Russian Northern Fleet, Aircraft cruiser 'Admiral Kuznetsov' | Северный флот, Тяжелый авианесущий крейсер 'Адмирал флота Советского Союза Кузнецов'
NATO : 'Kreml' class | USSR/RUS : project 1143.5
The lead ship of its class and the only remained in Russian Navy. The second (unfinished) - 'Varyag' - was sold to China
'Admiral Kuznetsov' was laid down (as 'Riga') in 1982, launched (as 'Leonid Brezhnev') in 1985, completed as 'Tbilisi', comissioned in 1991 and became fully operational in 1995
