Sredne-Nevskiy Shipyard (SNSY, Saint-Petersburg) plans to hold the ceremonial launching of minesweeper of project 10750Э on October 30, 2015, the shipyard’s press center says.
The ship is being built at the shipyard’s facilities in Kazakhstan within the framework of the programme for international military-technical cooperation.
The design was developed by Almaz bureau.
Sredne-Nevskiy Shipyard (Saint-Petersburg) was founded in 1912. It has already built over 500 ships and vessels to 43 different projects for RF Navy and foreign customers. Currently, the shipyard builds missile boats, minesweepers, passenger and work vessels of different purposes and is getting ready for a large-scale construction of the new generation mine countermeasures ships for RF Navy and foreign customers.
United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC OJSC) is the largest shipbuilding company in Russia. It was set up in 2007 with 100% federal ownership. The holding comprises 60 companies and organizations (major shipbuilding and shiprepairing companies as well as leading design bureaus). Currently, USC consolidates about 80% of the domestic shipbuilding complex. The Russian market is the main focus of the state corporation though it also exports its products to 20 countries worldwide.