Admiral of the fleet
Admiral Flota Sovetskogo Soyuza Kuznetsov ( "Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Kuznetsov", originally the name of the fifth ) is an aircraft carrier (heavy aircraft cruiser in Russian classification) serving as the flagship of the Russian Navy. She was built by the Black Sea Shipyard, the sole manufacturer of Soviet aircraft carriers, in Nikolayev within the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (SSR). The initial name of the ship was Riga; it was launched as Leonid Brezhnev, embarked on sea trials as Tbilisi, and finally named "Admiral Flota Sovetskogo Soyuza Kuznetsov" after Admiral of the fleet of the Soviet Union Nikolay Gerasimovich Kuznetsov.