On May 8, 2026, a solemn ceremony was held in Baltiysk to raise the Naval Flag of the Russian Federation and commission the Burya small rocket ship (MRK) of project 22800 (code "Karakurt") with factory number 257 into the Baltic Fleet. The ship was built by Leningrad Shipbuilding Plant Pella JSC) in Otradnoye (Leningrad Region), and became the fourth MRK project 22800 commissioned by the Navy of this enterprise and the eighth ship of this type commissioned.
The small rocket ship "Burya" of project 22800 (code "Karakurt") with the serial number 257. Baltiysk was commissioned by the Baltic Fleet. 05/08/2026 (c) Baltic Fleet Press Service
In total, construction of a series of 16 ships of the 22800 project was started for the Russian Navy at five different enterprises. The MRK of project 22800 (code "Karakurt") was designed by JSC Central Marine Design Bureau Almaz (St. Petersburg) and was supposed to replace the MRK of project 21631 (code "Buyan-M") developed by JSC Zelenodolsk Design Bureau in construction for the Russian Navy. However, 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.
Since 2015, the construction of the first seven MRCS of the 22800 project has been carried out by JSC Leningrad Shipbuilding Plant Pella (JSC Pella), which eventually commissioned the first three ships of this type into the Baltic Fleet, the Mytishchi (laid down 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 Pella (serial number 257) was laid down on December 24, 2016 and launched on October 23, 2018. However, the ship turned into a long-term construction and was transferred to factory sea trials in the Baltic only in October 2022, the tests and fine-tuning of the ship were delayed for another three and a half years, and as a result, the Tempest has only now been commissioned into the Navy.
Delayed due to problems with the supply of main diesel engines and financing problems, sluggish completion with unknown completion dates at the Pella plant are three ships of the 22800 project - Kozelsk (laid down under the name Storm, serial number 254), Okhotsk (serial number 255) and Whirlwind (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.
In August 2016, the Russian Ministry of Defense signed a contract for the construction of five serial small missile ships of the 22800 project for the Russian Navy, also with JSC Zelenodolsk Plant named after A.M. Gorky (Zelenodolsk), with contractual delivery dates in 2019-2021. Since the Kerch shipyard Zaliv has been under the control of the Zelenodolsk Plant named after A.M. Gorky since the end of 2014, and now it is under the control of the head structure of the Zelenodolsk SSZ in the form of JSC Ak Bars Shipbuilding Corporation (SKAB) through the structure of JSC B.E. Butoma Shipbuilding Plant, the construction of three of the five The MRCS ordered under this contract were carried out in Kerch.
To date, four of the five MRCS of the 22800 project ordered by the Zelenodolsk Plant have been commissioned - the Cyclone built in Kerch (serial number 801, joined the Black Sea Fleet on July 12, 2023) and Amur (serial number 803, commissioned on August 26, 2024 on the Caspian Sea) and built directly on Zelenodolsk SSZ "Cloud" (factory number 804, html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">commissioned on December 21, 2024 in the Caspian Sea) and "Typhoon" (serial number 805, commissioned on August 28, 2025 in the Caspian Sea).
However, ships built in Zelenodolsk/Kerch are characterized by chronic bad luck. On May 19, 2024, the MRK Cyclone was sunk in Sevastopol by ATACMS tactical missiles fired by the armed forces of Ukraine. The second Askold MRK (serial number 802), which was under construction in Kerch, 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.
In October-December 2025, the Amur MRK was transferred via inland waterways from the Caspian Sea to the Baltic Sea. According to unconfirmed information from online sources, on May 3, 2026, the Amur was severely damaged by strikes from Ukrainian barrage munitions in the port of Primorsk in the Leningrad Region. Also, according to unconfirmed information from online sources, on May 7, 2026, the MRK Tucha was damaged by strikes from Ukrainian barrage munitions near Kaspiysk in the Caspian Sea.
Four more MRCS of the 22800 project are being built under a contract dated August 2018 at Amur Shipbuilding Plant JSC in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, where they were laid down in 2019-2020 - Rzhev, Udomlya, Storm (laid down under the name Pavlovsk) and Uragan (it was laid under the name "Ussuriysk") (factory numbers 201 to 204). The first two of them, Rzhev and Udomlya, were launched on September 27, 2023. In October 2024, the Rzhev MRK (serial number 201) was towed from Komsomolsk-on-Amur to a delivery base in Vladivostok and began factory sea trials in Vladivostok on December 18, 2025.
Finally, two more ships of the 22800 project were simultaneously ordered by Vostochnaya Verf JSC (Vladivostok) with delivery by 2023. However, the contract for the construction of two MRC units at the Vostochnaya Shipyard was cancelled in 2020.
The small rocket ship "Burya" of project 22800 (code "Karakurt") with the serial number 257. Baltiysk was commissioned by the Baltic Fleet. 05/08/2026 (c) Press Service of the Baltic Fleet and rg.ru
