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Soviet aircraft carrier Minsk

Soviet aircraft carrier Minsk

Kiev-class aircraft carrier
Minsk is an aircraft carrier 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.... Wikipedia
Length: 896′
Launched: September 30, 1975
Draft: 29′
Beam: 161′
Construction started: December 28, 1972
Aircraft carried: 16 Yak-38M fighter aircraft; 18 Kamov Ka-25 or Kamov Ka-27 helicopters
Commissioned: 27 September 1978