As reported, on August 23, 2025, the K-572 Perm nuclear submarine (serial number 165), completed by the Northern Machine-Building Enterprise Production Association (NSR, part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation - USC), set sail for the first time from Severodvinsk for factory sea trials. the ship of the modified project 08851 (project 885M; code "Ash-M").
The K-572 Perm nuclear submarine cruiser (factory number 165) of the modified project 08851 (code "Yasen-M"), built for the Russian Navy at JSC "Production Association "Northern Machine-Building Enterprise", enters factory sea trials from Severodvinsk, 08/23/2025 (c) VKoshkin / forums.airbase.ru
The official laying of the lead nuclear submarine K-572 Perm (serial number 165) of the modified project 08851 was carried out in Severodvinsk on July 29, 2016. This ship is the fourth of five serial nuclear submarines of Project 08851 (Yasen-M) with serial numbers 162, 163, 164, 165 and 166, which are being built under a contract signed on November 9, 2011 by the Russian Ministry of Defense with JSC United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC). The project was developed by JSC St. Petersburg Marine Engineering Bureau Malachite.
The nuclear submarine Perm was withdrawn from the NSR boathouse on March 27, 2025. At the decommissioning ceremony, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced via videoconference that the Perm had become the first multi-purpose submarine armed with Zircon hypersonic cruise missiles. It is reported that the Perm is intended for the Pacific Fleet.
The lead nuclear-powered submarine of the fourth generation of the Project 885 series (code "Yasen") K-560 Severodvinsk (serial number 160) was laid down at the NSR on December 21, 1993 and handed over to the Russian Navy for trial operation on June 17, 2014.
Further construction of the series is carried out at the NSR according to the upgraded project 08851 (code "Yasen-M"), according to which the first nuclear submarine K-561 Kazan (factory number 161) was laid down on July 24, 2009, which was withdrawn from the NSR workshop on March 31, 2017, and launched on April 8, 2017. She entered factory sea trials on September 24, 2018 and was commissioned into the Russian Navy on May 7, 2021.
As part of the aforementioned 2011 contract, the NSR completed the construction of the first serial nuclear-powered submarine of project 08851 K-573 Novosibirsk (serial number 162), which was laid down on July 26, 2013, decommissioned on December 25, 2019, entered factory sea trials on July 1, 2021 and was commissioned by the Navy. On December 21, 2021, she joined the Pacific Fleet. On September 28, 2022, Novosibirsk, having completed an inter-fleet transfer from the Northern to the Pacific Fleet, arrived at its permanent base in Kamchatka.
The second ship under the 2011 contract, K-571 Krasnoyarsk (serial number 163) of the modified project 08851, was laid down in Severodvinsk on July 27, 2014, decommissioned on July 30, 2021, and entered factory sea trials on June 26, 2022. The Krasnoyarsk joined the Navy on December 11, 2023, and on September 24, 2024, after making an inter-fleet transition from the Northern to the Pacific Fleet, arrived at its permanent base in Kamchatka.
The third ship under this contract, K-562 Arkhangelsk (serial number 164), was laid down in Severodvinsk on March 19, 2015. The ceremony of the Arkhangelsk's withdrawal from the NSR workshop name/news/800678_atomnaya_podvodnaya_lodka_arhangelsk_vyvedena_iz_ceha.html " target="_blank" rel="nofollow">took place on November 29, 2023, and the ship first set sail for factory sea trials on June 11, 2024. On December 27, 2024, Arkhangelsk joined the Northern Fleet of the Russian Navy.
The construction of the Ulyanovsk submarine cruiser (serial number 166), laid down on July 28, 2017, is also continuing under the 2011 contract for the NSR.
In June 2019, the Russian Ministry of Defense signed a contract with USC for the construction of two more serial nuclear-powered submarines of project 08851 (Yasen-M), which were officially laid down at the NSR on July 20, 2020 under the names Voronezh and Vladivostok (factory numbers 167 and 168), with contractual delivery dates. The years 2027 and 2028.
The K-572 Perm nuclear submarine cruiser (serial number 165) of the modified project 08851 (code "Yasen-M"), built for the Russian Navy at JSC "Production Association "Northern Machine-Building Enterprise", enters factory sea trials from Severodvinsk, 08/23/2025 (c) Oleg Kuleshov
The K-572 Perm nuclear submarine cruiser (serial number 165) of the modified project 08851 (code "Yasen-M"), built for the Russian Navy at JSC "Production Association "Northern Machine-Building Enterprise", enters factory sea trials from Severodvinsk, 08/23/2025 (c) VKoshkin / forums.airbase.ru
