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Kiev (Russian: Киев) is an aircraft carrier (heavy aircraft cruiser in Russian classification) [2] that served the Soviet Navy and the Russian Navy from 1975 to 1993. She was built between 1970 and 1975 at Chernomorski factory in Mykolaiv and was the first Kiev-class vessel to be built. She is currently part of a theme park in China.
Unlike most NATO aircraft carriers, such as U.S. or most British ones, the Kiev class is a combination of both a cruiser and an aircraft carrier. In the Soviet Navy, this class of ships was specifically designated as a "heavy aviation cruiser" (Russian: Тяжелые авианесущие крейсера) rather than solely as an aircraft ...
Minsk (Russian: Минск) is an aircraft carrier (heavy aircraft cruiser in Russian classification) [a] that served the Soviet Navy and the Russian Navy from 1978 to 1994. She was the second Kiev-class vessel to be built. From 2000 to 2016 she was a theme park known as Minsk World in Shatoujiao, Yantian, Shenzhen, China.
One of the Minsk’s other sister ships, the Kiev – named for the Ukrainian capital – is an attraction at the Binhai Aircraft Carrier Theme Park in Tianjin, on China’s northeastern coast.
The theme park opened on 10 May 2000. As of 2005, it had attracted more than five million visitors and generated 450 million yuan in revenue. [1] The park closed in February 2016 and the aircraft carrier was moved to Zhoushan for repairs, after which it would be moved to another theme park in Nantong, Jiangsu. [2]
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The Binhai Tourism Zone was finally chosen as the most suitable site for the National Maritime Museum due to its project characteristics and its potential to form a marine-themed cluster with nearby attractions such as the Kiev Aircraft Carrier Theme Park, the Ancient Coast Shell Dike Site, and the Bohai Marine Monitoring Base.
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