The Soviet Union began construction on the Project 1143.7 Ulyanovsk in late 1988. The Ulyanovsk was designed to be a nuclear-powered supercarrier matching the U.S. Navy's Nimitz-class. The ship was ...
Russia has begun commercial oil exports from the Vostok Oil project in Taimyr, sending the first crude shipments to Asia aboard ice-class tankers via the Northern Sea Route.