Pride of the Fleet? It looks like it was a border line rusting scowl.
No thats the deck color. They use red.
I think that’s just the color of the nonskid.
On U.S. vessels it’s colored black.
It was an old ship. When your flagship is a 43 year old non-nuclear cruiser, you need to rethink your status as an alleged naval power.
Check out this photo taken onboard the Moskva decades ago.
The deck seems to have been rust colored even then.
Is it actual rust, or rust-colored nonskid? You make the call.