The country had several plans to build them, however, and and was working on a true carrier, the Ulyanovsk, at the end of the Cold War. After the Communists’ victory in 1917, science and ...

Summary and Key Points: The Ulyanovsk-class carrier, or Project 1143.7, was the Soviet Union’s ambitious attempt to develop an 80,000-ton nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to rival the U.S. Navy ...