Transport floating dock Sviyaga has started her journey to the north.

Admiral Makarov, third ship of Project 11356 will be launched on September 2, 2015.

More pics from IMDS-2015 can be found here.

http://sdelanounas.ru/blogs/64805/

The new destroyer is one weird looking ship.
Zubr is huge.

Serpuhov and Zeleniy Dol are almost completed.

Any news about when will Sviyaga be completed? By the way will she be the only one or will be there others? She is the only one laid down so far, as far as I know.

I knew that project 22160 could be fitted with anti-ship missiles if needed but I had missed that model. I didn’t know they are planning to use container launchers to achieve that capability.

The last of the Project 10410B border patrol ship has been launched.

Also Pardus has been commissioned. Although not really a navy news but the vehicle is interesting none the least.

Some more icebreaker news

A principal decision has been made on the development of the conceptual design for the new Leader Icebreaker, IAA PortNews journalist cites Sergey Kirienko, Director General of State Atomic Energy Corporation ROSATOM, as telling journalists during the keel-laying ceremony held by Baltiysky Zavod for the first serial nuclear-powered icebreaker of Project 22220. According to Sergey Kirienko, federal financing of the project has been launched via the Ministry of Industry and Trade.

Director General of ROSATOM also noted that the icebreaker would let move across the Arctic ice of any thickness (up to 4.5 m). The Leader Icebreaker will reportedly have the power of 110 MW.

http://en.portnews.ru/news/200352/

I hope they build that 110 MW beast.

There are quite a few icebreakers under construction in Russia at the moment.

These are the pretty well known
– Nuclear powered Project 22220, also known as LK-60: Arktika, Siberia and Ural. Ural hasn’t been laid down yet.
– Project 22600 (LK-25): Viktor Chernomyrdin.
– Project 21900М (LK-16): Vladivostok, Murmansk and Novorossiysk.

There is also many other icebreakers under construction. The news are from the last few months.

Vyborg Shipyard (United Shipbuilding Corporation) will build two 22 MW multi-purpose diesel-electric icebreakers for Gazprom Neft Novy Port, press center of the shipyard says.
The icebreakers will operate at the Arctic terminal of the Novoportovskoye field on the western bank of the Ob Bay (Yamal peninsula). The vessels will be built to the latest design and will have ice class Icebreaker8 ensuring icebreaking capability of up to 2 m and feature high maneuverability and relatively shallow draught. Under the contract, the vessels are to be delivered to the customer before 2018.

http://en.portnews.ru/news/198006/

A 10 MW icebreaker with an innovative propulsion system is intended for operation at port Sabetta under Yamal LNG project. Vessel’s characteristics: length – 84.3 m, breadth – 21.3 m; draught – 6.5 m; icebreaking capability – 1.5; deadweight with maximum draught – at least 2,000 t. The delivery is scheduled for November 2018.

http://en.portnews.ru/news/199056/

A keel-laying ceremony for diesel-electric icebreaker ILYA MUROMETS (project 21180) was held Thursday, 23 April at Admiralty Shipyards. General characteristics: length overall – 85 m, breadth overall – 20 m, depth – 9.2 m, draft overall – 7 m, speed – 15 knots., icebreaking capability – 1 m. The vessel completion and delivery is scheduled for December 2017.

http://en.portnews.ru/news/198622/

At the moment Arctech is building six icebreaking vessels. The first vessel, the Murmansk icebreaker for the Russian Ministry of Transport, is due to be delivered in the autumn of 2015. The second vessel, the world´s first LNG-powered icebreaker for the Finnish Transport Agency, will be delivered by beginning of 2016. In the spring of 2014 Arctech was awarded a contract to build an icebreaking supply vessel for the Russia´s largest shipping company Sovcomflot. In early summer 2014, Arctech received an additional order of three icebreaking stand-by vessels.

http://arctech.fi/icebreaker-murmansk-for-the-russian-ministry-of-transport-launched-today-at-arctech-helsinki-shipyard/#more-1040

Those supply vessels are identicals to Vitus Bering and Aleksey Chirikov delivered a few years ago.

The vessels named MPSV Beringov Proliv (Bering Strait, hull No 217) and MPSV Murman (hull No 218) are registered in Korsakov and Murmansk respectively. Vessels characteristics: length – about 88 m, breadth – almost 19 m, depth – 8.5 m. From spring 2015, the vessels will start fulfilling their tasks on patrolling and rescuing operations in the areas of shipping, fishing, oil and gas production. The vessels are intended for search and assistance to vessels in distress, breaking of ice of up to 1.5 m thick, fighting of fire at floating and onshore facilities, oil spill response activities, inspection of sea bed and damaged facilities at the depth of up to 1,000 m.

http://en.portnews.ru/news/195240/

So 18 new icebreakers are under construction or will be very soon. Besides all this, nuclear powered Sovetskiy Soyuz is under repair will be recommissioned in 2016. Also Sevmorput, a nuclear-powered icebreaking carrier and container ship, is under repair and will be recommissioned in 2016.