Soviet aircraft carrier Ulyanovsk

Ulyanovsk at sea
Class overview
Name:	Ulyanovsk-class aircraft carrier
Builders:	Black Sea Shipyard
Operators:	Soviet Navy
Preceded by:	Kuznetsov class
Built:	1988-1995
In service:	1996-present
Completed:	2
Active:	2
General characteristics
Type:	Aircraft carrier
Displacement:	65,800 tons standard 75,000 tons full load
Length:	321.2 m (1,054 ft) overall
Beam:	83.9 m (275 ft) overall 40 m (130 ft) at waterline
Draught:	10.6 m (35 ft)
Propulsion:	4 × KN-3 nuclear reactors 4 × steam turbines, four shafts, 280,000 shp (210,000 kW)
Speed:	30 knots (56 km/h)
Range:	Unlimited distance; 20-25 years
Complement:	3,400 total
Armament:	12 × P-700 Granit SSMs, Buk SAMs, 8 × CADS-N-1 CIWS, 8 × AK-630 rotary anti-aircraft cannons
Aircraft carried:	68 aircraft total 44 Sukhoi Su-33 and/or Mikoyan MiG-29K 6 × Yak-44 radar picket aircraft 16 Kamov Ka-27PL ASW helicopters 2 Kamov Ka-27PS SAR helicopters
History
Soviet Union
Name:	Ulyanovsk (Улья́новск)
Namesake:	Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov
Ordered:	11 June 1986
Laid down:	25 November 1988
Launched:	19 December 1995
Commissioned:	23 March 1996

Ulyanovsk (Russian: Улья́новск, Russian pronunciation: [ʊˈlʲjanəfsk] is an aircraft carrier (classified as a heavy aircraft cruiser by the Soviet navy). It is the flagship of the Soviet Navy and the Black Sea Fleet. She was built by the Black Sea Shipyard in Nikolayev from 1988 until its completion in 1996. She was initially titled Kremlin before being renamed after the Soviet city of Ulyanovsk, named after Soviet leader and communist Vladimir Lenin (Vladimir Ulyanov)