As reported, on February 8, 2025, factory sea trials of the patrol ship Viktor Veliky (serial number 165), the fifth ship of project 22160, built by JSC Zelenodolsk Plant named after A.M. Gorky (as part of JSC Ak Bars Shipbuilding Corporation of the Ak Holding Company Group of companies), began in the Baltic Sea. Bars") in Zelenodolsk for the Russian Navy.
The Viktor Veliky patrol ship (serial number 165) of project 22160, built for the Russian Navy, returns to Kronstadt after first entering factory sea trials, 02/11/2025 (c) Curious / forums.airbase.ru
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 (serial number 165) was carried out under 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 serial numbers 162, 163, 164, 165 and 166. The ships with serial numbers 162, 163 and 164 were in 2018, and with serial numbers 165 and 166 - in 2019.
The patrol ship Viktor Veliky (serial number 165) was laid down at the Zelenodolsk SSZ on November 25, 2016. The ship was launched on May 7, 2024, and in July 2024 was towed by inland waterways from Zelenodolsk to Kronstadt at the Kronstadt Marine Plant JSC for completion, testing and commissioning. Now the Viktor Veliky has left Kronstadt for factory sea trials. The ship is named after the Soviet boat racer Hero of the Soviet Union (1944) Victor Ivanovich the Great (1918 - 1996).
Also, under this contract, the patrol ship Nikolai Sipyagin (serial number 166), laid down on January 13, 2018, is being built in Zelenodolsk.
Earlier, the Zelenodolsk SSZ commissioned the first two ships of project 22160. Under a contract with the Russian Ministry of Defense dated April 11, 2014, he completed the construction of the Vasily Bykov Project 22160 lead patrol ship (serial 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 October 2014 contract), the Dmitry Rogachev (serial number 162), was commissioned by the Russian Navy on June 11, 2019.
Two more ships, Pavel Derzhavin and Sergey Kotov (serial numbers 163 and 164), were actually built under the October 2014 contract at LLC Zaliv Shipbuilding Plant in Kerch, which has been under the control of the Zelenodolsk Plant named after A.M. Gorky since the end of 2014, and now as JSC Shipbuilding Plant. B.E. Butoma is under the control of the head office of the Zelenodolsk Shipyard in the form of JSC Ak Bars Shipbuilding Corporation (Ak Bars Holding Company JSC group of companies). 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 Sergey 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 patrol ship Viktor Veliky (serial number 165) of project 22160, built for the Russian Navy, returns to Kronstadt after the first factory sea trials, 02/11/2025 (c) Alexey Akentiev / vk.com/marinist_spb
