On November 16, 2022, a solemn ceremony of raising the Naval Flag of Russia on a large diesel-electric submarine B-588 Ufa (factory number 01617) of project 06363 took place in St. Petersburg at JSC Admiralty Shipyards (part of JSC United Shipbuilding Corporation - USC). This is the fourth Project 06363 submarine commissioned by the Russian Navy out of six units ordered for the Pacific Fleet. The ceremony was attended by the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy, Admiral Nikolai Evmenov.
The large diesel-electric submarine B-588 Ufa (factory number 01617) of project 06363, built at JSC Admiralty Shipyards, was commissioned into the Russian Navy. Saint Petersburg, 16.11.2022 (c) JSC "Admiralty Shipyards"The submarine B-588 Ufa (factory number 01617) was laid down at JSC Admiralty Shipyards on November 1, 2019, its launching ceremony was performed on March 31, 2022.
The boat entered factory sea trials on June 25, 2022. [...] [...]
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 was planned to be completed in 2022.
Previously, Admiralty shipyards under contracts of 2010 and 2011 built six submarines of the 06363 project for the Black Sea Fleet, 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 the 06363 project for the Pacific Fleet was carried out at the Admiralty shipyards on July 28, 2017. The B-274 Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky lead boat was launched on March 28, 2019, entered factory sea trials on August 16, 2019 and was delivered to the Russian Navy on 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. The submarine B-602 Magadan was launched on March 26, 2021, entered factory sea trials on June 25, 2021 and was commissioned into the Navy on October 12, 2021. On August 6, 2022, the Magadan submarine left the Baltic for the transition to the Far East, and after passing the Baltic Straits, the Northern and Norwegian Seas, arrived in the Polar, and then made the transition along the Northern Sea Route, arriving on October 9 at the base in Vladivostok and becoming the third boat of project 06363, which became part of TOPH.
On August 23, 2021, a solemn ceremony was held at Admiralty Shipyards JSChtml" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> the ceremony of laying the fifth and sixth submarines Mozhaysk (factory number 01618) and Yakutsk (factory number 01619) under this contract. According to the USC press release dated November 16, 2022, "at present, shipyard workers are carrying out completion work on the Mozhaysk PL. The launch of the ship is scheduled for spring 2023. Hydraulic tests of all the ship's block modules have been completed at the Yakutsk submarine, specialists are carrying out electrical work and insulation of the hull."
On August 25, 2020, the Russian Ministry of Defense signed a contract for the construction of another large submarine of project 06363 (according to preliminary data, it was named Petrozavodsk), and on August 16, 2022, a contract for the construction of three more submarines of project 06363.
The large diesel-electric submarine B-588 Ufa (factory number 01617) of project 06363, built at JSC Admiralty Shipyards, was commissioned into the Russian Navy. Saint Petersburg, 16.11.2022 (c) JSC "Admiralty Shipyards"
