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Built as an aircraft carrier of Project 1143.5 by Chernomorsky Sudostroitelni Zavod yard in Nikolayev (South), Ukraine for the Soviet Navy.
22 February 1983 laid down. Her intended name was RIGA but when the political satiation changed she was renamed in 1982 in LEONID BREZHNEV
05 December 1985 launched as the LEONID BREZHNEV.
Displacement 46.600 tons standard, 59.400 tons full load, dim. 304.5 x 67 x 11m. (draught).
Powered by four steam turbines delivering 200.000 shp., four shafts, speed 29 knots.
Armament: 12 cell VLS for P-700 ‘Granit’ (SS-N-19 Shipwreck) SSMs. 24 Eight round Kinshal (SA-N-9 Gauntlet) vertical SAM launchers with 192 missiles. 8 Combined gun/missiles close air defence systems with 8 twin 30-mm Gatling guns and Klinok (SA-N-11 Grison) missiles. Two RPK-5 (UDAV-1) ASW rock3et systems with 60 rockets.
Carried up to 41 aircraft, and numerous helicopters for anti-submarine warfare (ASW).
Crew: 2.626 including air personnel and 40 flag staff.
After Brezhnev fell in disfavour in 1987, the name was changed to TBILISI.
October 1990 the name was changed to ADMIRAL FLOTA SOVETSKOGO SOYUZA KUZNETSOV, but mostly shortened to ADMIRAL KUZNETSOV.
21 January 1991 commissioned.

December 1991 left the Black Sea to join the Northern Fleet
1995 Was she operational.
1996 she made a short Mediterranean training cruise.
1997 out of commission for overhaul on the Northern Fleet shipyard, but lack of funding kept her in the yard till July 1998.
3 November 1998 she returned to active service.
Late 2000 took part in the rescue operation of the lost submarine KURSK.
She is mostly tied up alongside in the naval base of the Northern Fleet due to technical and financially problems.

11 December 2007 she passed through international waters off the Norway coast, and she was launching aircraft and helicopters, then she proceeded to the Mediterranean for fleet manoeuvres with 11 other Russian warships.

She is the only Russian aircraft carrier, did have a sister the VARYAG, but she was sold unfinished to China.

Ukraine 2004 3.50 U.A.H. sg?, scott 535c.

Source: Wikipedia. The Encyclopadia of Warships.

Russia 2001 on border of the sheet.
On the margins of the souvenir sheet are represented (above): a naval pennant with memorials "1701-2001" and flags of naval educational institutions of Russia of various epochs. Below on the right in the foreground there is a heavy cruiser (wrong she is a aircraft carrier) "ADMIRAL KUZNETSOV "; below there is a tape as a pennant on which the following words are given: "training", "reclamation", "application".

Guyana 2013 $700 sg?, scott?

This miniature sheet of Mozambique issued in 2011 gives that depict is the first Chinese aircraft carrier but on the hull you can see the Russian Red Star and the pennant No 063 which belong to her sister the ADMIRAL KUZNETSOV