Yantar Shipyard will lay the keel of oceanographic research ship of Project 02670 on March 19, 2016 (graphics)

On March 19, 2016, Kaliningrad-based Baltic Shipbuilding Plant “Yantar” (Yantar Shipyard) will lay the keel of oceanographic research ship of Project 02670, the Yevgeny Gorigledzhan, the shipyard’s press center says.

The ceremony of keel-laying will be attended by representatives of the regional authorities, RF Defece Ministry’s Chief Directorate of Deep-sea Research and relatives of Yevgeny Gorigledzhan, soviet and Russian design engineer.

The ship will be built through repair and re-equipment of a rescue tugboat MB-305 (Szczecin, 1983). The contract between Yantar Shipyard and RF Ministry of Defence was signed in mid-February 2016. 

The ship is to be delivered in 2017.

Oceanographic research ship of Project 02670 was designed by Almaz design bureau. Displacement – 4,000 t, length- 81 m, breadth – 16 m, endurance – 30 days, crew – 32 and 25 of expedition participants.

Kaliningrad-based Baltic Shipbuilding Plant “Yantar” (Yantar Shipyard) was founded on July 8,1945 on the basis of a Koenigsberg unit of German’s Schichau Werft. Yantar Shipyard specializes in building and repair of warships and civil boats. Throughout the years the Shipyard has built 160 warships and more than 500 merchant vessels. The Russian Government holds majority stake in the shipbuilding firm through Western Center of Shipbuilding, a subsidiary of state-owned United Shipbuilding Corporation.