Vladimir Monomakh submarine to join Pacific Fleet

20.06.2016 12:30:39 (GMT+12)

Vladimir Monomakh submarine to join Pacific Fleet
Russian ballistic missile submarine Vladimir Monomakh (Borei class) Project 955 will join the Pacific Fleet before the year-end, Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy Admiral Vladimir Korolyov told journalists.

TASS agency informed, that the transfer to the Pacific Fleet will take place in August-September 2016. Vladimir Monomakh will leave Gadzhievo base and get to Vilyuchinsk in Kamchatka. At the moment Vilyuchinsk has Alexander Nevsky submarine, which came there in autumn 2015 from the Northern Fleet.

Translated by Ksenia Skotnikova.