This is one of my favorite ships. I don't know why I like it, but the design of the ship has a certain appeal to me. This ship is the Soviet helicopter carrier Moskva and her sister ship Leningrad. There were only two of the ships built. Apparently they didn't handle well in rough seas. They carried only helicopters and thus could not be considered aircraft carriers.
The forward part of the ship was used for conventional naval weaponry while the large area in the rear was used for aircraft operations.
The ships were designed to be flagships of ASW groups that would protect the areas where Soviet ballistic missile submarines would patrol.
The cruisers were laid down in the middle of the 1960's and were commissioned by the end of the decade.
They were both homeported in the Black Sea.
The Leningrad was removed from service in 1991, but the Moskva was put in reserve status in 1994, and later sold for scrap to India.
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