Two ships in the Soviet Navy have been named "Varyag" after the Varangian people, the Viking ancestors of the Rus.
*, a Kynda-class missile cruiser completed in 1965, and decommissioned in 1990.
*, a never-finished "Admiral Kuznetsov"-class heavy aircraft carrying cruiser launched by the Soviet Navy in 1988, transferred incomplete to Ukraine in 1992, and sold to China in 1998.
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