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 ...

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 ...

Ulyanovsk is named after Vladimir Ulyanov (Lenin). Here, the leader of the 1917 Revolution was born and lived until he was 17 years old. Before that, by the way, the city was called Simbirsk, and ...