Why Kiev and Invincible both fit the through-deck cruiser idea

The Kiev class was formally described as aircraft-carrying or heavy aviation cruisers, although the translation varies and treaty rules governing passage through strategic straits helped make the cruiser label useful. Invincible's connection to the through-deck cruiser idea rests here on an unrecorded recollection: Alex Clarke recalls conversations with his naval-architect father and other constructors about treating the ship as a flagship, station ship, and status-bearing cruiser. He had found no official document using the term, although memoirs used it, and could not independently substantiate those conversations for academic publication. In that account, cruiser roles influenced command facilities, accommodation, and the priority given to different systems. Soviet and British strategic requirements still produced markedly different ships, and the Kiev class entered service first.