Nuclear-powered submarine Alexander Nevsky to arrive in Kamchatka before end of 2014

The strategic nuclear-powered submarine of Project 955 (Borey class) will arrive in Kamchatka before the end of the current year, Commander of the Eastern Military District of Russia Colonel General Sergei Surovikin said on Friday at a visiting session of the military council.

“In accordance with the Russian Defense Ministry’s instructions, the construction of the facilities of the first priority stationing site should be completed by October 2014, and the Alexander Nevsky submarine will start the combat training program before the end of the year,” he said.

“The Vladimir Monomakh submarine will also arrived in Kamchatka after factory trials,” Surovikin added.

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