign protests. Four ships were ordered in 1909, Gangut, Poltava, Petropavlovsk, and Sevastopol. Construction was delayed by financing problems until the Duma formally authorized the ships in 1911. They were delivered from December 1914 through January 1915, although they still needed work on the gun turrets and fire-control systems until mid-1915. Their role was to defend the mouth of the Gulf of Finland against the Germans, who never tried to enter, so the ships spent their time training and providing cover for minelaying operations. Their crews participated in the general mutiny of the Baltic Fleet after the February Revolution in 1917, and joined the Bolsheviks the following year.
The Ganguts were 180 meters (590 ft) long at the waterline and 181.2 meters (594 ft 6 in) long overall. They had a beam of 26.9 meters (88 ft) and a draft of 8.99 meters (29 ft 6 in), 49 centimeters (1 ft 7 in) more than designed. They were overweight and their displacement was 24,800 metric tons (24,400 long tons) at load, over 1,500 t (1,500 long tons) more than their designed displacement of 23,288 metric tons (22,920 long tons). This reduced their freeboard by about 16 inches (41 cm) and gave them a slight bow trim that made them very wet ships.^[​7]

High-tensile steel was used throughout the longitudinally-framed hull with mild steel used only in areas that did not contribute to structural strength. This, plus refinements in the design process, meant that the hull was 19% lighter than that of the preceding Andrei Pervozvanny-class pre-dreadnoughts.^[​8] The hull was subdivided by 13 transverse watertight bulkheads and had a double bottom. The engine and condenser rooms were divided by two longitudinal bulkheads. They had two electrically driven rudders on the centerline, the main rudder abaft the smaller auxiliary rudder. Their designed metacentric height was 1.76 meters (5.8 ft).
甘古特级战列舰（英文：Gangut class Battleship ，俄文：Гангут Петропавловск ），是20世纪10年代俄罗斯建造的无畏级战列舰，也是苏联海军从沙皇海军继承的仅有一级战列舰
标准排水量：23400吨（25464吨）；满载排水量：25850吨（26700吨）
舰长：181.2米（184.86米）；舰宽：26米（27.3米）；吃水：8.4米
动力设备：25座（12座）亚罗式锅炉，4座帕森斯式蒸汽机，4轴，主机功率42000轴马力（设计），50000轴马力（实际）（61000轴马力）；
最大航速：23节（设计）/24.6节（实际）；燃料：1000～3000吨煤（1170吨油料）；续航力：5000海里/10节，4000海里/16节，900海里/23节
装甲防护：主装甲带170～227毫米舰首127毫米舰尾102毫米；内装甲带首炮塔与尾炮塔之间76～102毫米舷内装甲279毫米；甲板76毫米（36毫米附加装甲）；炮塔254～305毫米炮廓127毫米；指挥塔254毫米
武备：主炮四座三联装305毫米/52倍口径炮；副炮16门120毫米/50倍口径炮廓炮；高射武器2门76毫米高炮；4门47毫米高炮（6门45毫米高炮）；8挺高射机枪（二战期间在跑塔顶部加装了6门76毫米高炮）；鱼雷4座457毫米（18英寸）鱼雷发射管（水下）
舰名变更
甘古特（1911年）——十月革命（1925年5月27日） （英语：Russian battleship Gangut (1911)）
彼得罗巴甫洛夫斯克（1911年）——马拉（1921年5月31日）——彼得罗巴甫洛夫斯克（1943年）——沃尔霍夫（1950年） （英语：Russian battleship Petropavlovsk (1911)）
塞瓦斯托波尔（1911年）——巴黎公社（1921年3月3日）——塞瓦斯托波尔（1943年） （英语：Russian battleship Sevastopol (1911)）
波尔塔瓦（1911年）——伏龙芝（1926年1月7日） [​13] （英语：Russian battleship Poltava (1911)）