St. Petersburg shipyard launches multipurpose submarine

St. Petersburg’s Admiralty Shipyards held a ceremony Friday to lay the keel of the Sevastopol, a serially produced multipurpose submarine.

Admiralty Shipyards said in October it would begin construction of a fourth-generation diesel-electric submarine in November. ‘The Project-677, or Lada-class diesel submarine, whose keel will be laid November 10, will be named after a city associated with Russian naval glory – Sevastopol,’ a company source said. ‘It is to be launched in 2010.’