The executive told TASS news agency that Sevmash will first complete the production of the current series ordered by the Defense Ministry, which consists of 12 units.

Budnichenko said that over the past 10 years they gave priority to hiring personnel and modernizing the company’s facilities in order to continue implementing the state program orders.

Today Sevmash employs more than 30 thousand people and all production workshops are being re-equipped. “That is why I can responsibly state that the tasks set for the company will be safely fulfilled,’ he stated.

The naval entity has already built three nuclear-powered submarines of the Borei class (Yuri Dolgoruki, Aleksander Nevsky and Vladimir Monomaj) and three of the Borei-A class (Prince Vladimir, Prince Oleg and Generalissimo Suvorov), which are already in service at the Russian Navy.

In turn, the nuclear-powered ships Emperor Alexander III, Prince Pozharsky, Dmitry Donskoy and Prince Potiomkin are at various stages of construction.

In 2023 the Russian Navy intends to add the seventh ship in this series, the Emperor Alexander III submarine. jrr/jav/jf/gfa.