![]() Soviet nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Ulyanovsk
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Class overview | |
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Name | Ulyanovsk class |
Builders | Chernomorsky Shipyard 444 |
Operators | ![]() |
Preceded by | Kuznetsov class |
Succeeded by | Project 23000E |
Planned | 2 |
Cancelled | 2 |
History | |
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Name | Ulyanovsk (Russian: Улья́новск) |
Ordered | 11 June 1986 |
Laid down | 25 November 1988 |
Commissioned | 1995 (planned) |
Stricken | 1 November 1991 |
Fate | Scrapped at 40% completion 5 February 1992 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Aircraft carrier |
Displacement |
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Length | 321.2 m (1,054 ft) overall[1] |
Beam | |
Draught | 10.6 m (35 ft)[1] |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 30 knots (56 km/h) |
Range | Unlimited distance; 20–25 years |
Endurance | Limited only by supplies |
Complement | 3,400 total[1] |
Armament |
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Aircraft carried |
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Ulyanovsk (Russian: Улья́новск, IPA: [ʊˈlʲjanəfsk]), Soviet designation Project 1143.7, was a fixed-wing aircraft carrier laid down on 25 November 1988 as the first of a class of Soviet nuclear-powered supercarriers. It was intended for the first time to offer true blue water naval aviation capability for the Soviet Navy. The ship would have been equipped with steam catapults that could launch fully loaded aircraft, representing a major advance over the Kuznetsov class, which could only launch less-loaded aircraft from their ski-jumps. However, construction of Ulyanovsk was stopped at about 40% after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.[2]