It is reported that on June 10, 2025, PJSC Almaz Shipbuilding Company in St. Petersburg launched the Kholmsk 2nd rank border patrol ship of project 22120 (code "Blizzard") with factory number 061 (tail number "461"), which is being built for the Coast Guard of the FSB Border Guard Service. Russia. This is the twelfth and, apparently, the last ship of project 22120.
The twelfth Kholmsk border patrol ship of project 22120 (serial number 061), which is being built for the Border Guard Service of the FSB of Russia, was launched at PJSC Almaz Shipbuilding Company. Saint Petersburg, 06/11/2025 (c) Curious / forums.airbase.ru
This project is 22120 (code "Blizzard") It was originally developed by PKB Petrobalt LLC as a large customs vessel commissioned by the Federal Customs Service of the Russian Federation (FCS RF) on assignment in 2005. After the Federal Customs Service of the Russian Federation rejected this project in 2009, the project continued to be funded by the Border Guard Service of the FSB of Russia, and initially the units of Project 22120 were classified in the Border Guard Service as border patrol vessels (BPS), and since 2018 as border patrol ships (BPC) of the 2nd rank, but periodically even They are sometimes officially referred to as border patrol vessels. The project was finalized for the needs of the Border Guard Service under the auspices of ZAO Spetsstroyproekt (Moscow).
The lead patrol vessel of project 22120 with serial number 050 was laid down at JSC Almaz Marine Plant (currently the Vasileostrovsky site of SF Almaz PJSC) initially for the Federal Customs Service of the Russian Federation on June 25, 2006 and, after completion, became part of the Coast Guard of the Border Guard Service of the FSB of Russia on April 29, 2011. like PS-581. In the fall of 2011, the vessel moved by the Northern Sea Route to its permanent base in Nevelsk on Sakhalin, then it was renamed PPS-824, then PS-824, and in July 2017 it was named Rear Admiral E.S. Kolchin.
Following him, since 2011, ten more patrol ships of this project have been built at SF Almaz under various contracts for the Coast Guard of the Border Guard Service of the FSB of Russia, which differ slightly from each other - the Rear Admiral Dianov (originally PS-825, serial number 051, commissioned on July 5 2013), Kamchatka (factory number 052, commissioned on November 23, 2018) , Transbaikalia (factory number 053, commissioned in July 2019), Taimyr (factory number 054, commissioned on July 10, 2020), Admiral Ugryumov (serial number 055, commissioned on August 16, 2021), Ladoga (serial number 056, commissioned on September 29, 2021), PPK-831 (serial number 057, commissioned on September 30, 2022, according to some reports, the ship was to be named Roman Chemeryuk, but there is no information about assigning this name to it), Podolsk (factory number 058, commissioned on November 11, 2023), Ufa (factory number 059, commissioned on December 29, 2023) and Sakhalin (factory number 060, commissioned on December 18, 2024).
The last four ships of the series, starting with Podolsk, received armament in the form of a 30-mm AK-306 six-barrel artillery mount on the forecastle.
Currently, the PPK Rear Admiral Kolchin E.S., Rear Admiral Dianov and Admiral Ugryumov are based at Nevelsk on Sakhalin, Kamchatka, Transbaikalia, Taimyr and Ufa at Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky on Kamchatka, Podolsk at Shikotan on Kuril Islands, and PPK-831 - Nakhodka. The Ladoga NPP is based in Murmansk, while the Sakhalin NPP remains in the Baltic with a temporary base in Vysotsk. The Kholmsk Military industrial complex, as the name suggests, is also apparently planned to be based on Sakhalin.
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Launching from a floating dock at PJSC Almaz Shipbuilding Company of the twelfth Kholmsk border patrol ship project 22120 (serial number 061), which is being built for the Border Guard Service of the FSB of Russia. Saint Petersburg, 06/10/2025 (c) Curious / forums.airbase.ru
