Soviet aircraft carrier Kiev

Ex-Kiev at the Tianjin Binhai theme park on February 2010.
History
Russia
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)
Speed	32 kn (59 km/h; 37 mph)
Range	13,500 nmi (25,000 km; 15,500 mi) at 18 kn (33 km/h; 21 mph)
Complement	1,612 ship's crew 430 air group
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	32 (total); 12 Yak-38M fighter aircraft 20 Kamov Ka-25 or Kamov Ka-27 helicopters

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.