In the 1990s, the incomplete Ulyanovsk was cut up for scrap right there on the berth. Admiral Gorshkov, the fourth Soviet heavy aircraft-carrying cruiser in line, was the luckiest: it underwent lengthy repairs and upgrading work in Severodvinsk over the period 2004-2012 and was reborn as the Vikramaditya, an Indian Navy aircraft carrier. Its predecessors were either scrapped or became floating museums and entertainment centers. the very same Admiral Kuznetsov, while its “twin” Varyag was sold to China in 1998 at the scrap-metal price of 20 million dollars and converted into the Liaoning. The Russian Navy currently has only one carrier, i.e. The watchwords of Russia’s surface ship program are succession and caution. However, the projects were shut down following the collapse of the USSR. Meanwhile, the nuclear-powered Ulyanovsk was being built on the berth to become the Soviet Union’s first full-fledged carrier. At the same time, at the Chernomorsky Shipyard outfitting quay work was underway on the Varyag, an equivalent to the Admiral Kuznetsov.
And it was only on the eve of the USSR’s collapse that the navy received the heavy aircraft-carrying cruiser Admiral Kuznetsov, which comes very close to being a standard aircraft carrier. However, the approaches to sea-based aviation within the navy turned out to be diverse enough to generate striking hybrids like the Project 1143 heavy aircraft-carrying cruisers equipped with the uninspiring Yak-38 VTOL aircraft and high power missiles. After he came to power, Nikita Khrushchev declared large surface ships and aviation obsolete.Ĭarrier research resumed after Khrushchev left office. After the war, the navy’s expenditure was slashed to finance the development of nuclear weapons and air defenses and to maintain a powerful army. Research carried out in the 1920s-1930s never became reality due to the lamentable state of the economy and, later, World War II. The history of Russia's aircraft carrier program is long and thorny.
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