Soviet aircraft carrier Ulyanovsk

	Model of the Soviet nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Ulyanovsk
Class overview
Name	Ulyanovsk class
Builders	Chernomorsky Shipyard 444
Operators	Soviet Navy
Preceded by	Kuznetsov class
Succeeded by	Project 23000
Planned	2
Canceled	2
History
Soviet Union
Name	Ulyanovsk (Russian: Улья́новск)
Ordered	11 June 1986
Laid down	25 November 1988
Commissioned	December 1995 (planned)
Stricken	1 November 1991
Fate	Scrapped at 40% completion 5 February 1992
General characteristics
Type	Aircraft carrier
Displacement	65,800 tons standard; 75,000 tons full load;
Length	321.2 m (1,054 ft) overall
Beam	83.9 m (275 ft) overall; 40 m (130 ft) at waterline;
Draught	10.6 m (35 ft)
Propulsion	4 × KN-3 nuclear reactors; 4 × steam turbines, four shafts, 280,000 shp (210,000 kW);
Speed	30 knots (56 km/h)
Range	Unlimited distance; 20–25 years
Endurance	Limited only by supplies
Complement	3,400 total
Armament	12 × P-700 Granit SSMs,; 3S90 Uragan SAMs,; 8 × CADS-N-1 CIWS,; 8 × AK-630 rotary anti-aircraft cannons;
Aircraft carried	68 aircraft total; 44 Sukhoi Su-33; and/or Mikoyan MiG-29K; 6 × Yak-44 radar picket aircraft; 16 Kamov Ka-27 ASW helicopters; 2 Kamov Ka-27PS SAR helicopters;

Ulyanovsk (Russian: Улья́новск, IPA: [ʊˈlʲjanəfsk]), Soviet designation Project 1143.7, was a STOBAR aircraft carrier laid down at the now-defunct Black Sea Shipyard on 25 November 1988 as the first of a class of nuclear-powered supercarriers for the Soviet Navy. It was intended for the first ship to offer true blue water naval aviation capability for the Soviet Union, as the ship would have been equipped with two steam catapults that could launch heavier fixed-wing aircraft, representing a major advance over the comparatively smaller Kuznetsov class, which could only launch lighter/partly loaded aircraft via a bow ski-jump. However, construction of Ulyanovsk was stopped at about 40% due to the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, and the unfinished hull was later scrapped in early 1992.