On 30 June 2021, Okskaya Shipyard (Navashino, Nizhny Novgorod Region) held a ceremonial keel-laying of a large hydrographic ship of Project 19920 for the Hydrographic Service of RF Navy. Under the order of Admiral Nikolai Yevmenov, the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy, the ship will be named after Anatoly Knyazev, organizer and participant of the Arctic tests of the first high-latitude navigation complex during the cruise of a nuclear submarine to the North Pole in 1963.
The keel-laying ceremony was attended by Captain 1st Rank Ilyas Shigapov, Head of the Naval Shipbuilding Department, who congratulated shipbuilders in the name of RF Navy’s Commander-in-Chief Nikolai Yevmenov and wished them success in implementation of the tasks under the state defence order.
Large hydrographic ships of Project 19920 are multifunctional in their class and have a wide range of capabilities for hydrographic survey of the seabed and water as well as maintenance of coastal facilities of the Navy’s navigation and hydrographic support system.