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Assuming that the USSR survives 1991 mostly intact, what will happen to their aircraft carriers?

After the collapse of the USSR, Russia sold off all but one of their five aircraft carriers between 1991 and 1996, retired both of it's Moskva-class helicopter carriers, and scrapped the unfinished Ulyanovsk nuclear carrier. Meanwhile, Ukraine sold the unfinished Varyag carrier to China in the 1990s. Russia has not built a carrier since, largely due to the fact that they do not have any ports large enough to build one. However, Ukraine remaining a part of the Union in this ATL means that the Soviets continue to have the facilities to build more carriers in the future.

Will a surviving Soviet Union keep at least a few of it's carriers? I would think that they would keep the Admiral Kuznetsov as in OTL, but after that there are a number of options, none of which are necessarily mutually exclusive, but some are certainly more feasible than others:

- Complete the Varyag
- Complete the nuclear-powered Ulyanovsk
- Convert one or more of the old Kiev-class carriers into STOBAR carriers
- Keep and maintain one or more Kiev-class as they are, and invest in the Yak-141 VTOL fighter instead
- Build completely new carriers (such as the proposed Shtorm) later on, after economic recovery

I don't see the Soviets retaining their Moskva-class helicopter carriers much longer, as they reportedly had problems maneuvering in rough seas.

Why yes I did read The Sixth Battle, why do you ask
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