Russian Navy to be supplied with more than 50 vessels before end of 2014

Russia's Navy is to be supplied with more than 50 new vessels before the year end, Navy Commander-in-Chief Admiral Viktor Chirkov said on Saturday.

One of them is a Project 636 diesel-electric submarine due to be launched next week.

"On June 26, the diesel-electric submarine Rostov-on-Don will be launched at Admiralty Wharves for the Black Sea Fleet," Chirkov told graduates of naval colleges at a ceremony in St. Petersburg, adding that altogether the fleet would be supplied with six Project 636 submarines.

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