Soviet aircraft carrier Minsk

Minsk in 1983
History
Russia
Name	Minsk
Namesake	City of Minsk
Builder	Chernomorskiy yard, Mykolayiv
Laid down	28 December 1972 [1]
Launched	30 September 1975 [1]
Commissioned	27 September 1978 [1]
Decommissioned	30 June 1993
Status	Sold to China in 1995; sold again and placed in Naval museum in Jiangsu, China since 2016. Severely damaged by fire on 16 August 2024
General characteristics
Class and type	Kiev-class aircraft cruiser
Displacement	30,535 tons (standard) [1] 41,380 tons (loaded) [1]
Length	273 m (896 ft) overall[1]
Beam	49.2 m (161 ft) o/a 31 m (102 ft) w/l[1]
Draught	8.94 m (29.3 ft)[1]
Propulsion	4 shaft geared steam turbines, 140,000 shp
Speed	32 knots (59 km/h)
Endurance	13,500 nautical miles (25,000 km) at 18 knots (33 km/h)
Armament	4 × twin SS-N-12 Sandbox SSM launchers (8 missiles) 2 × twin SA-N-3 Shtorm SAM launchers (72 missiles) 2 × twin SA-N-4 Gecko SAM launchers (40 missiles) 2 × twin 76 mm guns 8 × AK-630 30 mm CIWS 10 × 533 mm torpedo tubes 1 × twin SUW-N-1 ASW rocket launcher (16 nuclear-tipped rockets) 2 × RBU-6000 anti-submarine rocket launchers
Aircraft carried	16 Yak-38M fighter aircraft 18 Kamov Ka-25 or Kamov Ka-27 helicopters

Minsk (Russian: Минск) is an aircraft carrier (heavy aircraft cruiser in Russian classification)^[a] that served the Soviet Navy and the Russian Navy from 1978 to 1994. She was the second Kiev-class vessel to be built.

From 2000 to 2016 she was a theme park known as Minsk World in Shatoujiao, Yantian, Shenzhen, China.

In April 2016, Minsk was towed to Jiangsu for exhibition. On 16 August 2024, she was burnt in a fire in Nantong, Jiangsu province.

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