The ceremony of laying the small missile ship Project 21631, known as “Stavropol”, He was held today at a shipyard named after Gorky Zelenodolsk, According to the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation Ministry of Defense.
At the welcoming ceremony was attended by Deputy Defense Minister Alexei Krivoruchko, representatives of the High Command of the Navy, as well as representatives of the Republic of Tatarstan Government. As reported at the Zelenodolsk shipyard, laid MRK “Stavroprol” It is the twelfth ship of the project 21631, under construction in the enterprise.
It should be recalled, that the six ships of the project already are serving as part of the Naval Fleet of Russia. Of these, the parent “city sviyazhsk” and serial “Uglich”, “great Ustyug” part of the Caspian flotilla, “green Dol” and “Serpukhov” are serving in the Baltic Sea, a “Vishny Volochek” recently I became a member of the Black Sea Fleet.
Currently at different stages of construction of five more ships are being built at Zelenodolsk Shipyard, excluding pledged today “Stavropol”, this – “Nut-Zuevo”, “Ingushetia”, “Graivoron”, “city” and “Naro-Fominsk”.
MRK project 21631 “Buyan-M” are multi-purpose ships such as “River-Sea”, equipped with modern weapons, including - eight high-precision cruise missiles “Caliber”. displacement - 949 tons with a length 75 meters and a width 11 m. Maximum speed - 25 knots. Cruising range - 2500 miles, autonomy - 10 day. crew - 52 man.
Which are currently under construction and the completion of six IRCs, in contrast to the first six copies, They will be armed marine embodiment ZRPK “Carapace M”.