 And the unnamed ship was intended to be 5.2% along, but was only 2.5% complete.These ships were canceled on 18 April 1953, after Stalin's death on 5 March, by the Ministry of Transport and Heavy Machinery, and the hulls of "Moskva" and the third ship were scrapped on the slipways later that year.The Ministry ordered in June that "Stalingrad"s hull, which was about 70% ready for launching, be used for weapons tests.