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 ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: For Moscow’s navy, the failure of the Ulyanovsk project is one of the biggest, baddest memories of them all. Had she ever sailed, the Soviet ...

What You Need to Know: The Soviet Union had ambitious plans to build a powerful aircraft carrier fleet ... and and was working on a true carrier, the Ulyanovsk, at the end of the Cold War.