Project 667BDRM nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine (SSBN) Verkhoturye which is currently being repaired on the main slipway of JSC Zvezdochka Ship Repair Center will be delivered to the Navy by the end of 2012, reports the yard’s press service.

The submarine is supposed to leave the covered slipway in March 2012. After that, nuclear reactor cores will be refueled. By that time, floating workshop PM-63 will be ready to perform this technologically complicated process. Before the sub is placed in the dock, shipbuilders of Zvezdochka will perform an array of works, i.e. assembling of the dock equipment, reactor refueling systems, and damage control systems. Also, access patch of the strength hull must be placed and welded in the 3-rd section.