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Northern Shipyard to Build 13 Warships for Russian Navy

RIA Novosti

14:16 21/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 21 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's Northern Shipyard (Severnaya Verf) has a contract with the Defense Ministry to build a total of 13 warships for the Russian Navy, the shipyard’s general director, Andrei Fomichev, said on Tuesday.

These include six corvettes, six frigates and one reconnaissance ship, he said.

On February 1, the St. Petersburg based shipyard started construction of two warships - the Project 20385 Gremyashchy corvette and the Project 22350 Admiral Golovko frigate.

The Steregushchy and the Soobrazitelny corvettes have already been completed and transferred to the Navy, Fomichev said.



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