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The
Nizhegorodsky teplokhod shipyard in Nizhny Novgorod laid the
keels of two big survey boats of project 23040G for the Russian
Navy, the press service of the defense ministry said. "The
boats are scheduled to be handed over to the Russian Navy
after all tests in 2017. Another four boats, two a year, will
be built in 2017 and 2018," it said. The keel laying
ceremony was attended by Captain 1st rank Sergei Travin, the
head of the navigation and oceanography department of the
Russian defense ministry. |