At the 13th Ship Repair Plant of the Black Sea Fleet, it was previously reported that Alrosa is planned to be returned to the fleet after November 2021
TASS, June 26. The oldest submarine of the Black Sea Fleet, Alrosa, can be sent to the Baltic Fleet after repair, a military source told TASS.
"Presumably, the boat will be prepared for relocation to the Baltic Fleet," the agency interlocutor said.
Earlier, at the 13th Ship Repair Plant of the Black Sea Fleet, TASS reported that it is planned to return the submarine to the combat fleet after November 2021. Currently, the dock stage of repair has been completed, the submarine has been transferred to the berth in the Kilen Bay of Sevastopol.
Alrosa was built in the city of Gorky (now Nizhny Novgorod) at the Krasnoe Sormovo plant shortly before the collapse of the USSR and belonged to the experimental project 877. Its peculiarity was that instead of a screw, a water-jet propulsion was installed, providing the most secretive movement. For this, a submarine with water-jet propulsion is called a "black hole" abroad. Shortly after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Alrosa remained the only combat-ready submarine of the Russian Federation on the Black Sea.
According to the press service of the Black Sea Fleet, in the period from 2014 to 2017, the Black Sea Fleet was replenished with six new diesel submarines of the project 636.3-carriers of the Kalibr cruise missile complex.