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

On July 5, 2016, Vympel Shipyard (Rybinsk, Yaroslavl Region) launched a big hydrographic survey vessel of Project 19920 (Hull No 01844, side No БГК 2150) built for RF Navy, says shipyard.

Upon completion of the mooring trials the ship will be towed to Sevastopol for sea and state tests. The ship will be deployed for operation in the Black and the Azov Seas.

Big hydrographic survey vessels of Project 19920 are intended for high-precision 3-D bottom survey, servicing of floating and nonfloating aids to navigation, delivery of personnel and cargo to unimproved shore.

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.