As the press service of the Western Military District reported, on December 21, 2023, the large diesel-electric submarine B-587 Velikiye Luki (factory number 01572), which is the third submarine of project 677 (code "Lada") and built at JSC Admiralty Shipyards, entered the Baltic Sea for factory sea trials (part of JSC United Shipbuilding Corporation - USC) in St. Petersburg.
The large diesel-electric submarine B-587 Velikiye Luki (factory number 01572) of project 677 (code "Lada"), built at JSC Admiralty Shipyards for the Russian Navy, is entering factory sea trials. St. Petersburg, 12/21/2023 (c) Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation
The third submarine of project 677 with the serial number 01572 was laid down at JSC Admiralty Shipyards on November 10, 2006 under the name B-587 Sevastopol. In 2009, by decision of the Russian Ministry of Defense, the construction of the second and third (Kronstadt and Sevastopol) The ships of Project 677 were suspended until the transfer to trial operation of the lead submarine of project 677 B-585 St. Petersburg. In October 2013, the name "Sevastopol" was abolished for this boat by order of the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy and transferred to a universal landing ship of the Mistral type ordered in France for the Russian Navy. The contract for the construction of the third submarine of project 677 according to the adjusted technical design was signed by the plant in December 2014. On March 19, 2015, the submarine of project 677 B-587 (serial number 01572) was re-leased to JSC Admiralty Shipyards under the name Velikiye Luki. The ceremony of launching the submarine took place on December 23, 2022.
In July 2017, at the International Naval Salon MVMS-2017 in St. Petersburg, Alexander Buzakov, General Director of Admiralty Shipyards JSC, stated that under the terms of government contracts, the delivery of the Kronstadt and Velikiye Luki submarines to the Russian Navy is scheduled for 2020 and 2021, respectively. Now the deadline for the delivery of the Velikiye Luki boat is already 2024.
The development of a new generation non-nuclear submarine of Project 677 (project 06770, code "Lada") has been carried out by JSC TSKB MT Rubin since the early 1980s. The lead submarine of project 677 B-585 Saint Petersburg (serial number 01570) was laid down at JSC Admiralty Shipyards on December 26, 1997. However, the construction of the boat took a long time and it was launched only on October 28, 2004 and entered factory sea trials in 2007. On April 22, 2010, the St. Petersburg submarine was accepted by the Russian Navy, but then it was in pilot operation in the Northern Fleet for more than a decade, and only on September 21, 2021, it was commissioned into the Navy. In April 2020, the boat moved back to the Baltic Sea, where it is located in Kronstadt awaiting repair and modernization. In April 2023, it was reported that the Navy intended to write off the St. Petersburg submarine due to the inexpediency of its modernization.
The second submarine of project 677 B-586 Kronstadt (serial number 01571) was laid down at JSC Admiralty Shipyards on July 28, 2005. In 2009, by decision of the Russian Ministry of Defense, the construction of the second and third (Kronstadt and Sevastopol) The ships of Project 677 were suspended until the transfer to trial operation of the lead submarine of project 677 B-585 St. Petersburg. The state contract for the resumption of construction of the B-586 Kronstadt submarine according to the adjusted technical design was signed in July 2013. The Kronstadt submarine was eventually launched at Admiralty Shipyards JSC on September 20, 2018, and entered factory sea trials only on December 17, 2021. In December 2022, its State trials began, but the boat has not yet been commissioned.
Following the completion of the Kronstadt, the Russian Navy attempted to resume serial construction of submarines according to the modified project 677. In June 2019, within the framework of the International Military-Technical Forum "Army-2019", a contract was signed between the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation and JSC Admiralty Shipyards for the construction of the fourth and fifth submarines of Project 677 for the Russian Navy. Their laying under the names Vologda (factory number 01573) and Yaroslavl (factory number 01574) was carried out at JSC Admiralty Shipyards on June 12, 2022. However, in December 2023, the order of the Director General of the Admiralty Shipyards referred to the actual suspension of work on these boats "due to lack of funding."
On August 25, 2020, within the framework of the International Military-Technical Forum "Army 2020", the Russian Ministry of Defense signed a contract for the construction of another submarine of project 677, which thereby should become the sixth unit of this type.
In November 2018, the then Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy, Admiral Vladimir Korolev, stated that it was planned to mass-build for the Navy "at least 12 units of the latest Lada-type diesel-electric submarines."