Kalinin was long at the waterline, and long overall. She had a beam of and had a draft between . Kalinin displaced at standard load and at full load. Her geared steam turbines produced a total of on trials, but she fell somewhat short of her designed speed of , only reaching on trials, because she was over overweight. The ship normally carried of fuel oil, at full load and at overload. This gave her an endurance of at with overload fuel.