With our thanks to David Chessum for allowing us to publish
In Russian navy called a heavy aircraft cruiser, part of the Kiev-class, preceded by Moskva-class and succeeded by Kuznetsov-class. Laid down by Chernomorskiy yard, Mykolaiv, Ukraine on 28 December 1972, launched on 30 September 1975, commissioned on 27 September 1978, decommissioned on 30 June 1993, sold towards a South Korean company to be broken up, resold to the Chinese state-owned Guangdong Ship Dismantly Company to be broken up, resold to the Shenzhen Mink Investment Company and became part of a military theme park in Shatouijao, again resold on 31 May 2006 to CITIC Shenzhen. Later towed to Shanghai for refurbishment with the intention to reopen her what still not happened.
Displacement 30.535 (standard)-41.380 (loaded) tons and as dimensions 249.5 (waterline)-273 (over all) x 31 (waterline)-49.2 (over all) x 8.94 metres or 818.6-896 x 102-161 x 29.3 feet. Flight deck is 189 x 20.7 metres or 620 x 68 feet. Crew numbered 1.200 men excluded aircrew. The 4 shaft geared turbines and 8 boilers supplied 140.000 shp(200.000 shp?) allowing a speed of 32 knots and with 18 knots a range of 13.500 nautical miles. She could carry 16 YAK-38 M fighting craft and 18 Kamov Ka-25 or Kamov Ka-27 helicopters. The armament consisted of 4x2 SS-N-12 Sandbox SSM launchers (8 missiles carried), 2x2 SA-N-3 Shtorm SAM launchers (72 missiles carried), 2x2 SA-N-4 Gecko SAM launchers (40 missiles carried), 2x2-7,6 cm guns, 8 AK-630 30 mm CIWS, 10-53,3cm/21”torpedo tubes, 1x2 SUW-N-1 ASW rocket launcher (16 nuclear-tipped rockets) and RBU-6000 anti-submarine rocket launchers
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