SEVERODVINSK. July 24 (Interfax-AVN) - The head ship of Project 955A (Borei A class), the ballistic missile nuclear submarine Knyaz Vladimir, will be laid down at the Sevmash shipyard (Severodvinsk, Arkhangelsk region) in late July, the shipyard said in a press release on Monday.
"The series of fourth-generation nuclear submarines armed with Bulava ballistic missiles should become a basis for the Russian naval strategic nuclear forces in the next few decades. The ships were designed by the Rubin Central Design Bureau for Marine Engineering," the press release said.
The nuclear submarines are being built by Sevmash.
The state tests of the head nuclear submarine from Project 955 (Borey), Yuriy Dolgorukiy, are nearing completion, tests continue on the Aleksandr Nevskiy nuclear submarine, and the third ship, Vladimir Monomakh, is being built.
Sevmash is the only Russian shipyard which builds nuclear submarines for the Russian Navy. Throughout its history, the shipyard made 128 nuclear submarines for the Russian Navy.