According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, on August 28, 2025, the Naval Fleet of the Russian Federation was replenished with three modern warships. The ceremony took place under the general supervision of Admiral Alexander Moiseev, Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy, who gave the command to raise naval flags on ships via videoconference from the Main Admiralty. In Baltiysk, St. Andrew's flags were raised for the first time on the patrol ship Viktor Veliky (serial number 165) of project 22160, built for the Black Sea Fleet, and on the small rocket ship Stavropol (serial number 642) of project 21631, which became part of the Baltic Fleet. A ceremony was also held in Makhachkala on the Caspian Sea to receive the Typhoon small missile ship (serial number 805) of project 22800 into the Black Sea Fleet.
The Stavropol small rocket ship (serial number 642) of project 21631 before the raising of the Naval flag and the commissioning of the Russian Navy. In the background, the patrol ship Viktor Velikiy (serial number 165) of project 22160 is visible being commissioned at the same time. Baltiysk, 08/28/2025 (c) a frame from the video of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation
The Stavropol small missile ship commissioned by the Baltic Fleet became the twelfth and last ship in the series of Project 21631 (code Buyan-M). the designer was JSC Zelenodolsk Design Bureau), and, like all ships of the series, was built in Zelenodolsk by JSC Zelenodolsk Plant named after A.M. Gorky (the enterprise is part of JSC Ak Bars Shipbuilding Corporation of the Ak Bars Holding Company Group of companies). Stavropol is the third and last of three ships built under a 27 billion ruble contract issued by the Russian Ministry of Defense on September 7, 2016 to the Zelenodolsk SSZ for the construction of three more Project 21631 MRCS with serial numbers from 640 to 642 for the Russian Navy. The commissioning of all three ships into the Navy was expected in 2021-2023. MRK Stavropol, with serial number 642, was laid down at the Zelenodolsk Shipyard on July 12, 2018 and launched on June 11, 2024. In August-September 2024, it was towed by inland waterways from Zelenodolsk to Kronstadt for completion, testing and commissioning. On December 23, 2024, Stavropol left Kronstadt for factory sea trials, and now it has been commissioned, becoming the last ship of project 21631 delivered to the fleet.
The lead MRC under this contract, Grad (serial number 640), was laid down in Zelenodolsk on April 24, 2017 and launched on September 17, 2021. In August-September 2022, the MRK Grad was towed by inland waterways from Zelenodolsk to Kronstadt, and on October 12, 2022, it entered the Baltic Sea for the first time for factory sea trials, and the ship was commissioned into the Baltic Fleet on December 29, 2022.
The second MRK under this contract, Naro-Fominsk (serial number 641), was laid down in Zelenodolsk on February 23, 2018 and launched on December 9, 2022. In August 2023, she was towed by inland waterways from Zelenodolsk to Kronstadt and began factory sea trials on October 11, 2023, and was commissioned into the Baltic Fleet on December 25, 2023.
The Zelenodolsk Plant had already handed over nine Project 21631 MRCS to the Russian Navy. The first two MRCS of project 21631, Grad Sviyazhsk and Uglich (serial numbers 631 and 632), built in Zelenodolsk, were commissioned into the Caspian Flotilla of the Russian Navy on July 27, 2014, and the third Veliky Ustyug (serial number 633) was commissioned into the Caspian Flotilla on December 19, 2014. The fourth and fifth MRCS of project 21631, Zeleny Dol (serial number 634) and Serpukhov (serial number 635), were built in Zelenodolsk under a contract dated October 19, 2012 and joined the Black Sea Fleet on December 12, 2015. In October 2016, both of these ships transferred to the Baltic Fleet. On June 1, 2018, the sixth MRK Vyshny Volochek (serial number 636) was introduced into the Black Sea Fleet, on December 10, 2018, the Orekhovo-Zuyevo MRK (serial number 637) was introduced into the Black Sea Fleet, on December 28, 2019, the Ingushetia MRK (serial number 638) was introduced. and on January 30, 2021, the Grayvoron MRK (factory number 639) was introduced.
Commissioned simultaneously on August 28 in Kaspiysk as part of the Black Sea Fleet, the Typhoon small missile ship became the seventh Project 22800 MRK commissioned by the Russian Navy (code "Karakurt", designed by Almaz Central Marine Design Bureau JSC). She is also the fifth and last unit built under the contract signed on August 5, 2016 by the Russian Ministry of Defense with JSC Zelenodolsk Plant named after A.M. Gorky (Zelenodolsk) for the construction of five serial MRCS of Project 22800 for the Russian Navy, and became the second ship of this type, directly built in Zelenodolsk. The construction of the first three of the five MRCS ordered under this contract was carried out in Kerch at the Zaliv shipyard, which has been under the control of JSC Zelenodolsk Plant named after A.M. Gorky since the end of 2014, and is now under the control of the head office of the Zelenodolsk SSZ in the form of JSC Ak Bars Shipbuilding Corporation through the structure of JSC B.E. Butoma Shipbuilding Plant. Initially, the contractual delivery dates for all five ships ordered under this contract were 2019-2021.
Initially, presumably, all five ships of the 22800 project, ordered by the Zelenodolsk SSZ, were intended for the Pacific Fleet. However, according to a statement by the then Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy, Admiral Nikolai Evmenov, at the flag-raising ceremony at the MRK Cyclone on July 12, 2023, all these five ships were transferred to the Black Sea Fleet.
The main MRC of the 22800 Cyclone project (serial number 801) under this contract was laid down without much publicity at the Zaliv shipyard in Kerch on July 26, 2016. The MRK Cyclone was launched in Kerch on July 24, 2020, and in September 2021 the ship was towed from Kerch to Novorossiysk for testing and commissioning. At the end of November 2021, the Cyclone entered factory sea trials, but the ship's testing process dragged on for more than a year and a half. The MRK was eventually accepted into the Navy on July 12, 2023. On May 19, 2024, the Cyclone was sunk in Sevastopol by ATACMS tactical missiles fired by the armed forces of Ukraine.
The second Askold MRK (serial number 802) was laid down in Kerch on November 18, 2016, launched there on September 21, 2021, and entered factory sea trials in October 2022. However, on November 4, 2023, the Askold, which had not yet been commissioned, was severely damaged by a Scalp-EG air cruise missile fired by the armed forces of Ukraine, while standing against the wall of the Zaliv plant in Kerch. The ship is currently undergoing renovation at the Zaliv plant, the end date of which is unknown.
The third Kerch MRK Amur (serial number 803) was laid down on July 30, 2017 and launched on December 26, 2022. Factory sea trials of the ship began in December 2023. After the Ukrainian Armed Forces missile strikes on Kerch, it was decided to transfer all Navy ships under construction from the Black Sea to the Caspian Sea. As a result, in April 2024, the Amur MRC, along with the similar type of the Tucha MRC (factory number 804), were transferred from Novorossiysk via inland waterways to undergo testing and commissioning on the Caspian Sea to Kaspiysk. There, the Amur MRK was commissioned into the Black Sea Fleet on August 26, 2024. Like the later commissioned MRK "Cloud" and now "Typhoon", it can be expected that all three of these ships will remain in the Caspian Sea until the end of hostilities with Ukraine.
The MRK Tucha (serial number 804) was laid down on February 26, 2019 at the Zelenodolsk SSZ, becoming the first ship of the 22800 project, which was actually built in Zelenodolsk. It was launched on June 30, 2023 and towed from Zelenodolsk to Novorossiysk in the fall of 2023, and then in April 2024 to Kaspiysk, where it was launched on December 21, 2024. html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">introduced into the Black Sea Fleet.
On September 11, 2019, the fifth Typhoon MRC (serial number 805) was laid down in Zelenodolsk, which was launched on May 7, 2024. In September 2024, it was also towed by inland waterways from Zelenodolsk to the delivery base in Kaspiysk, and in January 2025 it began factory sea trials in the Caspian Sea. Now the Typhoon in Kaspiysk has also been integrated into the Black Sea Fleet.
The Russian Ministry of Defense initially contracted 18 MRCS of the 22800 project in 2014, but in September 2020 cancelled the contract for two units ordered by Vostochnaya Verf JSC in Vladivostok. Due to the fact that the Project 22800 MRCS are equipped with a main power plant consisting of high-speed M507D-1 diesel engines, the difficulties of PJSC Zvezda (St. Petersburg) in producing these engines in the required volumes led to the fact that the project 22800 series turned into a long-term construction, and the already launched ship hulls have been idle for years. waiting for these engines.
The construction of the first seven MRCS of the 22800 project has been carried out since 2015 by JSC Leningrad Shipbuilding Plant Pella (JSC Pella), which has now commissioned the first three ships of this type into the Baltic Fleet, the Mytishchi (it was laid under the name Uragan, renamed in 2018, serial number 251, commissioned by the Navy on December 17, 2018), Sovetsk (laid down under the name Typhoon, factory number 252, commissioned on October 12, 2019) and Odintsovo (factory number 253, laid down under the name Squall, commissioned on November 21, 2020). The fourth MRK Burya built on the Pella (serial number 257) was transferred to factory sea trials in the Baltic in October 2022, but has not yet been handed over to the Navy.
Three ships of project 22800 - Kozelsk (serial number 254, was laid under the name Storm), Okhotsk (serial number 255) and Whirlwind - are in delayed completion at the Pella plant due to problems with the supply of main diesel engines and financing problems. (factory number 256), - the hulls of which were built at the FSUE "Morye Shipbuilding Plant" in Feodosia (Crimea) and then towed by inland waterways to the Pella for completion in November 2019 - May 2020. According to recent reports, the delivery of these MRCS is now planned to be postponed to 2026-2030.
Four more MRCS of project 22800 are being built at JSC Amur Shipbuilding Plant (ASZ) in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, where they were laid down in 2019-2020 - Rzhev, Udomlya, Storm (laid down under the name Pavlovsk) and Uragan (laid down under the name Ussuriysk") (factory numbers 201 to 204). The first two of them, Rzhev and Udomlya, were launched on September 27, 2023, and in October 2024, the Rzhev MRK was towed from Komsomolsk-on-Amur to a transfer base in Vladivostok.
The ceremony of raising the Naval flag on the Typhoon small missile ship (serial number 805) of project 22800 commissioned into the Black Sea Fleet. Kaspiysk, 08/28/2025 (c) a frame from the video of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation
