The Prince Oleg submarine missile carrier, built on Sevmash and accepted into the Navy in December 2021, left the place of its birth and went to the temporary base for the Northern Fleet.
This transition is planned, expected and necessary in order for the crew of a strategic missile cruiser to fully master the skills of managing it, work out and pass the training and course tasks necessary to enter the ship and crew into the permanent readiness forces.
According to the "RG" on Sevmash, the company's specialists took part in preparing the ship for the winter transition to the Northern Fleet, where the crew under the command of Igor Golubev is already waiting, and the berth was vacated.
"There is a lot of work ahead to work out combat training tasks," the shipyard's press service quotes the commander as saying. - There are servicemen in the crew who have already served on the ships of the fourth generation of the Borey project. And the "Prince Oleg" is the most modern of them, the cruiser has enormous capabilities for control, the use of weapons, and other indicators."
Recall that the raising of the St. Andrew's flag on the cruiser took place on December 21, 2021.
On this day, two fourth-generation submarines were transferred to the Russian Navy at once: the Prince Oleg submarine with ballistic missiles (the Borey-A project) and the Novosibirsk multipurpose nuclear submarine (the Yasen-M project). The ceremony was held in the format of a videoconference with Russian President Vladimir Putin. And then the Supreme Commander-in-Chief openly declared that both submarines would be based and serve in the Pacific Ocean.
The inter-fleet transfer from the Kola Peninsula to Kamchatka of these two submarines can be expected in late summer - early autumn.
But the interlocutors of "RG", who have experience of service on such and similar ships, do not exclude that the order for relocation may come earlier. We will not guess anything, but only wish "Prince Oleg" to successfully complete the transition that has already begun. And so that the Novosibirsk did not linger in the factory water area, but followed the Prince Oleg to his own along the prescribed route.
Alexander Emelianenkov
