Russian submarine Novorossiysk
Novorossiysk in 2015 | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| Russia | |
| Name | Novorossiysk (B-261) |
| Namesake | Novorossiysk |
| Builder | Admiralty Shipyards |
| Laid down | August 2010 |
| Launched | 28 November 2013 |
| Commissioned | 22 August 2014 |
| Status | in active service |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Kilo-class submarine |
| Displacement | |
| Length | 74 metres (242 ft 9 in) |
| Beam | 9.9 metres (32 ft 6 in) |
| Draft | 6.1 metres (20 ft 0 in) |
| Propulsion |
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| Endurance | 45 days |
| Test depth | 300 m (984 ft 3 in) |
| Complement | 52 officers and sailors |
| Armament | 6 × 553 mm (21.8 in) torpedo tubes |
Novorossiysk B-261 (Russian: Б-261 «Новороссийск») is the lead ship of the Project 636.3 (NATO reporting name Improved Kilo II-class) diesel-electric attack submarine of the Russian Navy. It was laid down at the Admiralty Shipyards in Saint Petersburg in August 2010, launched on 28 November 2013, and commissioned on 22 August 2014. Novorossiysk is assigned to the Black Sea Fleet.
It was deployed in support of the Russian intervention in the Syrian civil war as part of the Mediterranean Sea Task Force more than once. When the Russian invasion of Ukraine broke out in 2022, it was in the Mediterranean and unable to return to its base in the Black Sea because Turkey closed the Bosphorus to military vessels. Since then it has been based out of the Baltic Sea.