It is reported that on December 29, 2023, in Vysotsk on the Baltic Sea, a flag-raising ceremony was held for border ships, boats and support vessels on the border patrol ship of the 2nd rank Ufa of project 22120 (code "Blizzard") with factory number 059 (tail number "459"), which became part of the Coast Guard of the Border Service The FSB of the Russian Federation.The ship was built at Almaz Shipbuilding Company JSC in St. Petersburg and became the tenth ship in the series of Project 22120. Ufa will move to the Pacific Ocean and will be based at Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.
The tenth Ufa border patrol ship of project 22120 (factory number 059) was built at PJSC Almaz Shipbuilding Company for the Border Service of the FSB of Russia. Saint Petersburg, 11.11.2023 (c) Curious / forums.airbase.ru
The launch of the Ufa ship was carried out at SF Almaz on June 17, 2023. Ufa became the second ship of the 22120 project, commissioned a little earlier in 2023, after Podolsk, which received 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 commissioned by the Federal Customs Service of the Russian Federation (FCS of the Russian Federation) on assignment in 2005. After the refusal of the Federal Customs Service of the Russian Federation in 2009 from this project, financing of the project continued from the Border Guard Service of the FSB of Russia, and initially the units of project 22120 were classified in the Border Guard Service as border patrol vessels (PPP), and since 2018 - as border patrol ships (PPK) of the 2nd rank, but periodically even Officially, they are sometimes referred to as border patrol vessels. The completion of the project for the needs of the Border Guard Service was carried out under the auspices of CJSC Spetsstroyproekt (Moscow).
The lead patrol vessel of project 22120 with factory number 050 was laid down at JSC Almaz Marine Plant (currently the Vasileostrovsky site of PJSC SF Almaz) 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 Guard Service of the FSB of Russia on April 29, 2011 like PS-581. In the autumn of 2011, the ship moved by the Northern Sea Route to its permanent base in Nevelsk on Sakhalin, then it was renamed PPS-824, then PS-824, and in July 2017 it was named 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 Guard Service of the FSB of Russia, slightly different from each other - Rear Admiral Dianov (originally PS-825, serial 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), 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 it) and Podolsk (factory number 058, commissioned on November 11, 2023).
Currently, the PPK Rear Admiral Kolchin E.S., Rear Admiral Dianov and Admiral Ugryumov are based at Nevelsk on Sakhalin, and Kamchatka, Transbaikalia and Taimyr are based at Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky on Kamchatka. PPK Ladoga is based in Murmansk. PPK-831 arrived at its base in Nakhodka on October 2, 2023. PPK Podolsk is planned to be based on Shikotan in the Kuril Islands.
It is reported that two more ships of project 22120 with factory numbers 060 and 061 are currently under construction at SF Almaz, on which, perhaps, the construction of the series will be completed.
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Commissioned by the Border Guard Service of the FSB of Russia, the tenth Ufa border patrol ship of project 22120 (factory number 059) was built at PJSC Almaz Shipbuilding Company. Vysotsk, 12/29/2023 (c) "Vesti Bashkortostan"