On March 27, 2025, a ceremony was held in Severodvinsk to transfer the Perm nuclear submarine (serial number 165), the fifth nuclear submarine under construction for the Russian Navy, from the slipway of JSC Severnoye Machine-Building Enterprise (NSR, part of JSC United Shipbuilding Corporation) to the filling pool. the ship of the modified project 08851 (project 885M; code "Ash-M"). The ceremony was attended by Russian President Vladimir Putin and Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy Admiral Alexander Moiseev via teleconference from Murmansk. Perm is to become part of the Pacific Fleet.
The ceremony of decommissioning the Perm nuclear submarine cruiser (serial number 165) of the modified project 08851 (project 885M; code "Yasen-M") from the workshop of JSC "Production Association "Northern Machine-Building Enterprise". Severodvinsk, 03/27/2025 (c) Dmitry Manokhin
At the ceremony, Vladimir Putin announced via videoconference that the Perm had become the first multi-purpose submarine armed with Zircon hypersonic cruise missiles. After participating via videoconference in the Perm decommissioning ceremony in Severodvinsk, Vladimir Putin visited the K-562 Arkhangelsk nuclear-powered submarine of the same type, moored in Murmansk at the Atomflot berth, commissioned by the Navy in December 2024.
The official laying of the lead nuclear submarine Perm (serial number 165) of the modified project 08851 was carried out in Severodvinsk on July 29, 2016. This ship is the fourth of five serial nuclear submarines of Project 08851 (Yasen-M) with serial numbers 162, 163, 164, 165 and 166, which are being built under a contract signed on November 9, 2011 by the Russian Ministry of Defense with JSC United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC). The project was developed by JSC St. Petersburg Marine Engineering Bureau Malachite.
The lead nuclear-powered submarine of the fourth generation of the Project 885 series (code "Yasen") K-560 Severodvinsk (serial number 160) was laid down at the NSR on December 21, 1993 and handed over to the Russian Navy for trial operation on June 17, 2014.
Further construction of the series is carried out at the NSR according to the modernized project 08851 (code "Yasen-M"), according to which the first nuclear submarine K-561 Kazan (factory number 161) was laid down on July 24, 2009, which was withdrawn from the NSR workshop on March 31, 2017, and launched on April 8, 2017. She entered factory sea trials on September 24, 2018 and was commissioned into the Russian Navy on May 7, 2021.
As part of the aforementioned 2011 contract, the NSR completed the construction of the first serial nuclear-powered submarine of project 08851 K-573 Novosibirsk (serial number 162), which was laid down on July 26, 2013, decommissioned on December 25, 2019, entered factory sea trials on July 1, 2021 and was commissioned by the Navy. On December 21, 2021, she joined the Pacific Fleet. On September 28, 2021, Novosibirsk, having completed an inter-fleet transfer from the Northern to the Pacific Fleet, arrived at its permanent base in Kamchatka.
The second ship under the 2011 contract, K-571 Krasnoyarsk (serial number 163) of the modified project 08851, was laid down in Severodvinsk on July 27, 2014, decommissioned on July 30, 2021, and entered factory sea trials on June 26, 2022. Krasnoyarsk joined the Navy on December 11, 2023, and on September 24, 2024, after making an inter-fleet transition from the Northern to the Pacific Fleet, arrived at its permanent base in Kamchatka.
The third ship under this contract, K-562 Arkhangelsk (serial number 164), was html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">was launched in Severodvinsk on March 19, 2015. The Arkhangelsk's withdrawal ceremony from the NSR workshop took place on November 29, 2023, and the ship sailed for factory sea trials for the first time on June 11, 2024. On December 27, 2024, Arkhangelsk joined the Northern Fleet of the Russian Navy.
The construction of the Ulyanovsk submarine cruiser (serial number 166), laid down on July 28, 2017, is also continuing under the 2011 contract for the NSR.
In June 2019, the Russian Ministry of Defense signed a contract with USC for the construction of two more serial nuclear-powered submarines of project 08851 (Yasen-M), which were officially laid down at the NSR on July 20, 2020 under the names Voronezh and Vladivostok (factory numbers 167 and 168), with contractual delivery dates. The years 2027 and 2028.
The ceremony of decommissioning the Perm nuclear submarine cruiser (serial number 165) of the modified project 08851 (project 885M; code "Yasen-M") from the workshop of JSC "Production Association "Northern Machine-Building Enterprise". Severodvinsk, 03/27/2025 (c) Dmitry Manokhin and JSC "Production Association "Northern Machine-building Enterprise"
