It is reported that on May 28, 2024, Almaz Shipbuilding Company PJSC in St. Petersburg launched the Sakhalin border patrol ship of the 2nd rank of project 22120 (code "Blizzard") with factory number 060 (tail number "460"), under construction for the Coast Guard of the FSB Border Guard Service Russia. This is the eleventh ship of Project 22120.
Launched at PJSC Shipbuilding Company Almaz, the eleventh Sakhalin border patrol ship of project 22120 (factory number 060) is being built for the Border Service of the FSB of Russia. Saint Petersburg, 05/28/2024 (c) Curious / forums.airbase.ru
Sakhalin became the third ship of the 22120 project, commissioned in 2023 after Podolsk and Ufa, 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, nine 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, 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), 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), Podolsk (factory number 058, commissioned on November 11, 2023) and Ufa (factory number 059, commissioned on December 29, 2023).
Currently, the PPK Rear Admiral Kolchin E.S., Rear Admiral Dianov and Admiral Ugryumov are based at Nevelsk on Sakhalin, Kamchatka, Transbaikalia and Taimyr are based at Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Kamchatka, and PPK-831 is based at Nakhodka. PPK Ladoga is based in Murmansk. PPK Podolsk is planned to be based on Shikotan in the Kuril Islands, and PPK Ufa is planned to be based on Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.
It is reported that now another ship of project 22120 with factory number 061 is under construction at SF Almaz, on which, perhaps, the construction of the series will be completed.
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Launching (decommissioning from a floating dock) at PJSC Shipbuilding Company Almaz of the eleventh Sakhalin border patrol ship project 22120 (factory number 060) under construction for the Border Service of the FSB of Russia. Saint Petersburg, 05/28/2024 (c) Curious / forums.airbase.ru
