ST.PETERSBURG. Nov 8 (Interfax) - Admiralty Shipyards is planning to float out the Project 23550 Nikolai Zubov ice-class patrol ship in late 2024-early 2025, the company's acting general director Andrei Bystrov said.
"We floated out the Kapitan Yunak trawler in September [and] the Yakutsk submarine in October. And we will definitely float out the Nikolai Zubov ship at the end of this year or January [2025]," Bystrov said during the float-out ceremony for the Project ST-192 Mechanic Shcherbakov large freezer fishing trawler on Friday.
The Nikolai Zubov is a versatile ship which can be used as a tug, icebreaker and patrol boat and break through ice up to 1.5 meters thick. Laid down in 2019, it is designed to protect and monitor Arctic water resources and convoy and tow detained vessels to port. The ship can also accompany and support supply vessels, participate in rescue operations and transport special cargo in containers on the upper deck.
The ship can operate in a broad range of areas from the tropics to the Arctic. It can carry out artillery strikes against naval, coastal and aerial targets.
Admiralty Shipyards is part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation