"It
is a big day for the Navy, St. Petersburg and the country today. The
ceremony of floating out the vessel is a truly national event,"
Russian Navy Deputy Commander-in-Chief Vice-Admiral Alexander Fedotenkov
said. "The Admiralty Wharves Shipyard is really the leading
enterprise in Russia’s shipbuilding. You build ships in a proper
manner and deliver them on time," he added.
Head of Russia’s Rubin Central Design Bureau for Marine Engineering
Igor Vilnit wished the submarine’s crew good service and said
that designers would do their best to maintain Project 636.3 submarines
in good condition.
The submarine Kolpino will be the final submarine in a series of six
Project 636.3 diesel-electric submarines currently under construction
for the Russian Navy. Four Project 636.3 diesel-electric submarines
have already been made operational with Russia’s Black Sea Fleet.
The Project 636.3 lead submarine Novorossiysk was delivered to the Russian
Navy in August 2014. The Russian Navy received the second Project 636.3
submarine Rostov-on-Don on December 30, 2014. In late 2015, the submarine
Rostov-on-Don launched Kalibr (NATO reporting name: SS-N-27 Sizzler)
cruise missiles from the Mediterranean Sea to destroy facilities of
the Islamic State terrorist organization (outlawed in Russia) in Syria.
The third Project 636.3 submarine Stary Oskol joined the Russian Navy
in July 2015. The fourth Project 636.3 submarine Krasnodar was delivered
to the Navy on November 5, 2015. The fifth Project 636.3 submarine Veliky
Novgorod designed for the Black Sea Fleet was floated out on March 18.
The fifth and the sixth Project 636.3 submarines are planned to join
the Black Sea Fleet this year.
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