Rybinsk based Vympel Shipyard launches big hydrographic vessel of Project 19920 built for RF Navy (photo)

On June 26, 2015, Vympel Shipyard (Rybinsk, Yaroslavl Region) launched a big hydrographic survey vessel of Project 19920 built for RF Navy, says press center of RF Ministry of Defence.

The shipyard also held a keel-laying ceremony for yet another vessel of the same project.

The newly built ship will be delivered to the hydrographic service of the Leningrad Naval Base (Lomonosov) in late summer upon completion of all trials.  The ship will service over 160 aids to navigation placed at the islands and hard-to-reach places at the coast of the Gulf of Finland. Also, big hydrographic survey vessels of Project 19920 will undertake a large scope of bottom survey in the Gulf of Finland and supply the personnel of lighthouses.

Rybinsk, Yaroslavl Region based Vympel Shipyard is a fast-growing company specializing in building of medium-, small-tonnage sea-going and river vessels and boats both for military and civil sectors. Since its inception in 1930, VYMPEL Shipyard had built more than 30,000 ships of various types. For the last 40 years the company had built and delivered more than 1,800 boats to customers in 29 countries in Europe, Middle East, South East Asia, Africa and South America. Vympel Shipyard is building serial new generation missile and patrol boats, fast SAR boats, fire-fighting boats, survey and fishery vessels, tugs and other crafts.