26.10.2009
The project of a new-generation minesweeper was associated with 60th anniversary of St. Petersburg Almaz Central Design Bureau for Marine Engineering (CDBME), held on Oct 23.
The minesweeper will reliably protect harbors, fairways and the Navy. Such ships are equipped with mine hunting system searching mines in front and at the course. That significantly increases effectiveness of patrols.
On the occasion of jubilee, shipbuilders and designers of St. Petersburg along with their colleagues arranged a solemn night to dip into the history of design bureau, one of the top-ranked in domestic shipbuilding.
Over 20 000 boats, warships, interceptors, vessels for Soviet and Russian Navy, Coast Guard and ecological service were built within sixty-year period under
Almaz projects, said Alexander Shliakhtenko, Director General to
ITAR-TASS. And almost thousand orders were executed at Neva banks for navies and coast guards of 39 countries.
History of the bureau goes back to the order of USSR Ministry of Shipbuilding Industry to establish in Leningrad a Special Design Bureau for long-range combatant crafts (since 1956 –
TsKB-5). First Project 183R
Komar missile boats – fast vessels for coast guard – were created there. Border guard tasks had being successfully performed by
Mirazh-type patrol boats, interceptors
Sobol, ships of Projects 125A, 1400, 205P, 12412, 10410 designed by
Almaz. Special place of bureau's history takes development of
Zubr-type air cushion amphibious ships of Project 2322; they are still the largest vessels of their class (displacement is 550 t). That is the only Russian vessel commissioned at NATO country – Greece.
Nowadays a number of vessels for different purposes and with various tonnages are being constructed under
Almaz projects. Among them Project 20380 corvettes being build at OJSC
Severnaya Verf shipyard. Lead ship
Steregushchy keeps watch in the Russian Navy; three serial corvettes are in different levels of completeness. Shipwrights of
Admiralteiskiye Verfi shipyard are assembling hull of rescue vessel
Igor Belousov (Project 21300); it is expected to be put afloat in 2011.
Sobol and
Svetlyak-type boats are being prepared for delivery to foreign customers.
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