VMS Ulyanovsk

VMS Ulyanovsk

VMS Ulyanovsk operating in the Black Sea
Class overview
Name:	Ulyanovsk-class aircraft carrier
Builders:	Black Sea Shipyard
Operators:	Soviet Navy
Preceded by:	Kuznetsov class
Built:	1988-1995
In service:	1995-present
Completed:	2
Active:	2
General characteristics
Displacement:	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, 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-27 ASW helicopters 2 Kamov Ka-27PS SAR helicopters
History
Soviet Union
Name:	Ulyanovsk (Улья́новск)
Namesake:	Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov
Ordered:	11 June 1986

VMS Ulyanovsk (Russian: Улья́новск) is an aircraft carrier (designated officially as an aircraft cruiser) serving the Soviet Navy. She is the lead ship of her class. Originally to be titled Kremlin, she was ordered in June 1986 and built from 1988-1995. Her homeport is Nikolayev, in Ukraine