Added this to my site:
EXCERPTS -- Soviet Amphibious Forces: Tasks and Capabilities in General War and Peacetime -- A Research Paper (June 1979)
It's an excerpted run through of the full paper, which you can find
3.1 MB PDF HERE
as a result of me going into the rabbit hole on Soviet thought on Amphibious landings
Might be of use to campaign/scenario designers for Cold War Gone Hot scenarios, for designing useful REDFORCES to use.
For example:
In recent years, many active and reserve Sverdlov-class cruisers equipped with 152-mm guns have undergone conversion or modernization, ensuring the continued availability into the early 1980s of large-caliber naval gunfire.
The last Sverdlovs left the fleet in like 1990.
