According to the press service of the Southern Military District, on July 30, 2022, celebrations were held at the Novorossiysk Naval Base (NVMB) to receive the new patrol ship "Sergey Kotov" (factory number 164) of project 22160 into the ship's composition of the Black Sea Fleet. Recall that earlier it was reported that in fact, the measures for the commissioning of the patrol ship "Sergey Kotov" by the Navy took place in early May 2022 in Sevastopol without publicity in the conditions of an ongoing special military operation.
The ceremony of the official commissioning of the Black Sea Fleet patrol ship "Sergey Kotov" (factory number 164) project 22160. In the background, there is a similar patrol ship "Dmitry Rogachev" (factory number 162) at the pier. Novorossiysk, 30.07.2022 (c) Kerchinfo
The patrol ship "Sergey Kotov" (factory number 164) is the fourth ship of the project 22160 built for the Russian Navy, and the second built at LLC Shipbuilding Plant "Gulf" in Kerch.
The project 22160 patrol ship was developed by JSC "Northern Design Bureau" (St. Petersburg). The construction of the patrol ship "Sergey Kotov" (factory number 164) was carried out at LLC Shipbuilding Plant "Gulf" in Kerch under the contract concluded by JSC "Zelenodolsk Plant named after A.M. Gorky" (Zelenodolsk) on October 9, 2014 with the Ministry of Defense of Russia for the construction of five serial patrol ships of project 22160 with factory numbers 162, 163, 164, 165 and 166. Including two of these ships ("Pavel Derzhavin" and "Sergey Kotov", factory numbers 163 and 164) were built at LLC Shipbuilding Plant "Gulf", since the end of 2014 under the management of the Zelenodolsk Plant named after A.M. Gorky, and now under the control of the head structure of the Zelenodolsk SSZ in the form of JSC Shipbuilding Corporation "Ak Bars" (group companies of JSC "Holding Company "Ak Bars").
The patrol ship "Sergey Kotov" (factory number 164) was formally laid down at the Zelenodolsk SSZ on May 8, 2016, but was actually built in Kerch, where it was launched on January 29, 2021. Factory sea trials of the patrol ship "Sergey Kotov" were launched in Novorossiysk on October 29, 2021, and on December 14, 2021, the ship made the transition to Sevastopol.
Earlier, a patrol ship was built in the same way in Kerch "Pavel Derzhavin" (factory number 163), which was formally laid down at the Zelenodolsk SSZ on February 18, 2016. It was launched on February 21, 2019. In early April 2020 "Pavel Derzhavin" was towed from Kerch to Novorossiysk to undergo a test program. Factory sea trials of the ship were started on July 22, 2020, and on November 27, 2020 "Pavel Derzhavin" was commissioned The Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Navy.
At the Zelenodolsk plant itself, the last two patrol ships "Viktor the Great" (factory number 165, laid down on November 25, 2016) and "Nikolai Sipyagin" (factory number 166, laid down on January 13, 2018) are in the slipway stage of construction. The contract deadline for the delivery of ships with factory numbers 162, 163 and 164 was 2018, and with factory numbers 165 and 166 - 2019, but as a result, the deadlines went significantly "to the right". All six ships of Project 22160 are intended for the Black Sea Fleet.
To date, the Zelenodolsk SSZ itself has handed over the first two ships of the 22160 project. Under a contract with the Russian Ministry of Defense dated April 11, 2014, he carried out the construction of the lead patrol ship of project 22160 "Vasily Bykov" (factory number 161). In fact, this ship was laid down in Zelenodolsk on February 26, 2014. The Vasily Bykov was launched on August 28, 2017, and on November 8, 2017, it was towed to the Zaliv shipyard in Kerch for completion and completion. Upon completion of the work, on March 25, 2018, the Vasily Bykov was towed from Kerch to Novorossiysk, where it began factory sea trials on May 8, 2018, and upon completion of State Tests, it was transferred to the Black Sea Fleet on December 20, 2018.
The second patrol ship in the series (and the first under contract from October 2014) "Dmitry Rogachev" (factory number 162) was laid down in Zelenodolsk on July 25, 2014, launched there at the end of 2017, and in August 2018 towed to Novorossiysk, where in September 2018 began factory sea trials. The ship was commissioned into the Russian Navy on June 11, 2019.
Video: