Built for the GUGI OIS "Evgeny Gorigledzhan" entered the stage of sea trials
Oceanographic research vessel "Evgeny Gorigledzhan" project 02670, built at the Baltic shipyard "Yantar", has entered the stage of sea trials.
Yesterday, on January 25, 2022, the ship left the territory of the Yantar Baltic shipbuilding plant in Kaliningrad and made the transition to Baltiysk, where it will be tested. The crew and commissioning team of the Yantar are on board the OIS. The timing of the test is not reported, several exits to the sea are planned. Based on the test results, the ship will be handed over to the customer.
The oceanographic research vessel "Eugene Gorigledzhan" was built in the interests of the Main Directorate of Deep Sea Research (GUGI) of the Ministry of Defense. The ship was actually rebuilt from the sea tug MB-305 project V-92, built in 1983 in Poland according to project 02670, developed at Almaz Central Design Bureau.
The formal laying down (actually re-laying) of the vessel took place on March 19, 2016. In 2018, construction was stopped and resumed only in February 2020 after the contract was renegotiated with the Ministry of Defense. The vessel was launched at the end of December 2020. In June 2021, mooring trials began, sea trials were supposed to begin in the fall, and at the end of last year the ship was planned to be handed over to the customer.
Displacement of the vessel - 4 thousand tons, length - 81 m, width - 16 m, autonomy - 30 days, crew - 32 people and 25 members of the expedition. The main purpose is "carrying out underwater technical works". The OIS is capable of taking on board underwater and rescue vehicles.
The vessel is named after Evgeny Alekseevich Goriglejan, a Soviet and Russian design engineer, general designer of special-purpose nuclear submarines at the Rubin Central Marine Design Bureau.
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