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The
Project 12700 mine sweeper Alexander Obukhov was built for the Navy
by the Sredne-Nevsky Shipyard, part of Russia’s United Ship-Building
Corporation.
The mine sweeper Alexander Obukhov was transferred from the Sredne-Nevsky
Shipyard to Kronstadt in July 2015, from which it was towed to Baltiysk
to take part in a naval parade on the occasion of Navy Day.
In early August 2015, the mine sweeper Alexander Obukhov was towed from
Baltiysk to the Sredne-Nevsky Shipyard in St. Petersburg in northwest
Russia again to complete its equipping.
On December 2, 2015, the mine sweeper Alexander Obukhov was towed from
the shipyard to Kronstadt again but did not start undergoing shipbuilders’
trials and stayed in Kronstadt during the whole winter.
France’s refusal to deliver countermine equipment to Russia due
to the Western sanctions was officially named as the main reason for
the delay of the ship’s trials.
The Sredne-Nevsky Shipyard started preparations for the construction
of the new-generation Project 12700 Alexandrit-class lead mine sweeper
in 2002.
The Sredne-Nevsky Shipyard signed a contract with Russia’s Defense
Ministry on March 30, 2007 to carry out R&D works to construct the
Project 12700 lead ship.
The mine sweeper Alexander Obukhov (factory number No. 521) was laid
down at the Sredne-Nevsky Shipyard on September 22, 2011.
The mine sweeper with a displacement of about 800 tons has the world’s
biggest hull made of monolith fiberglass obtained with the use of the
vacuum infusion method.
The mine sweeper’s hull was fully developed in the matrix in December
2012, brought to an open area from the fitting-out workshop on March
26, 2014 and put afloat on June 27, 2014.
The mine sweeper started undergoing dock trials on February 1, 2015.
The ship took part in the International Naval Show in St. Petersburg
on July 1-5, 2015 and Navy Day in Baltiysk in late July.
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