As reported, on the night of May 20, 2022, the heavy aircraft carrier Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Kuznetsov project 11435 of the Russian Navy was put into a new dry dock of the 35 Ship Repair Plant branch of the Zvezdochka Ship Repair Center JSC (as part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation JSC) in Murmansk to undergo dock repairs.
Heavy aircraft carrier [i]"Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Kuznetsov" project 11435 of the Russian Navy in the new dry dock of the branch "35 ship repair Plant" JSC "Ship Repair Center "Zvezdochka" (as part of JSC "United Shipbuilding Corporation") in Murmansk, 05/20/2022 (c) Pavel Lviv / RIA Novosti[/i]
This was confirmed to RIA Novosti by Alexey Rakhmanov, General Director of the United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC). "The operation to dock the Kuznetsov has been completed successfully," Rakhmanov said. According to him, this operation was planned to be carried out on May 14-15. "However, a strong wind rose up to 17 meters per second, so we decided to postpone the operation until more favorable weather," explained the head of USC.
The docking of the Admiral Kuznetsov, according to earlier reports, will be carried out until September 2022.
In April 2018, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation signed a contract with USC to carry out medium repairs and limited modernization of the aircraft carrier Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Kuznetsov with completion in 2021. Since the fall of 2018, the cruiser has been located in the branch "35 ship repair Plant" of JSC "Ship Repair Center "Zvezdochka". Due to the delay in work, including the delay in rebuilding the dry dock at the 35th SRZ, in May 2021, the USC leadership named the end of 2023 as the new deadline for the transfer of the ship to the fleet after repairs.
The reconstruction of the dry dock of the 35th SRZ for the Admiral Kuznetsov docking there was mostly completed in the spring of 2022. Reconstruction according to the project approved back in 2016, consists in rebuilding two old adjacent dry docks of the plant (one with a length of 187 m and a width of 28 m at the top, and the other with a length of 236 m and a width of 30.8 m at the top, both docks have a width of 22 m at the bottom) into one large dock by demolishing the partition between them. Work is also being carried out on the modernization of 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 to receive 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) construction dry dock with a length of 485 m and a width of 114 m .
The implementation of the project of rebuilding the dry docks of the 35th SRZ into one large dock, which had been discussed for a long time in shipbuilding circles, became 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 its contract with I.I.S. and in the summer of 2020, it 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).
By now, the new dock was separated from the sea area by a temporary bridge, which was demolished to place the heavy aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov of the Fleet of the Soviet Union in it. After the ship is docked, the temporary bridge will be restored and the dock will be drained. 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 JSC "Production Association "Northern Machine-Building Enterprise" in Severodvinsk.
Heavy aircraft carrier [i]"Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Kuznetsov" project 11435 of the Russian Navy in the new dry dock of the branch "35 ship repair Plant" JSC "Ship Repair Center "Zvezdochka" (as part of JSC "United Shipbuilding Corporation") in Murmansk, 05/20/2022 (c) Alexander Loginov, Anna Savicheva, Svyatoslav Ivanov / severpost.ru[/i]
Heavy aircraft carrier [i]"Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Kuznetsov" project 11435 of the Russian Navy in the new dry dock of the branch "35 ship repair plant" JSC "Ship Repair Center "Zvezdochka" (as part of JSC "United Shipbuilding Corporation") in Murmansk, 05/20/2022 (c) Telegram channel "Arctic Observer - Murmansk"[/i]
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