This article is about the lead ship of the Soviet Kiev-class aircraft carrier. For other Kiev-class aircraft carriers, see Kiev-class aircraft carrier. For the cancelled helicopter carrier, see Soviet helicopter carrier Kiev. For other ships, see Kiev (ship).
Ex-Kiev at the Tianjin Binhai theme park on 1 May 2004.
History
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Name
Kiev
Namesake
Kiev (Kyiv)
Builder
Chernomorskiy yard, Nikolayev
Laid down
21 July 1970
Launched
26 December 1972
Commissioned
28 December 1975
Decommissioned
30 June 1993
Fate
Sold to a Chinese company in 1996. Theme park in Tianjin since 1 May 2004.
General characteristics
Class and type
Kiev-class aircraft cruiser
Displacement
30,530 tons (standard) [1]
41,370 tons (loaded) [1]
Length
273.1 m (896 ft) o/a[1]
Beam
49.2 m (161 ft) overall
31 m (102 ft) at the waterline[1]
Draught
8.95 m (29.4 ft)[1]
Propulsion
Four shaft geared steam turbines, 140,000 shp (100 MW)
Kiev (Russian: Киев) is an aircraft carrier (heavy aircraft cruiser in Russian classification)[2] that served the Soviet Navy and the Russian Navy from 1975 to 1993. She was built between 1970 and 1975 at Chernomorski factory in Mykolaiv and was the first Kiev-class vessel to be built. She is currently part of a theme park in China.
^ abcde"Heavy Aircraft-Carrying Cruisers - Project 1143". russian-ships.info. 2013. Archived from the original on 29 October 2014. Retrieved 6 December 2013.
^Due to restrictions imposed by the Montreux Convention limiting the tonnage of aircraft carriers traveling through the Bosporus, all Soviet and Russian aircraft carriers are named as aircraft carrying cruisers. In the case of Kiev, this accurately reflects the ship's mission and weapons fit.
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