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Baku (Russian: Баку) was a Kiev-class aircraft carrier [a] [b] of the Soviet Navy and the Russian Navy from 1987 to 1996. In 1991 the ship was renamed Admiral Flota Sovetskogo Soyuza Gorshkov (Russian: Адмира́л фло́та Сове́тского Сою́за Горшков "Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Gorshkov") in Russian service.
Builders: Russia (Soviet "Baku" as Kiev-class aircraft carrier / Russia Sevmash in Severodvinsk) Displacement: 45,400 tons; Aircraft: 30 × fighters and 6 × helicopters; Armament: Barak 8 SAM, AK-630 CIWS; Propulsion: 8 turbopressurized boilers, 4 shafts, 4 geared steam turbines, 180,000 hp; Speed: in excess of 30 knots; Ships in class: 1
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 ...
The list of aircraft carriers of the Soviet Union and Russia includes all aircraft carriers built by, proposed for, or in service with the naval forces of either the Soviet Union or Russia. Although listed as aircraft carriers, none of them (with the exception of the never-built Ulyanovsk ) is a "true" aircraft carrier ( supercarrier ).
Two ships of the Russian Navy have been named after Admiral of the fleet of the Soviet Union Sergei Georgiyevich Gorshkov, the former commander of the Soviet Navy.. Soviet aircraft carrier Admiral Gorshkov - a Kiev-class aircraft carrier originally named Baku, and sold to India as INS Vikramaditya in 2004.
The plane went down about 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Aktau. Cellphone footage circulating online appeared to show the aircraft making a steep descent before crashing into the ground and exploding in a fireball. Other footage showed a part of its fuselage ripped away from the wings and the rest of the aircraft lying upside down on the grass.
The aircraft took off from Heydar Aliyev International Airport, Baku, at 07:55 AZT (Azerbaijan Time) [a] on a flight to Kadyrov Grozny International Airport. [7] Approximately 40 minutes after takeoff, as the aircraft entered Russian airspace near Grozny, the crew reported to air traffic control that it had lost GPS navigational aids.
Passengers and crew who survived the crash told Azerbaijani media that they heard loud noises on the aircraft as it was circling over Grozny. Flight attendant Aydan Rahimli said that after one noise, the oxygen masks automatically released. She said that she went to perform first aid on a colleague, Zulfugar Asadov, and then they heard another ...