from Wikepedia regarding the ship and it's class,

Laid down in 1970, the first ship of the class, Kiev, was partially based on a design for a full-deck carrier proposed in Project Orel. Originally the Soviet Navy wanted a supercarrier similar to the American Kitty Hawk-class. However, the smaller Kiev-class design was chosen because it was considered to be more cost effective.

Unlike most NATO aircraft carriers, such as U.S. or most British ones, the Kiev class is a combination of both a cruiser and an aircraft carrier. In the Soviet Navy, this class of ships was specifically designated as a "heavy aviation cruiser" (Russian: Тяжелые авианесущие крейсера) rather than solely an aircraft carrier. This designation allowed the ships to transit the Turkish Straits, while the Montreux Convention prohibited aircraft carriers heavier than 15,000 tons from passing through the Straits.

The ships were designed with a large island superstructure to starboard, with an angled flight deck 2/3rds of the length of the total deck, and the foredeck was taken up with heavy surface-to-air and surface-to-surface missile armament. The intended mission of the Kiev class was support for strategic missile submarines, other surface ships and naval aviation; it was capable of engaging in anti-aircraft, anti-submarine, and surface warfare.

Name:	Kiev
Builder:	Chernomorskiy yard, Mykolaiv
Laid down:	21 July 1970
Launched:	26 December 1972
Commissioned:	28 December 1975
Decommissioned:	30 June 1993
Fate:	Sold to a Chinese company in 1996. Theme park in Tianjin since 1 May 2004.
General characteristics
Class and type:	Kiev-class aircraft cruiser
Displacement:	30,530 tons (standard) [1] 41,370 tons (loaded) [1]
Length:	273.1 m (896 ft) o/a[1]
Beam:	49.2 m (161 ft) overall 31 m (102 ft) at the waterline[1]
Draught:	8.95 m (29.4 ft)[1]
Propulsion:	Four shaft geared steam turbines, 140,000 shp (100 MW)
Speed:	32 kn (59 km/h; 37 mph)
Range:	13,500 nmi (25,000 km; 15,500 mi) at 18 kn (33 km/h; 21 mph)
Complement:	1,612 ship's crew 430 air group
Armament:	4 × twin SS-N-12 Sandbox SSM launchers (8 missiles) 2 × twin SA-N-3 Shtorm SAM launchers (72 missiles) 2 × twin SA-N-4 Gecko SAM launchers (40 missiles) 2 × twin 76 mm guns 8 × AK-630 30 mm CIWS 10 × 533 mm torpedo tubes 1 × twin SUW-N-1 ASW rocket launcher (16 nuclear-tipped rockets) 2 × RBU-6000 anti-submarine rocket launchers
Aircraft carried:	32 (total); 12 Yak-38M fighter aircraft 20 Kamov Ka-25 or Kamov Ka-27 helicopters