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A Yak-36 Forger aircraft parked aboard the flight deck of the Soviet aircraft carrier KIEV (CVHG)

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Country: Mediterranean Sea (MED)

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Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

Cold War era aerial photographs of the Soviet Kiev class aircraft carriers made by US Navy pilots.

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01/08/1986
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Cold War: Soviet Aircraft Carriers

Aerial photographs of the Soviet Kiev class aircraft carriers
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The U.S. National Archives
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