Nuclear strategic fourth-generation submarine К-550 Aleksandr Nevsky will leave for its Kamchatka base before the end of December 2013, says press center Kamchatka Territory authorities.
The Aleksandr Nevsky submarine is the first serial ship of project 955, Borey. The keel –laying ceremony was held on March 19, 2004. The lead vessel of the series, Yury Dolgoruky, was put into service in January, 2013. In 2006 and in 2012, Sevmash laid down two more serial submarines of this project: Vladimir Monomakh and Knyaz Vladimir. All in all, eight Borey-class submarines are to be built by 2020.
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