On May 7, 2024 at JSC Zelenodolsk Plant named after A.M. Gorky (as part of JSC Ak Bars Shipbuilding Corporation of the Ak Bars Holding Company Group of companies) A solemn ceremony of simultaneous launching of the patrol ship Viktor Veliky (factory number 165) of project 22160 and the small missile ship Typhoon (factory number 805) of project 22800 (code "Karakurt") under construction for the Navy of the Russian Federation took place in Zelenodolsk. Both ships are intended for the Black Sea Fleet.
The launching ceremony at JSC Zelenodolsk Plant named after A.M. Gorky of the patrol ship Viktor Veliky (factory number 165) of project 22160 (right) and the small missile ship Typhoon (factory number 805) of project 22800 (code "Karakurt") under construction for the Navy of the Russian Federation (left). Zelenodolsk, 05/07/2024 (c) zelenodolsk.tatarstan.ru
The patrol ship Viktor Veliky (factory number 165) is the fifth ship of the project 22160 built for the Russian Navy.
The project 22160 patrol ship was developed by JSC "Northern Design Bureau" (St. Petersburg). In 2014, the Russian Ministry of Defense ordered a total of six patrol ships of this type for the Black Sea Fleet.
The construction of the patrol ship Viktor Veliky (factory number 165) was carried out within the framework of the contract concluded by JSC Zelenodolsk Plant named after A.M. Gorky on October 9, 2014 with the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation for the construction of five serial patrol ships of Project 22160 with factory numbers 162, 163, 164, 165 and 166. ships with factory numbers 162, 163 and 164 were in 2018, and with factory numbers 165 and 166 - 2019.
The patrol ship Viktor Veliky (factory number 165) was laid down at the Zelenodolsk SSZ on November 25, 2016. Also, as part of this contract, the patrol ship Nikolai Sipyagin (factory number 166), laid down on January 13, 2018, is being built in Zelenodolsk.
Earlier, the Zelenodolsk SSZ handed over the first two ships of the 22160 project. Under a contract with the Russian Ministry of Defense dated April 11, 2014, he carried out the construction of the lead patrol ship of project 22160 Vasily Bykov (factory number 161), laid down in Zelenodolsk on February 26, 2014 and transferred to the Black Sea Fleet on December 20, 2018. The second patrol ship in the series (and the first under the contract dated October 2014) "Dmitry Rogachev" (factory number 162) was commissioned by the Russian Navy on June 11, 2019.
Two more ships "Pavel Derzhavin" and "Sergey Kotov" (factory numbers 163 and 164) under the contract dated October 2014 were actually built at LLC "Zaliv Shipbuilding Plant" in Kerch, since the end of 2014 under the management of the Zelenodolsk Plant named after A.M. Gorky, and now as JSC "Shipbuilding Plant named after B.E. Butoma" - under the control of the head structure of the Zelenodolsk GCC in the form of JSC Shipbuilding Corporation Ak Bars (group of companies JSC Holding Company Ak Bars). The patrol ship Pavel Derzhavin (serial number 163) was commissioned into the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Navy on November 27, 2020, and the patrol ship Sergei Kotov (serial number 164) was commissioned on July 30, 2022. On March 5, 2024, the patrol ship Sergei Kotov was sunk by Ukrainian unmanned exploding boats.
The Typhoon small rocket ship (MRK) (factory number 805) became the second ship of the 22800 project (code "Karakurt") actually built at the Zelenodolsk SSZ. The ship is being built under a contract signed on August 5, 2016 by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation with JSC Zelenodolsk Plant named after A.M. Gorky for the construction of five serial MRCS of the 22800 project for the Russian Navy.
The first three serial MRCS under this contract were built in Kerch at LLC "Zaliv Shipbuilding Plant" (now JSC "B.E. Butoma Shipbuilding Plant" under the control of JSC "Ak Bars Shipbuilding Corporation". The main MRK of the 22800 Cyclone project (factory number 801) under this contract was laid down without much publicity at the Zaliv shipyard in Kerch on July 26, 2016 and handed over to the Black Sea Fleet after lengthy tests on July 12, 2023. The second Askold MRK (factory number 802) was laid down in Kerch on November 18, 2016, launched there on September 21, 2021 and entered factory sea trials in October 2022. However, on November 4, 2023, the Askold, which had not yet been commissioned, was severely damaged near the wall of the Zaliv plant in Kerch as a result of a hit by a Scalp-EG aircraft cruise missile fired by the armed forces of Ukraine. Currently, the ship is under repair at the factory, the end date of which is unknown. The third Kerch MRK Amur (factory number 803) was laid down on July 30, 2017 and launched on December 26, 2022. In April 2024, it was transferred from Novorossiysk via inland waterways for testing and commissioning on the Caspian Sea to Kaspiysk. Initially, the contractual deadlines for the delivery of these three Kerch ships were 2019-2020.
On February 26, 2019, the MRK "Cloud" (factory number 804) was laid down at the Zelenodolsk GCC, which became the first ship of the 22800 project, actually built in Zelenodolsk. It was launched on June 30, 2023 and in the autumn of 2023 was towed by inland waterways to Novorossiysk for testing and commissioning. However, the ship was not put into operation there and in April 2024, together with the Amur, it was transferred from Novorossiysk via inland waterways to undergo tests and commissioning to the Caspian Sea in Kaspiysk. On September 11, 2019, the Typhoon MRK (factory number 805), now launched, was laid down in Zelenodolsk. The contract deadline for the delivery of ships with factory numbers 804 and 805 was 2021.
The MRK of project 22800 (cipher "Karakurt") was designed by JSC Central Marine Design Bureau Almaz (St. Petersburg) and was supposed to replace the MRK of project 21631 (cipher "Buyan-M") developed by JSC Zelenodolsk Design Bureau in construction for the Russian Navy. The Russian Ministry of Defense initially contracted 18 MRCS of the 22800 project from 2014, but in September 2020 canceled the contract for two units ordered by Vostochnaya Verf JSC in Vladivostok.
Due to the fact that the MRCS of the 22800 project are equipped with the main power plant as part of high-speed M507D-1 diesel engines, the difficulties of PJSC Zvezda (St. Petersburg) in producing these engines in the required volumes led to the fact that the 22800 project series turned into a long-term construction, and the ship hulls already launched have been idle for years in waiting for these engines.
The construction of the first seven MRCS of the 22800 project has been carried out since 2015 by JSC Leningrad Shipbuilding Plant Pella (JSC Pella), which has so far commissioned the first three ships of this type that entered service with the Baltic Fleet - Mytishchi (laid down under the name Hurricane, renamed in 2018, factory number 251, commissioned by the Navy on December 17, 2018), Sovetsk (laid down under the name "Typhoon", factory number 252, commissioned on October 12, 2019) and Odintsovo (factory number 253, laid down under the name "Squall", commissioned on November 21, 2020). The fourth MRK Burya built on the Pella (factory number 257) was transferred to factory sea trials in October 2022, but has not yet been handed over to the Navy.
In fact, due to problems with the supply of main diesel engines and problems with financing, completion at the Pella plant contains three ships of the 22800 project - Kozelsk (factory number 254, laid down under the name "Storm"), Okhotsk (factory number 255) and Vortex (factory number 256), - the hulls of which were built at the Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Shipbuilding Plant "More" in Feodosia (Crimea) and then towed by inland waterways to Pella for completion in November 2019 - May 2020. According to the latest data, the delivery of these MRCS is now planned to be postponed to 2026-3030.
Four more MRCS of project 22800 are being built at Amur Shipbuilding Plant JSC (ASZ) in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, where they were laid down in 2019-2020 - Rzhev, Udomlya, Pavlovsk and Ussuriysk (factory numbers 201 to 204). The launch of the first two of them, Rzhev and Udomlya, was carried out on September 27, 2023.
The launching ceremony at JSC Zelenodolsk Plant named after A.M. Gorky of the patrol ship Viktor Veliky (factory number 165) of project 22160 (right) and the small missile ship Typhoon (factory number 805) of project 22800 (code "Karakurt") under construction for the Navy of the Russian Federation (left). Zelenodolsk, 05/07/2024 (c) zelenodolsk.tatarstan.ru
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