"The Zaliv Shipyard has the necessary equipment and technical potential to build ships of this class and designation," the Shipyard press office announced.

The Zaliv Shipyard has the country’s largest dry dock, which earlier enabled it to build such large-capacity vessels as the Krym and Pobeda supertankers, and also the world’s first nuclear-powered LASH carrier and container ship Sevmorput, the press office noted.

The Russian Defense Ministry and the Zaliv Shipyard are to sign a contract on the construction of the warships in February. The amphibious assault ships would be named the Sevastopol and the Vladivostok, after the cities in Crimea and Russia’s Far East, respectively.

Russian Deputy Defense Minister Alexei Krivoruchko told the Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper in late December last year that the contract on the construction of universal amphibious assault ships was due to be signed in 2020.

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Editör  : Hasan Cem KARAKAŞ