In early 2014, Rosenergoatom can finally determine the test site for the floating nuclear power plant (FNPP), the Akademik Lomonosov, which is being built by Baltic Shipyard, St. Petersburg. "The situation with FNPP project has become better. There is a clear understanding that the FNPP construction will be completed. The main equipment is installed in place. But we still have a number of issues to be solved, namely defining the power plant to the FNPP. Pevek remains the base site, we have hearings there", told us Eugene Romanov, director general of Rosenergoatom.
The crew of the newest corvette of type 20380, the Stoiky, built by Severnaya Verf for the Baltic fleet, successfully passed the course task SK-1 to prepare the ship for the factory sea acceptance trials. During the testing period, the crew together with industry representatives will thoroughly check the operation of all the ship's systems and mechanisms in the sea. The main equipment to be checked is propulsion plant, steering gear, auxiliary machinery, communication and navigation facilities and all the weapons.
October Revolution Shipyard handed over the buoy boat to the Navy. The Baklan of type 19920 was designed by Vympel Design Bureau, Nizhny Novgorod, in accordance with the modern requirements to ships of such a class.
Specifications:
- Displacement: 295 t
- LOA: 36.4 m
- BOA: 7.9 m
- Draught: 1.98 m
- Full speed: 11 kn
- Cruising range (at 11 kn): 1 000 miles
- Endurance: 10 days
- Crew capacity: 11 in number
- Main propulsion: Two diesel geared units (232 kW each) for fixed pitch propellers
On 23 December, Northwestern Shipping Company accepted and put into service the multipurpose dry-cargo vessel of type RSD49, the Neva-Leader 7. The manufacturer is Nevsky Shipyard. The type RSD49 was designed by Marine Engineering Bureau. Ships of type RSD49 are classed by the Bureau as Volgo-Don Max and have dimensions suitable to Volga-Don Ship Canal.
The first frigate of type 22350, the Soviet Navy Admiral Gorshkov, which is under construction at Severnaya Verf, St. Petersburg, will pass the factory sea acceptance trials in the Baltic sea at the beginning of 2014, immediately after installation of gun mount A-192. "The ship has long been ready to sail. It is the delayed delivery of 130-mm gun mount 192 from Arsenal Design Bureau that prevented from trials in the Baltic sea, especially from firing at the sea ranges of the Baltic fleet," tells the Flot.com agency.
Next November, Zvyozdochka Shiprepair Centre is going to deliver the Akademik Kovalev, advanced marine armament support ship, to the Russian Navy. The Akademik Kovalev is a reinforced ice class ship intended for loading, unloading and transporting weaponry.
Specifications:
- Length: 107.6 m
- BOA: 17.8 m
- Full displacement: 6.3 thousand tons
- Crew capacity: 60 in number
In the last days of 2013, Moscow Shipbuilding and Shiprepair Yard held harbour and sea acceptance trials of the second rescue and crew boat of type 21770, the Katran (serial No. 095). The ship is being built for Admiralty Shipyard. The boats are designed for supporting everyday activities of the mother ship being at anchor, in the roadstead or in the base.
Specifications:
Classed as: rescue and crew boat with elastic foam-filled sides
LOA: 9.12 m
Beam: 3.32 m
Draught: 0.67 m
Speed: 32 kn
Cruising range: 100 miles
Endurance: 1 day
Crew capacity: 2 in number.
Main propulsion: 2 main engines, 232 kW each
Zvyozdochka Shiprepair Centre completed the repair of the nuclear submarine missile cruiser, the Smolensk (type 949А Antey). On Monday, 23 December, the nuclear ship left the water area of the shipyard and sailed for sea acceptance trials. By 2014, the crew of the cruiser under the command of Boris Morozov, captain rank I, and the trial crew headed by a responsible person Viktor Shitukhin will have tested all the ship's systems at the White sea ranges. After that, the trial crew will return to Severodvinsk, and the cruiser will sail to the permanent base on the Kola Peninsula.
By 2016, the Russian Navy will have got an automated system to control rescue operations. The new equipment should accelerate the transmission of commands from headquarters to task forces as well as reduce the impact of the human factor. The fact of delivery was confirmed at Kuznetsov Naval Academy, which will come up with solutions concerning the rescue teams operations. The system is designed for binding the data on the location and state of the vessel in distress, data on salvage operations and readiness of rescue task forces.
The total cost of the Zvezda shipbuilding facility project is 111.7 billion roubles. Vladimir Shmakov, the president of the United Shipbuilding Corporation, said this at the meeting of the Marine Industry Board of the Government of Russia in Moscow. According to him, by now, they invested 18.6 billion roubles in the project. The construction project was reduced and now contains three stages instead of four. The first stage is construction of a hull production workshop and an open heavy-duty slipway; the second stage is construction of a dry dock; while the third one, an additional dock.
Specialists of Krylov State Research Centre have developed a conceptional design of a floating platform of ship type to recover the project well rate in the Arctic conditions. It is the first platform in the world withstanding the Arctic conditions and featuring ice resistance (continuous thin one-year ice and broken ice). The form and class of the ice reinforcement ensure safe operation in the specified ice conditions.
