After boarding the Alexander Nevsky, a Project 955 Borei class nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine, Vladimir Putin listened to the report of its captain, who said the submarine had sailed out for its first high-seas trial run in late October.
The Prime Minister congratulated the submarine's crew, who was standing on the deck, on the successful tests. The crew shouted "Hurrah!" in unison.
In 2004, the keel of the Project 955 nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine Alexander Nevsky, the second Borei class submarine, was laid at Sevmash. The Alexander Nevsky is a fourth-generation ballistic missile submarine. These submarines are to be equipped with Bulava ballistic missiles (SLBMs). The Alexander Nevsky cost an estimated 23 billion roubles. Testing is to be completed in 2012.
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Before visiting the Sevmash Production Association, the Prime Minister chaired a meeting on the Navy's 2012 state defence contracts. The meeting included a discussion of price-related and technical parameters, and specific deadlines.
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Prime Minister Vladimir Putin witnesses the signing of the following documents in Severodvinsk:
- Contract to develop the Project 885 M Nuclear-Powered Cruise Missile Submarine;
- Contract to develop the Project 955 A Nuclear-Powered Cruise Missile Submarine;
- Contract to build the Project 21300 Rescue Ship;
- Contract to build the Project 885 М Nuclear-Powered Cruise Missile Submarine;
- Supplement to the agreement on the intermediate overhaul of the Novomoskovsk Nuclear-Powered Cruise Missile Submarine;
- Contract to develop the design brief for the Project 1144.2 Nuclear-Powered Heavy Missile Cruise Ship;
- Contract to launch full-scale production of the Project 885 М Nuclear-Powered Submarine;
- Agreement to develop engineering documentation, purchase equipment and materials, and construct and commission Ice-Resistant Fixed Platform 1 on the Vladimir Filanovsky oil and gas field;
- Agreement to develop engineering documentation, purchase equipment and materials, and construct and commission the Central Processing Platform and a bridge from Ice-Resistant Fixed Platform 1 to the Central Processing Platform on the Vladimir Filanovsky oil and gas field;
- Agreement to develop engineering documentation, purchase equipment and materials, and construct and commission Accommodation Block Platform 1 and a bridge to it on the Vladimir Filanovsky oil and gas field;
- Certificate of completion of the Arkticheskaya jack-up drilling rig's sea trials.
