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05 October 2022
by Tony Roper
Airbus NEO satellite imagery shows the Project 885M Severodvinsk (Yasen)-class SSGN
Novosibirsk
and Project 955A Dolgorukiy (Borey)-class SSBN
Knyaz Oleg
at the Pacific Fleet’s Rybachiy naval base in Kamchatka Krai, Russia, on 28 September 2022.
(©Airbus DS 2022/SkyWatch Space Applications Inc/Tony Roper)
The Russian Navy’s Pacific Fleet has received two submarines in one day at the Rybachiy naval base in Kamchatka Krai, Russia.
The Project 885M Severodvinsk (Yasen)-class nuclear-powered guided-missile submarine (SSGN)
Novosibirsk
and Project 955A Dolgorukiy (Borey)-class nuclear powered ballistic missile submarine (SSBN)
Knyaz Oleg
both arrived at the naval base on 26 September 2022, having departed the Northern Fleet region around 23 August.
Knyaz Oleg
joins two other Project 955s in the Pacific Fleet,
Alexander Nevskiy
and
Vladimir Monomakh
, which were commissioned in December 2013 and December 2014, respectively, while
Novosibirisk
is the first of its class for the fleet.
Both submarines have had a long wait to be sent to their new homebase, having been commissioned on 21 December 2021.
Novosibirisk
remained at Severodvinsk in the White Sea until this transfer, while
Knyaz Oleg
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