The four Kiev-class ships had progressively different equipment fits. An informal generational comparison groups Kiev and Minsk together, treats Novorossiysk as generation 1.5, and calls Baku, later Admiral Gorshkov, generation two. The labels distinguish the initial pair from the two later developments. They describe successive changes within the class rather than four identical sister ships.
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The four Kiev-class ships formed an iterative design sequence
An informal generational comparison distinguishes the original Kiev and Minsk from the intermediate Novorossiysk and the more extensively revised Baku.