As reported, on May 20, 2023, the border patrol ship of the 2nd rank Podolsk of project 22120 (code "Blizzard") with the alleged factory number 058 (tail number "458"), which is under construction, was launched at PJSC Shipbuilding Firm Almaz in St. Petersburg, traditionally without much publicity. for the Coast Guard of the Border Service of the FSB of Russia. This is the ninth ship of the 22120 project, and neither the order of this unit nor the start of its construction was previously publicly reported.
Launched at PJSC Shipbuilding Firm Almaz, the ninth border patrol ship Podolsk of project 22120 (presumed factory number 058) is being built for the Border Service of the FSB of Russia. Saint Petersburg, 20.05.2023 (c) Curious / forums.airbase.ruPodolsk became the first ship of the 22120 project to receive armament - in the form of a 30-mm six-barreled AK-630 artillery mount on the tank.
Recall that this project is 22120 (code "Blizzard") It was originally developed by PKB Petrobalt LLC as a large customs vessel by order of the Federal Customs Service of the Russian Federation (FCS of the Russian Federation) on the assignment of 2005. After the refusal of the Federal Customs Service of the Russian Federation in 2009 from this project, the financing of the project continued from the Border Service of the FSB of Russia, and initially the units of the project 22120 were classified in the Border Service as border patrol vessels (PPS), and since 2018 - as border patrol ships (PPK) of the 2nd rank, but periodically even officially sometimes referred to as border patrol vessels. The revision of the project for the needs of the Border Service was carried out under the auspices of CJSC "Spetsstroyproekt" (Moscow).
The lead patrol vessel of Project 22120 with the factory number 050 was laid down at the Almaz Marine Plant OJSC (currently the Vasileostrovskaya Site of SF Almaz PJSC) initially for the Federal Customs Service of the Russian Federation on June 25, 2006 and after completion for a new customer, it became part of the Coast Guard of the Border Service of the FSB of Russia on April 29, 2011 like PS-581. In the autumn of 2011, by the Northern Sea Route, the vessel moved to its permanent base in Nevelsk on Sakhalin, then it was renamed PPS-824, then PS-824, and in July 2017 it received the name "Rear Admiral Kolchin E.S.".Following him, since 2011, to date, six more patrol ships of this project have been built at SF Almaz under various contracts for the Coast Guard of the Border Service of the FSB of Russia, somewhat different from each other - Rear Admiral Dianov (originally PS-825, factory number 051, commissioned on July 5 2013), "Kamchatka" (factory number 052, commissioned on November 23, 2018), "Transbaikalia" (factory number 053, commissioned in July 2019), "Taimyr" (factory number 054, commissioned on July 10, 2020), "Admiral Ugryumov" (factory number 055, commissioned on August 16, 2021) and Ladoga (factory number 056, commissioned on September 29, 2021).
Currently, the PPK "Rear Admiral Kolchin E.S.", "Rear Admiral Dianov" and "Admiral Ugryumov" are based on Nevelsk on Sakhalin, and "Kamchatka", "Transbaikalia" and "Taimyr" are based on Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky on Kamchatka. PPK Ladoga is based in Murmansk, where it arrived on August 25, 2022.
The eighth ship in the project 22120 PPK-831 series (factory number 057) was launched by SF Almaz on April 26, 2022, the flag was raised on it [...] on September 30, 2022. It was reported that the ship was to be named "Roman Chemeryuk", but there is no exact information about the assignment of this name to it. According to known data, the ship still remains in the Baltic.
Now the ninth patrol ship of this type "Podolsk" with the alleged factory number 058 has been launched. Now the tenth ship of this project "Ufa" (alleged factory number 059) is also being built at SF Almaz, which is also scheduled to be launched in 2023.
