New diesel-electric project 636.3 Krasnodar submarine will be put into service of the Russian Navy on November 5, 2015, says press center of RF Defence Ministry. Flag raising ceremony will be held in Saint Petersburg. Krasnodar submarine is the fourth in the 6-submarine batch.
Novorossiysk, the first project 636.3 submarine, has been put into service of the Black Sea Fleet. Rostov-on-Don submarine will join the Black Sea Fleet after passing armament trials held at the Northern Fleet. The third diesel-electric submarine Stary Oskol is passing armament trials at the Northern Fleet at the moment.
According to the plan, all six submarines of project 636.3 will have been built and put into service of the Russian Navy by the end of 2016.