President Vladimir Putin took part in the official ceremony at Sevmash shipyard
Severodvinsk, Russia based Sevmash shipbuilding enterprise has held the Navy's flag raising and commissioning into service official ceremony for two nuclear-powered missile submarines Imperator Alexander III and Krasnoyarsk. Russian President Vladimir Putin took part in the event, the Kremlin press office said.
“We are consistently equipping the Russian Navy with the state-of-the-art equipment and weapons and, let me emphasize this, we are increasing serial production. Thus, the Imperator Alexander III is the seventh ship in a series of Borei-class nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines, and the Krasnoyarsk is the fourth ship in a series of multi-purpose nuclear-powered cruise missile submarines,” President Vladimir Putin was quoted as saying.
He added that the submarine missile carriers Imperator Alexander III and Krasnoyarsk will soon enter active service with the Russian Navy's Pacific Fleet.