Note: "俄罗斯目前正在巴伦支海为印度测试已经改装的，前苏联时期建造的'戈尔什科夫海军上将'号航母，这艘航母预计将在今年12月交付印度海军服役。'库兹涅佐夫海军上将'号航母是'戈尔什科夫海军上将'的深度改进型。"
(a) Barents Sea http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barents_Sea
(the sea takes its current name from the Dutch navigator Willem Barents [c 1550-1597, who worked for the Netherlands, not Russia])
(b) Kiev-class aircraft carrier http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiev-class_aircraft_carrier
(name changes for the fourth ship of the class: Baku (1987–1991), Admiral Gorshkov (1991-1995), now Vikramaditya [Sanskrit meaning "Brave as the Sun"] ([e]ntering Indian service in 2013))
(c) China's aircraft carrier Liaoning is the second ship in Kuznetsov class. See List of aircraft carriers of Russia and the Soviet Union http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lis ... nd_the_Soviet_Union
Note:
(a) Novofedorivka http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novofedorivka
(a Ukrainian Air Force base (formerly Soviet Naval Aviation) in western Crimean Peninsula; the base was also home to the only Soviet aircraft carrier landing trainer and test site, the Nazyemniy Ispitateiniy Treynirovochniy Kompleks Aviatsii (NITKA))
(b) For Yeisk, see Yeysk http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeysk
(The town is build [in 1848] primarily on the Yeya Spit, which separates the Yeya River from the Sea of Azov)
* spit (n): "a small point of land especially of sand or gravel running into a body of water" http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/spit
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India, China Interested in Ukraine’s Carrier Pilot Training Site - Minister
17:41 09/08/2013
KIEV, August 9 (RIA Novosti) - India and China are interested in using Ukraine’s carrier-deck pilot training site in Crimea, a senior defense official said Friday.
The Ukrainian Defense Ministry told RIA Novosti in mid-July that Moscow had officially informed Kiev that it will not use the Nitka site in 2013.
“There are other countries that are showing some interest in using Nitka. These are India, China and others,” Ukrainian Deputy Defense Minister Volodymyr Mozharovskiy said.
No agreements have been reached with those nations to that effect yet, he said, adding that Russia has not officially ruled out operating the Nitka facility in future, and Ukrainian-Russian negotiations on the issue are ongoing.
In March, Ukrainian First Deputy Defense Minister Oleksandr Oleinik said Ukraine, which does not operate fixed-wing shipborne naval aircraft, was considering leasing out the Nitka training site to other countries.
Under a 1997 bilateral agreement, Russia has occasionally used Nitka, currently the only land-based training facility for its carrier-based fixed-wing pilots.
In May, Russian Navy Commander Admiral Viktor Chirkov said a new Russian carrier-deck pilot training site near Yeisk, on Russia's Black Sea coast would be ready for operation by next year.
Work on the training facility “is proceeding according to plan,” he said in an interview with RIA Novosti.
The Nitka Center was built in the Soviet era for pilots to practice taking-off and landing from aircraft carrier decks. After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the facility remained under Ukraine’s control.
The center has facilities including a launch pad, a catapult launch device and arrester wires, a glide-path localizer, a marker beacon, and an optical landing system.
India is awaiting delivery of a refurbished Russian aircraft carrier which will operate Russian MiG-29K fighter jets. China only has one carrier, from which naval aircraft were seen operating for the first time last year, and has little experience of fixed-wing naval operations.
Most other aircraft carrier operators either use short take-off/vertical landing (STOVL) aircraft whose crews would not need a facility like Nitka, or have their own such facilities, or use only ships for training.