On February 20, Admiralty Shipyards OJSC (Saint-Petersburg) held a solemn ceremony of laying down submarine Krasnodar of project 636.3 for RF Navy, IAA PortNews was told at the shipyard.
The Krasnodar of project 636 is the forth submarine in the series being built by Admiralty Shipyards for RF Navy. The lead submarine of the series, the Novorossiysk, was laid down in November 2011, the third submarine named Stary Oskol – in August 2012.
Characteristics: NATO classification – Improved Kilo; surface speed – 17 knots; underwater speed – 20 knots; operational depth – 240 m; maximum dive – 300 m; cruising capacity – 45 days; crew – 52 persons, surface displacement – 2,350 t; submerged displacement – 3,950 t.