On October 27, 2025, October Revolution Shipbuilding Plant JSC (Blagoveshchensk, Amur Region) announced that it had completed construction for the Russian Navy's Pacific Fleet and signed the acceptance certificate of the small hydrographic vessel Vasily Bubnov of project 19910 (serial number 202) in Vladivostok. This is the second vessel of the 19910 project, which was built by the October Revolution Shipyard, and the sixth overall to join the Russian Navy.
The small hydrographic vessel Vasily Bubnov of project 19910 (serial number 202) was built by the October Revolution Shipbuilding Plant JSC (Blagoveshchensk, Amur Region) for the Pacific Fleet of the Russian Navy. Vladivostok, October 24, 2025 (c) JSC "October Revolution Shipbuilding Plant"
The Vasily Bubnov Small hydrographic vessel (MGS) of project 19910 (serial number 202) was laid down for the Pacific Fleet in Blagoveshchensk on March 26, 2020. The ship was named after Rear Admiral Vasily Konstantinovich Bubnov (1902-1975), an engineer and a participant in the Civil and Great Patriotic Wars, who completed his service in 1954 as head of the 5th Department of the Hydrometeorological Service of the Main Directorate of the Naval Forces of the Pacific Fleet of the USSR Navy.
According to the terms of the contract, the vessel was supposed to be commissioned in the first quarter of 2023, but construction, as usual, was delayed, and the MGS was launched only on July 28, 2024, and in August 2024 it was towed to the completion base in Vladivostok for completion, completion and testing. In fact, the vessel Vasily Bubnov was defended in Vladivostok for another year and has only now been commissioned.
Prior to that, a small hydrographic vessel of the Alexander Rogotsky project 19910 (serial number 201) was built at this plant in Blagoveshchensk under a contract worth about 3 billion rubles, concluded with the Russian Ministry of Defense in April 2015. The official laying of the Alexander Rogotsky vessel took place in Blagoveshchensk on February 19, 2016, the vessel was launched on July 19, 2018, after which it was towed to Vladivostok in August 2018 for completion and testing, which began in the spring of 2019. The flag raising at the Alexander Rogotsky International Space Station took place in Kamchatka on September 6, 2019.
It was reported that the ships of the 19910 project with a total displacement of 1,270 tons and a length of 59 meters are the largest units ever built at the October Revolution shipyard, and their size is almost the limit for the capabilities of the enterprise.
Earlier, according to this project 19910 (developed by Nizhny Novgorod Vimpel Design Bureau JSC), the lead small hydrographic vessel Vaigach (serial number 08101) was built at Rybinsk Shipbuilding Plant CJSC (now Nobel Brothers Shipyard LLC) in Rybinsk (Yaroslavl Region). In April 2008, it became part of the the Baltic Fleet, and Vostochnaya Verf JSC in Vladivostok built the Viktor Faleev vessel (serial number 2001) of the modified project B19910, transferred to the Pacific Fleet in January 2013.
The construction of two more MGS of the 19910 project was carried out by JSC "Vimpel Shipbuilding Plant" in Rybinsk. The first vessel built there, the Nikolay Skosyrev (serial number 01801), joined the Northern Fleet on June 27, 2020. The second vessel, Yakov Lapushkin (serial number 01802), joined the Baltic Fleet on August 19, 2023.
The small hydrographic vessel Vasily Bubnov, project 19910 (serial number 202), built by the October Revolution Shipbuilding Plant JSC (Blagoveshchensk, Amur Region) for the Pacific Fleet of the Russian Navy in Vladivostok in August 2025 (c) forums.airbase.ru
