On August 26, 2024, a solemn ceremony of admission to the Russian Navy and the raising of the St. Andrew's flag on the Amur small missile ship of project 22800 (code "Karakurt") with factory number 803 took place in Kaspiysk. The ship was built in Kerch at the B.E. Butoma Shipbuilding Plant JSC (the Gulf Shipbuilding Plant, under the control of Ak Bars Shipbuilding Corporation JSC), but due to wartime circumstances, it was completed and tested in the Caspian Sea, although it was formally enrolled in the Black Sea Fleet. She became the fifth ship of the 22800 project to enter service with the Russian Navy.
The Amur small missile ship of project 22800 (code "Karakurt") with factory number 803, commissioned into the Russian Navy, was built in Kerch at the B.E. Butoma Shipbuilding Plant JSC (Zaliv Shipyard, under the control of Ak Bars Shipbuilding Corporation JSC). Kaspiysk, 08/26/2024 (c) Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation
The ceremony was attended by the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy Admiral Alexander Moiseev, Head of the Russian Navy Shipbuilding Department Rear Admiral Ilyas Shigapov, representatives of the command of the Caspian Flotilla, General Director of JSC Shipbuilding Corporation Ak Bars Renat Mistakhov,
On the part of bmpd, we recall that Amur is the third unit built under the contract signed on August 5, 2016 by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation with JSC Zelenodolsk Plant named after A.M. Gorky (Zelenodolsk) for the construction of five serial small missile ships (MRCS) of project 22800 for the Russian Navy. Since the Kerch shipyard "Zaliv" has been under the management of JSC Zelenodolsk Plant named after A.M. Gorky since the end of 2014, and now it is under the control of the head structure of the Zelenodolsk GCC in the form of JSC Shipbuilding Corporation Ak Bars (SCAB) through the structure of JSC Shipbuilding Plant named after B.E. Butoma, the construction Three of the five MRCS ordered under this contract were produced in Kerch. Initially, the contractual deadlines for the delivery of three Kerch ships were 2019-2020.
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. The launch of the MRK Cyclone was carried out in Kerch on July 24, 2020, and in September 2021 the ship was towed from Kerch to Novorossiysk for testing and commissioning there. At the end of November 2021, the Cyclone entered factory sea trials, but the ship's testing process dragged on for more than a year and a half. MRK was eventually accepted into the Navy on July 12, 2023. On May 19, 2024, the Cyclone was sunk in Sevastopol by ATACMS tactical missiles fired by the armed forces of Ukraine.
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 being repaired at the Zaliv plant, 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. Factory sea trials of the ship began in December 2023. After the AFU missile strikes on Kerch, it was decided to transfer all the Navy ships under construction from the Black Sea to the Caspian Sea. As a result, in April 2024, the Amur MRC, together with the similar MRC "Cloud" (factory number 804), was actually built in Zelenodolsk and transferred from Novorossiysk via inland waterways to undergo testing and commissioning on the Caspian Sea to Kaspiysk. The Amur MRK has now been transferred to the fleet there, while it can be expected that it, like the Cloud MRK, will remain in the Caspian Sea until the end of hostilities with Ukraine.
MRK "Cloud" (factory number 804) was html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">was laid down on February 26, 2019 at the Zelenodolsk SSZ, becoming the first ship of the 22800 project, which was actually built in Zelenodolsk. It was launched on June 30, 2023 and towed from Zelenodolsk to Novorossiysk in the fall of 2023, and then to the Caspian Sea in April 2024. Its commissioning is expected by the end of the year. On September 11, 2019, a Typhoon of the same type was laid down in Zelenodolsk (factory number 805), which was launched on May 7, 2024. The contract deadline for the delivery of ships with factory numbers 804 and 805 was 2021.
Initially, presumably, all five ships of the project 22800, ordered by Zelenodolsk SSZ, were intended for the Pacific Fleet. However, according to the statement of the then Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy, Admiral Nikolai Evmenov, at the flag-raising ceremony at the MRK Cyclone on July 12, 2023, all these five ships were listed as part of the Black Sea Fleet.
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.
Delayed due to problems with the supply of main diesel engines and problems with financing, sluggish completion with unknown completion dates at the Pella plant are three ships of the 22800 project - Kozelsk (factory number 254, laid down under the name "Storm"), Okhotsk (factory number 255) and Whirlwind (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 recent reports, the delivery of these MRCS is now planned to be postponed to 2026-2030.
Four more MRK projects 22800 are being built at Amur Shipbuilding Plant JSC (ASZ) in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, where they were laid in 2019-2020 - Rzhev, Udomlya, Storm (laid under the name Pavlovsk) and Uragan (laid under the name Ussuriysk") (factory numbers 201 to 204). The launch of the first two of them, Rzhev and Udomlya, was carried out on September 27, 2023.
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The ceremony of commissioning into the Russian Navy of the Amur small missile ship of project 22800 (code "Karakurt") with factory number 803, built in Kerch at the B.E. Butoma Shipbuilding Plant JSC (Zaliv Shipyard, under the control of Ak Bars Shipbuilding Corporation JSC). Kaspiysk, 08/26/2024 (c) The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation and JSC Zelenodolsk Plant named after A.M. Gorky
