The carrier Minsk, which has been anchored for the past eight years in a lagoon near the Yangtze River in Nantong, Jiangsu ...

Minsk is also just one of three former Soviet-built carriers to end up in China, and its condition may have been so bad when it arrived that previous plans to refurbish it were canceled.

Summary: The Soviet-era Minsk aircraft carrier, originally a Kiev-class “heavy aviation cruiser,” has had a unique post-service life as a museum piece in a now-defunct Chinese theme park.