On March 31, 2022, the launch ceremony of the large diesel-electric submarine B-588 Ufa (factory number 01617), which is under construction for the Navy of the Russian Federation, took place in St. Petersburg at Admiralty Shipyards JSC (part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation JSC - USC JSC). project 06363. This is the fourth of six Project 06363 submarines being built for the Pacific Fleet.
Launched at Admiralty Shipyards JSC, the large diesel-electric submarine B-588 Ufa (factory number 01617) of project 06363 is being built for the Pacific Fleet of the Russian Navy. Saint Petersburg, 31.03.2022 (c) Alexey Akentiev
The launching ceremony was attended by Georgy Poltavchenko, Chairman of the Board of Directors of JSC USC, Alexander Beglov, Governor of St. Petersburg, and Admiral Alexander Nosatov, Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Navy, First Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy.
Submarine "Ufa was taken out of the workshop to the Luga launching floating dock, and then on the same day on March 31 it was taken out of the dock into the water and put to the mooring wall of the Admiralty shipyards. It is reported that currently the readiness of the ship is almost 90%. After placing the Ufa to the berthing wall of JSC Admiralty Shipyards, the company will begin mooring tests of the submarine.
On the part of bmpd, we recall that the contract for the construction of a series of six large diesel-electric submarines of project 06363 for the Pacific Fleet of the Russian Navy between the Ministry of Defense of Russia and JSC Admiralty Shipyards was signed on September 7, 2016 within the framework of the International Military-Technical Forum "Army-2016". Under the terms of the contract, the first ship was to be delivered to the customer by November 25, 2019, the construction of the entire series is scheduled to be completed in 2022.
Previously, Admiralty Shipyards built six Project 06363 submarines for the Black Sea Fleet under contracts in 2010 and 2011, commissioned by the Russian Navy in 2014-2016. Project 06363 was developed by JSC "TSKB MT "Rubin" (St. Petersburg) and is a modernization of projects 877 and 636.
The laying of the first two boats B-274 Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and B-603 Volkhov (factory numbers, respectively, 01614 and 01615) of project 06363 for the Pacific Fleet was carried out at Admiralty Shipyards on July 28, 2017. The lead boat B-274 Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky was launched on March 28, 2019, entered factory sea trials on August 16, 2019 and was handed overThe Russian Navy in the contract period of November 25, 2019.
The second boat B-603 "Volkhov" was launched on December 26, 2019, entered factory sea trials on July 18, 2020 and was handed over to the fleet on October 24, 2020. Since August 2021, the submarines B-274 Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and B-603 Volkhov, accompanied by the new corvette Gremyashchy of Project 20385, have made an inter-fleet crossing from the Baltic through the Mediterranean Sea, the Suez Canal and the Indian Ocean to the Pacific Fleet base, arriving in Vladivostok on November 30, 2021.
The official laying of the third and fourth submarines B-602 "Magadan" and B-588 "Ufa" (factory numbers, respectively, 01616 and 01617) under this contract was made on November 1, 2019. Submarine "Magadan was launched on March 26, 2021, entered factory sea trials on June 25, 2021 and was commissioned Navy October 12, 2021.
On August 23, 2021, the Admiralty Shipyards JSC held a solemn ceremony of laying the fifth and sixth submarines Mozhaysk (factory number 01618) and Yakutsk (factory number 01619) for this contact.
On August 25, 2020, the Russian Ministry of Defense signed name/news/439124_kontrakty_ministerstva_oborony_rossii_na_postroiku_dvuh_podvodnyh_lodok_proektov_06363_i_677.html " target="_blank" rel="nofollow">contract for the construction of another large submarine of the 06363 project.
Launching ceremony at Admiralty Shipyards JSC of the large diesel-electric submarine B-588 Ufa (factory number 01617) of project 06363, which is being built for the Pacific Fleet of the Russian Navy. Saint Petersburg, 31.03.2022 (c) JSC "United Shipbuilding Corporation"
The large diesel-electric submarine B-588 Ufa (factory number 01617) of project 06363 being built at Admiralty Shipyards JSC for the Pacific Fleet of the Russian Navy in the Luga floating dock and after being removed from the dock at the mooring wall of the enterprise. Saint Petersburg, 31.03.2022 (c) Alexey Akentiev
