Russian State Council approved new building battleships according to the Dutch newspaper Haagsche Courant dated 30 June 1908

Gangut-class

An item reported that the Russian State Council the budget for building 4 new battleships approved in contrary to the Doema.(1)

Note
1. The 24.900 tons Gangut-class battleships built between 1909-1914, consisting of the Gangut, Petropavlovsk, Sevastopol and Poltava. The international design contest was win by the German shipyard Blohm un Voss, Hamburg, Germany.