OREANDA-NEWS. December 2, 2011. Russia will commence construction of serial strategic nuclear-powered submarines SSBN Borei-A class in 2012.

Sevmash is currently building three SSBN Borei class submarines of Project 955 (designed by Rubin Design Bureau): Yuri Dolgoruky, Alexander Nevsky and Vladimir Monomakh, General Director of Sevmash and Central Design Bureau of Marine Engineering (CDB) Rubin Andrei Diachkov said in an interview with PortNews. Overall, the shipbuilder will construct eight submarines of Borei and Borei-A class.

"We won’t hold keel-laying this year. Next year we plan to lay keel of the lead Borei-A submarine, or the updated version of the series. This is the forth submarine of the project. Under the state armaments program it is planed to commence construction of the fifth and sixth vessels’ hulls by 2020," said Andrei Diachkov.