Soviet aircraft carrier Novorossiysk

Novorossiysk in 1986
History
Russia
Name	Novorossiysk
Namesake	City of Novorossiysk
Builder	Chernomorskiy yard, Nikolayev
Laid down	30 September 1975[1]
Launched	26 December 1978[1]
Commissioned	14 September 1982[1]
Decommissioned	30 June 1993
Fate	Scrapped 1997
General characteristics
Class and type	Kiev-class aircraft cruiser
Displacement	31,900 tons (standard)[1] 43,220 tons (loaded)[1]
Length	273.1 m (896 ft) overall[1]
Beam	51.3 m (168 ft) o/a 31 m (102 ft) w/l[1]
Draught	9.3 m (31 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 Goblet SAM launchers (72 missiles), 2 × twin 76.2 mm AA guns, 8 × AK-630 30 mm CIWS, 1 × twin SUW-N-1 FRAS Anti-Submarine Rocket launcher
Aircraft carried	12 Yak-38M fighter aircraft 20 Kamov Ka-25 or Kamov Ka-27 helicopters

Novorossiysk (Russian: Новороссийск) was a conventionally powered aircraft carrier (heavy aircraft cruiser in Russian classification)^[2] that served the Soviet Navy and the Russian Navy from 1982 to 1993. She was the third Kiev-class vessel to be built. She was designed to engage in offensive actions as a guided missile cruiser mostly using her deck mounted missiles as well as support anti-submarine and surface actions with her embarked air group.