Admiralty Shipyards to deliver submarine of project 677 in 2016
Admiralty Shipyards OJSC (part of United Shipbuilding Corporation) will transfer to the active phase of the construction of the Lada submarine (second submarine of project 677) in late 2013. The delivery is scheduled for 2016, PortNews IAA reporter cites Aleksandr Buzakov, Director General of the shipyard, as telling the journalists today.
We remind that last week RF Ministry of Defense made a decision on a serial construction of conventional submarines of project 677 (Lada) put on ice in 2012. The construction of submarines has already been included into the Defense Procurement.
Admiralteiskie Verfi OJSC (Admiralty Shipyards) is a key enterprise of shipbuilding, a centre of conventional submarine building of Russia. The shipyard is affiliated with the United Shipbuilding Corporation OJSC. At the moment the shipyard facilities are fully engaged. A number of contracts are being successfully implemented at the shipyard for domestic and foreign customers. Two series of submarines are under construction now: project 636.1 for foreign Navies and project 636.3 for RF Navy. Besides, the Igor Belousov rescue vessel with the deep-operating vehicle Bester-1 is being built by the Shipyard. The Company’s staff numbers 6,500 persons.
