As reported on the web resource forums.airbase.ru, On November 11, 2023, in St. Petersburg at Almaz Shipbuilding Company JSC, a flag-raising ceremony was held for border ships, boats and support vessels on the 2nd-rank border patrol ship Podolsk of project 22120 (code "Blizzard") with factory number 058 (onboard number "458"), which became part of the Coast Guard of the Border Service of the FSB of the Russian Federation. It became the ninth ship in the series of project 22120.
Commissioned by the Border Service of the FSB of Russia, the ninth border patrol ship Podolsk of project 22120 (factory number 058) was built at PJSC Almaz Shipbuilding Company. Saint Petersburg, 11.11.2023 (c) Curious / forums.airbase.ru
The Podolsk was launched at the Almaz SF on May 20, 2023. Podolsk became the first ship of the 22120 project to receive armament - in the form of a 30-mm six-barreled AK-306 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 the place of permanent basing 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, seven 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), "Ladoga" (factory number 056, commissioned on September 29, 2021) and PPK-831 (factory number 057, commissioned on September 30, 2022, according to some reports, the ship was to be named "Roman Chemeryuk", but there is no exact information about the assignment of this name to him).
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. PPK-831 arrived at its base in Nakhodka on October 2, 2023. According to one of the reports, the Podolsk PKK is planned to be based on Shikotan in the Kuril Islands.
At the stage of preparation for commissioning at SF Almaz, there is the tenth Ufa PPK of project 22120 with the factory number 059 (tail number "459"), launched on June 17, 2023. It is reported that two more ships of project 22120 with factory numbers 060 and 061 are under construction at the enterprise, on which, perhaps, the construction of the series will be completed.
