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The heavy aircraft carrying cruiser Kiev served the Soviet
Soviet Navy

The Soviet Navy was the naval part of the Soviet Armed Forces. Often referred to as the Red Fleet, the Soviet Navy would have been instrumental in any perceived Warsaw Pact role in an all-out war with NATO when it would have to stop the naval convoys bringing reinforcements over the Atlantic to the Western European theatre....
 and Russian navies
Russian Navy

The Russian Navy or VMF is the Navy of the Russian Armed Forces. The international designation of Russian naval vessels is "RFS" - "Russian Federation Ship"....
 from 1975 to 1993. It was built from 1970 till 1975 at Chernomorski factory in Nikolayev
Mykolaiv

Mykolaiv , also known as Nikolayev , is a major city in southern Ukraine....
 and was the first ship of its class (Project 1143 Krechyet
Kiev class aircraft carrier

The Kiev class carriers were the first class of fixed-wing aircraft carriers built in the Soviet Union.First laid down in 1970 the Kiev class was partially based on a design for a full-deck carrier proposed in Project Orel....
 (Gyrfalcon
Gyrfalcon

The gyrfalcon or , also spelled gerfalcon, is the largest of all falcon species. The Gyrfalcon breeds on Arctic coasts and islands of North America, Europe and Asia....
) or Kiev class)

The Kiev was laid down on July 21, 1970 and launched on 26 December 1972. She was completed and commissioned on 28 December 1975, but officially entered service only in February 1977, after completing all trials.






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The heavy aircraft carrying cruiser Kiev served the Soviet
Soviet Navy

The Soviet Navy was the naval part of the Soviet Armed Forces. Often referred to as the Red Fleet, the Soviet Navy would have been instrumental in any perceived Warsaw Pact role in an all-out war with NATO when it would have to stop the naval convoys bringing reinforcements over the Atlantic to the Western European theatre....
 and Russian navies
Russian Navy

The Russian Navy or VMF is the Navy of the Russian Armed Forces. The international designation of Russian naval vessels is "RFS" - "Russian Federation Ship"....
 from 1975 to 1993. It was built from 1970 till 1975 at Chernomorski factory in Nikolayev
Mykolaiv

Mykolaiv , also known as Nikolayev , is a major city in southern Ukraine....
 and was the first ship of its class (Project 1143 Krechyet
Kiev class aircraft carrier

The Kiev class carriers were the first class of fixed-wing aircraft carriers built in the Soviet Union.First laid down in 1970 the Kiev class was partially based on a design for a full-deck carrier proposed in Project Orel....
 (Gyrfalcon
Gyrfalcon

The gyrfalcon or , also spelled gerfalcon, is the largest of all falcon species. The Gyrfalcon breeds on Arctic coasts and islands of North America, Europe and Asia....
) or Kiev class)

The Kiev was laid down on July 21, 1970 and launched on 26 December 1972. She was completed and commissioned on 28 December 1975, but officially entered service only in February 1977, after completing all trials. In 1976 she was moved from the Black Sea to her destination Severomorsk
Severomorsk

Severomorsk is a closed city in Murmansk Oblast, Russia, located about north of Murmansk along the Kola Bay. This is the main administrative base of the Russian Northern Fleet....
, as a part of the Northern Fleet. From 1977 till 1987, Kiev undertook 10 practice voyages to the Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea
Mediterranean Sea

The Mediterranean Sea is a sea or Ocean off the Atlantic Ocean surrounded by the Mediterranean region and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Europe, on the south by Africa, and on the east by Asia....
. In March 1979 she undertook manoeuvres with her sistership Minsk on the Mediterranean. In October 1981 she was a flagship in great manoeuvres Zapad-81
Exercise Zapad

Exercise Zapad were large scale military exercises carried out in the Soviet Union in 1981 and 1999....
 on the Baltic Sea
Baltic Sea

The Baltic Sea is a brackish inland sea located in Northern Europe, from 53?N to 66?N latitude and from 20?E to 26?E longitude. It is bounded by the Scandinavian Peninsula, the mainland of Europe, and the Denmark islands....
. From December 1982 to November 1984 she underwent an overhaul and modernization in Nikolayev
Mykolaiv

Mykolaiv , also known as Nikolayev , is a major city in southern Ukraine....
. From 1985, the practice of operating Yakovlev Yak-38
Yakovlev Yak-38

The Yakovlev Yak-38 was Soviet Naval Aviation's first and only operational VTOL multi-role combat aircraft....
s in STOL
STOL

STOL is an initialism for short take-off and landing, a term used to describe aircraft with very short runway requirements.The formal NATO definition is:...
 mode instead of VTOL
VTOL

VTOL is an abbreviation for Vertical Take-Off and Landing aircraft. This classification includes fixed-wing aircraft that can hover and take off and land vertically, helicopters, and other aircraft with powered rotors, such as tiltrotors....
 was introduced, allowing to increase aircraft payload and range, and a replacement of Kamov Ka-25
Kamov Ka-25

The Kamov Ka-25 is a Russian naval helicopter, designed by Nikolai Il'yich Kamov or V.A. Glushenkov....
 helicopters with Kamov Ka-27
Kamov Ka-27

The Kamov Ka-27 is a military helicopter developed for the Soviet Navy, and currently in service in Russia, Ukraine, Vietnam, South Korea, China and India....
 started. In 1985 Kiev went back to the Northern Fleet. From 1987 she mainly stayed in Severomorsk. In December 1989 she was moved to a reserve. After a disintegration of the USSR, the ship was taken by Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
. Due to low military budget and worsening ship's condition, she was retired on 30 June 1993. As the building yard was located in the newly independent Ukraine
Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east; Belarus to the north; Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary to the west; Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south....
, she could not be serviced.

In 1996 she was sold to a Chinese
People's Republic of China

The People's Republic of China , commonly known as China, is the largest country in East Asia and the List of countries by population in the world with over 1.3 billion people, approximately a fifth of the world's population....
 company, and has been part of the military theme park in Tianjin
Tianjin

is the third largest city of the People's Republic of China in terms of urban population. Administratively it is one of the four municipality that have Political divisions of China status, reporting directly to the central government....
 since 1 May 2004.

See also

  • Kiev class aircraft carrier
    Kiev class aircraft carrier

    The Kiev class carriers were the first class of fixed-wing aircraft carriers built in the Soviet Union.First laid down in 1970 the Kiev class was partially based on a design for a full-deck carrier proposed in Project Orel....
  • List of aircraft carriers
    List of aircraft carriers

    The list of aircraft carriers contains all aircraft carriers listed alphabetically by name.Those listed in Bold are currently in active service....


External links

  • - article on the Kiev Class in Russian
  • - article in English from FAS


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