Originally constructed by Germany as Lützow, the fifth and final Admiral Hipper-class heavy cruiser, she was sold to the Soviets in 1940 and renamed Petropavlovsk. She assumed the name Tallinn in 1943 upon being salvaged and returned to service after suffering heavy damage from German airstrikes in the siege of Leningrad and sunk.
Post-war, she was used as a training ship and barracks before being scrapped by the 1950s.
