Chile looked to replace the scrapped battleship Almirante Lattorre in the early 1960's. Lack of funds meant that sourcing a new ship had to be put off to the early 1970's. Eventually overtures were made to the Ukraine to purchase one of their Zhdantiger class cruisers, the Ukraine being strapped for cash at that time agreed to the sale. The ship arrived in Chilean waters in 1975 and was named Almirante Lattorre in honour of the long served ship and Admiral of that name.
At that stage the armament was the remaining 6x152mm guns in two triple turrets all forward, and 8x100mm dual purpose guns in twin mountings down each side of the ship. The missile armament consisted of three twin mountings of (Osa-M ?) . The three to four Kamov Ka-25 helicopters provided the anti-submarine force.
Edit: I have retagged the above information as I had the time scales wrong for the equipment I had used. Originally I had used 1960's when it should be mid 70's. NJM