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Vympel workers repaired the Shmel boat at the Victory Museum on Poklonnaya Hill in Moscow. Before May 9, Vympel General Director Yevgeny Norenko was asked to renew the boat by Innokenty Innokentievich Nalyotov, chairman of the Marine Guard Veterans Club, to the General Director of Vympel. For the performance of work, the master of the ship finishing and metal processing…
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At the acceptance base of the Amur Shipyard (ASZ, part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation) in Vladivostok, mooring trials have begun on the fourth serial multipurpose patrol ship of project 20380 “Rezkiy”. All systems and equipment of the ship are ready for testing. A schedule for closing mooring certificates has been drawn up. All the mechanisms of the corvette were…
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In the fall of 1931, the Rybinsk Cutter Plant (now the Vympel Shipyard) produced its first boat. With a length of 11.5 meters, designed for only 20 passengers, it developed a speed of no more than 14-15 kilometers per hour. To date, the boat was unsightly, and its contours are far from perfect. But to the first shipbuilders who were…
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On September 14, 2021, the state commission signed an acceptance certificate for a patrol boat of project 1496M1 “Manatee” in river execution. The boat project was developed by the advanced shipbuilding department of Vympel Shipyard JSC, taking into account the requirements of the Border Guard Service of the FSB of Russia to improve the tactical and technical characteristics and habitability.…
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In early November, an acceptance certificate was signed for a special-purpose boat of the Grachonok project for the Federal Service of the National Guard of the Russian Federation. On July 15, at the Vympel Shipyard JSC, the ceremonial laying of the project 21980 Grachonok special-purpose boat took place on the order of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.…
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June 1, 2021 (Microsoft Translation) – On June 1, at the Vympel Shipyard, a ceremony was held for the launching of a maritime transport of weapons of project 20360M, serial number 01551 “Gennady Dmitriev”. This is the largest vessel in the history of the company. At the moment, the weight of the ship’s hull is 2,200 tons. The launching was…
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March 19, 2021 (Google Translation) – On March 19, at the Vympel shipyard, the 20360M Gennady Dmitriev weapons project 20360M, serial number 01551, was rolled out of the slipway onto the open slipway of the sea transport. This is the largest ship in the history of the enterprise. Its length is 77 meters, width – 16 meters, height – 14…
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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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