The first group of pilots of the Northern Fleet deck aviation has flown from the Admiral Kuznetsov carrier to the base in the Murmansk Region.

Among them – the crews of 3 MiG-29K and one Su-33 aircraft as well as 3 helicopters Ka-52, Ka-29 and Ka-27.

Since November 8, 2016, the carrier group of the Northern Fleet consisting of the carrier Admiral Kuznetsov, nuclear missile ship Peter the Great and Vice-Admiral Kulakov as well as the ships of the Black Sea Fleet, auxiliary vessels and over 40 aircraft carried out antiterrorist tasks in Syria.

Within two months, the pilots performed 420 combat sorties among them 117 night ones, as well as 750 sorties for search-and-rescue tasks. Nearly all flights were carried out in difficult weather conditions. Over 1000 terrorist objects were hit.