The base is designed for new strategic submarines, Borei, which have received 9 billion rubles of financingi, Admiral Vladimir Masorin said Monday.
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Russia to Build New Nuclear Submarine Base in Kamchatka
Russia is to build a new nuclear submarine base in the Kamchatka Peninsula, the Russian Navy’s Commander-in-Chief Admiral Vladimir Masorin told reporters in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, the Far East, on Monday.
The town of Vilyuchinsk is to host a modern base for the submarine forces of the Pacific Fleet in the next two or three years. The base is designed for new strategic submarines, Borei, which have received 9 billion rubles of financing. In addition, a new base for surface ships is to be built in Avachinskaya bay of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.
In April, Russia launched its first submarine of the new Yuri Dolgoruky series. Two similar vessels, Alexander Nevsky and Vladimir Monomakh, are to be built by 2010. Each of them is equipped 12 ballistic missiles which are capable of delivering 10 nuclear warheads at the distance of 8,000 km.
Severomorsk in the Kola Peninsula has been the chief base for the Soviet and Russian nuclear submarines. “These ships are now scattered across the bay,” Admiral Masorin said. “Our goal is to get them all together in one site and provide with all necessary things.”
There are currently 19 Russian submarines and other vessels on duty in the world ocean, the Russian Navy’s commander-in-chief said.
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