''Admiral Nakhimov'' () was a Project 1134A of the
Soviet Navy, named for Russian naval commander
Pavel Nakhimov. The third ship of her class, the ship served during the
Cold War
The Cold War is a term commonly used to refer to a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc. The term '' cold war'' is used because the ...
, from 1971 to 1991. She served with the
Northern Fleet for the duration of her career, often operating in the Atlantic and the Mediterranean in order to