TAKR "Minsk" - replenishment of reserves from the KKS "Berezina", 1978
Aircraft carrier pr.1143.5 "Leonid Brezhnev" - "Tbilisi" - "Admiral of the Fleet Kuznetsov"
Aircraft carrier pr.1143 "Minsk"
Aircraft carrier pr.1143.2 "Novorossiysk"
TAVKR "Baku" - "Admiral Gorshkov"
In 1987, when I was 10 years old, my father took me to Sevastopol, where I spent the whole day with him on the TAVKR "Baku" (an impression for a lifetime) … me on the wall - in memory of my father (now this photo is freely posted on the Internet, and by the standards of 1987 it was something to have an image of a modern warship):
So, it would seem, this newest ship should become a decoration and the main event of the parade on the day of the Navy-1987 in Sevastopol, but it was not there … was not there. Citizens of the USSR did not have the opportunity to see the latest examples of military equipment and be proud of the achievements of their country. It was possible to freely buy the book "NATO Surface Fleet" in the store, but it is impossible to find out something about their armaments. The achievements of the military industry of the USSR were hidden from their citizens. Even S. G. Gorshkov in "The Sea Power of the State" in 1976 (!) Did not dare to mention the Soviet TAVKRs, but this was our national priority (VTOL carrier ship). I am not a big fan of the work of Kucherenko ("Kalashnikov"), but in some ways he is right: in the post-war USSR, citizens were deliberately deprived of any information about the armed forces. Since the achievements of science and technology in the late USSR were concentrated in the field of military production, their concealment objectively worked for the Americans, who were trying to convince the people that he was an eternally drunk cattle, unable to do anything better than a Zhiguli …
Serbal Captain I rank (https://tsushima.su)
TAKR "Kiev" project 1143
Aircraft carrier "Ulyanovsk", project 1143.7 ship
Chinese dream "Varyag"
The aircraft carrier pr.1143.6 "Varyag" sold to China is busted through the Bosphorus. 01.11.2001
