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 ...

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.

Six people were injured as a result of an accident during tests of the fuselage of an Ilyushin-76 plane at the Aviastar plant in Ulyanovsk ... of the fuselage an aircraft in the process of ...