Soviet aircraft carrier Minsk
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Minsk (Russian: Минск) is an aircraft carrier (heavy aircraft cruiser in Russian classification)[2] that served the Soviet Navy and the Russian Navy from 1978 to 1994. She was the second Kiev-class vessel to be built.
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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 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Kiev-class aircraft cruiser |
Displacement | |
Length | 273 m (896 ft) overall[1] |
Beam | |
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 |
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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.