The Soviet Union’s Kiev-class “heavy aviation cruisers” were ambitious but ultimately flawed warships of the Cold War. Functioning as hybrids between a guided-missile cruiser and an aircraft carrier, ...

As for the fourth of the Soviet aircraft cruisers, the Admiral Gorshkov, built as the subclass Baku in the 1980s, was sold to India in 2004 and is now in service as the INS Vikramaditya.

Summary and Key Points: The Ulyanovsk-class carrier, or Project 1143.7, was the Soviet Union’s ambitious attempt to develop an 80,000-ton nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to rival the U.S. Navy ...

After protracted re-negotiations, India and Russia have ended the stalemate over contentious price and technical issues for the Admiral Gorshkov aircraft carrier which had become an irritant in ...

Russia was forced to decommission all of its carriers between 1991 and 1996 to cut costs, with the only surviving carrier being the Admiral Kuznetsov. Russia was able to stay afloat by selling off ...

To identify the Russian and Soviet Union aircraft carriers used throughout history, 24/7 Wall St. reviewed a catalog of aircraft carriers from Haze Gray, an online database of aircraft carriers.

The Admiral Kuznetsov is Russia’s only aircraft carrier. The ship was laid down at the Soviet dockyards in Nikolayev in April 1982, in what is now Mykolaiv in Ukraine.

“Admiral Sergey Gorshkov modernized the Soviet Navy by transitioning it from a backward coastal-defense force into an oceangoing navy, ... aircraft-carrier strike groups.

As for the fourth of the Soviet aircraft cruisers, the Admiral Gorshkov, built as the subclass Baku in the 1980s, was sold to India in 2004 and is now in service as the INS Vikramaditya.