As reported, in the branch "35 ship repair plant" JSC "Ship Repair Center "Zvezdochka" (as part of JSC "United Shipbuilding Corporation") in Murmansk, work is being completed on the reconstruction of the dry dock to ensure the possibility of docking the heavy aircraft carrier "Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Kuznetsov" Russian Navy. The dock was filled with water at the end of March.
Work on dismantling the temporary bridge at the reconstructed dry dock at the branch "35 ship repair plant" of JSC "Ship Repair Center "Zvezdochka" (as part of JSC "United Shipbuilding Corporation"). The dock is already filled with water. Murmansk, May 2022 (from) via forums.airbase.ru
According to the published images, the dock is almost ready and the dismantling of the temporary bridge for the installation of the heavy aircraft carrier "Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Kuznetsov" is being completed. After the ship is docked, the temporary bridge will be restored. After the completion of the docking of the cruiser, instead of a temporary bridge in mid-2023, a permanent full-time bathoport (hydraulic gate) will be installed on the dock, the construction of which has begun at the JSC "Production Association "Northern Machine-Building Enterprise" in Severodvinsk.
Two sources in the defense industry complex told the TASS news agency that the heavy aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov of the Fleet of the Soviet Union will dock at the new 35th shipyard during May. Earlier it was reported that the ship's docking is scheduled to be completed in September.
Recall that the reconstruction of the dry dock of the 35th SRZ, according to the project approved back in 2016, consists in the reconstruction of two old adjacent dry docks of the plant (one 187 m long and 28 m wide at the top, and the other 236 m long and 30.8 m wide at the top, both docks are wide at the bottom by 22 m) into one large dock by demolishing the partition between them. Also, work is being carried out to modernize all structures of the hydraulic structure - walls, slipway plate, dock equipment and other things. As a result of the modernization, the second largest dry dock in Russia was created for receiving large vessels and ships, which has a length of 335 m and a width of 60 m at the bottom and 70 m at the top - the larger one is only completed by the end of 2021 at the Zvezda Shipbuilding Complex LLC in Bolshoy Kamen (Primorsky Krai) the construction dry dock is 485 m long and 114 m wide.
The project of rebuilding the dry docks of the 35th SRZ into one large dock, which has been discussed for a long time in shipbuilding circles, is a solution with relatively moderate costs to the ridiculous situation of the complete absence of a dry dock in the Northern Fleet for docking and repairing large surface warships. The project was put into practice due to the urgent need to dock the only heavy aircraft carrier in the Russian Navy, Admiral Kuznetsov of the Fleet of the Soviet Union, primarily to complete the repair of this ship, which began in 2018, after the sinking of the PD-50 floating dock at the 82nd shipyard on October 30, 2018.
In July 2019, the Zvezdochka Ship Repair Center JSC, part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation JSC (USC), signed a contract worth 23.9 billion rubles with the St. Petersburg company Investments. Engineering. Construction" (I.I.S.) for the modernization of the dry dock of the 35th ship repair plant. The main works were planned to be completed during 2020, with the commissioning of the cruiser Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Kuznetsov in a new dock in June 2021. However, from the very beginning, the reconstruction began to be delayed due to disagreements between the customer and the contractor and problems with the project documentation. On March 31, 2020, USC terminated the contract with I.I.S. and in the summer of 2020 transferred the contract for the reconstruction of the dock to a new general contractor - JSC "Orgenergostroy Institute" (Moscow, a major contractor for the complex execution of works on the construction of energy and oil and gas facilities).