Minister of Defense Sergey Shoygu has ordered that all infrastructure for new submarines in Gadzhiyevo, as well as Zaozyorsk and Novorossiysk, should be ready by the end of 2015, TASS reports.
Gadzhiyevo is home base for the Northern Fleet’s new Borey class submarines, while Novorossiysk is a base in the Black Sea Fleet, where vessels of the new Varshavyanka-class diesel-electric submarines will be based. The first two of these subs are currently undergoing deep-water tests in the Arctic.
Zaozyorsk may probably be Russia’s northern base for the new Yasen-class multi-purpose submarines. At least has the first vessel of the class, the K-329 Severodvinsk, has been based in Zaozyorsk, only 60 kilometers from the Norwegian border, as BarentsObserver reported. Russia plans to build five Yasen-Class subs.
Commander of the Russian Navy Admiral Victor Chirkov visited the Northern Fleet last weekend to see how development of the infrastructure is going, the Ministry of Defense’s web site reads.
New flats and social infrastructure
It is not only the new submarines that have got new homes in Gadzhiyevo, but also the people that will be serving onboard them. The Ministry of Defense has started building new blocks with a total of 492 flats for the submariners. Last year two new apartment buildings were raised in the town, this year another five new apartment buildings will be constructed.
In October last year, 36 sailors, most of them serving onboard the «Yury Dolgoruky», were the first to receive flats in the first apartment building to be built in Gadzhiyevo in 20 years, TV21 reported.
Construction of a leisure center with ice rank, swimming pool, and cinema with 300 seats will also start in 2015, SeverPost writes. Six old apartment buildings will be demolished to make space for the new center.
Fatal accidents
The rapid development of Gadzhiyevo has not been without casualties. In the end of January, one worker died and two other were injured when part of an apartment building collapsed during construction. Only four days earlier, another worker died in an accident during construction of a new kinder garden in the town, SeverPost reports. Investigations have started in both cases, the web site reads.
