Um no.. Gnevny class destroyers was a class of 29 destroyers. While it was hardly perfect and had many flaws, you don't build a class of 29 destroyers and call it a failure. These ships could steam up to 38 knots, although due to QC issues, some of these ships don't reach the 38 knots. 38 knots is faster than you see with any destroyer around. These ships goes back to an Italian destroyer heritage, and the Italians love fast ships.
With regards to sensors, much of WW2 destroyers don't have anything like advanced sensors. But for a WW2 destroyer, the Gnevny class can be considered heavily armed. Ballistically, the main gun punches harder than any other gun of its type in WW2. As for AA armament, ships tend to add guns during their service aside from the standard armament given which was inadequete at the start, still the class was able to fend itself against German air attacks. I won't call WW2 levels of construction, or even by the late thirties to be high in QC, much of the record of ships like these --- the Gnevny class should be considered average, not the best, not the worst --- comes from the people who manned and maintained the ships rather than the excellence of design.
Some of these destroyers are considered war heroes by the Soviet Union, most notably the Gremyaschy which escorted and fought back German attacks on Lend Lease convoys to the Soviet Union. Here is her war record, and she was also put on a stamp. You can that much of the class served in WW2 protecting convoys in assistance to the Allies. This ship even earned a stamp, and today, a modern ship is named after
The naming for the very first ship of a type especially a mile-stone like type 055 certainly carries huge political and traditional significance. I have no favor of regionalism or pride, but there is simply no city or place that can compete in political significance with cities or places like Nangchang, Jinggangshan, Yanan etc. After 101 though, it will be totally procedural as new ship got name vacated by decommissioned old ship.
