Decommissioned Russian aircraft carrier Kiev docks at Tianjin's Nanjiang Wharf August 29, 2000. China's Tianma Shipbreaking Company paid the Russian navy 70 million yuan ($8.4 million) for the Kiev, retired five years ago after 20 years of service. The 273 metre-long and 53 metre-wide aircraft carrier, arrived with its power, weapons and communication systems dismantled, will be disassembled and sold as scrap metal.
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