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October 15, 2020 (Google Translation) – On October 14, at the Vympel shipyard, after completion of the factory running and state tests, an acceptance certificate was signed for the patrol boat of project 1496M1E “Manatee”, serial number 01413. The boat with tail number 391 was named “Sarych”. The boat completes a series of five units that Vympel built in the…
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August 6, 2020 (Google Translation) – The Club of Veterans of the Maritime Guard of the Federal Border Guard Service of Russia approached the managing director of the Vympel shipyard with a request to carry out work on the Shmel border patrol boat installed in the Victory Museum on Poklonnaya Gora. This is not the first time the company’s employees…
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July 24, 2020 (Google Translation) – Employees of the Vympel shipyard carried out a technically complex operation to raise and install a retro-locomotive L-5270 on a pedestal at the Rybinsk station square. The equipment of the enterprise was involved in the work, including a unique, the only one in the region, an automobile crane with a lifting capacity of 200…
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Vympel Shipyard is 90 years old. The starting point in the history of the enterprise was July 11, 1930, when the chairman of the board of the State All-Union Association of River Shipbuilding and deputy chairman of the Rybinsk District Executive Committee signed a decree on the allocation of a plot of land in Rybinsk for the construction of a…
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June 15, 2020 (Google Translation) – In the Northern Fleet, the state sea trials of the small hydrographic ship Nikolai Skosyrev were completed. They took place for two weeks in the Kola Bay and the Barents Sea. During the tests, the navigational and seaworthiness of the vessel, the operation of its lifting device, hydrographic weapons were checked, its ability to…
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(Google Translation) – On May 28, at the Vympel Shipyard, which is part of the Kalashnikov Group of Companies, a river patrol boat, of an unknown project, was launched. Vympel has already designed and built four offshore boats of this project. The new boat with serial number 01409 is designed to serve on river and coastal sections of the state…
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