Moscow. December 20. INTERFAX - The Nimble corvette, which caught fire last Friday at a factory in St. Petersburg, will be restored after the fire and completed with the replacement of the ship's superstructure.
"The factory services have previously established that due to the installed fire insulation between the superstructure and the deck, the hull of the ship was not damaged. The superstructure is subject to dismantling. There was no equipment in the superstructure. Negotiations are underway with SNSZ JSC on the construction of a new superstructure," Severnaya Verf reported on Monday.
"A commission of representatives of the plant and USC has been set up to assess the damage, and it has started work. It is premature to talk about the causes of the fire. The authorized commission will take several weeks to study the circumstances and determine the cause," the report says.
The Nimble corvette, which is being built for the Pacific Fleet of the Russian Federation at the Severnaya Verf shipyard in St. Petersburg, caught fire last Friday. The fire was finally extinguished on Saturday.
The company previously stated that the total area of the fire was 400 square meters. meters.
On Saturday, it became known that in connection with the fire on the corvette, a criminal case was initiated on the grounds of a crime under Part 1 of Article 216 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (violation of safety rules during construction or other work, if this caused major damage).
There were no weapons on the Nimble corvette under construction, a source in the military-industrial complex told Interfax on Friday. "The ship is being built. There are no weapons or crew on it," the source said.
The Nimble corvette is the second ship of Project 20385.
The lead corvette of the project - "Gremyashchy" has recently strengthened the Pacific Fleet of the Russian Federation. This ship is armed with Kalibr cruise missiles.
The main task of the project ships is to detect and destroy surface targets and submarines, organize amphibious landings, protect the coastal zone and escort other ships. It was reported about plans to arm the ships of project 20385 with hypersonic missiles "Zircon".
