MOSCOW, November 3. /TASS/. The nuclear-powered submarine Generalissimus Suvorov has successfully launched a ballistic missile Bulava during the final phase of government certification tests, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Thursday.

"The crew of the newest strategic missile submarine Generalissimus Suvorov, of the Borey-A project, has successfully fired a Bulava ballistic missile during the final phase of the government certification tests," the Defense Ministry stated.

The launch was carried out from the White Sea at the Kura proving ground in Kamchatka.

"The flight of the Bulava ballistic missile was normal. According to verified objective monitoring data, the warheads were successfully delivered to the designated test impact area Kura," the Defense Ministry stressed.

Earlier, the CEO of the northern machine-building enterprise Sevmash (part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation) Mikhail Budnichenko, told TASS that the Project 955A strategic nuclear-powered submarine Generalissimus Suvorov was about to be handed over to the Russian Navy.

The nuclear-powered submarine Generalissimus Suvorov belongs to the fourth generation of nuclear-powered subs of the upgraded project Borey-A (designed at the St. Petersburg Central Design Bureau of Marine Engineering "Rubin"). The project boasts fundamentally new technical solutions, improved equipment, a lower level of physical fields and better safety.

The keel-laying ceremony for The Generalissimus Suvorov was held at the Sevmash plant on December 26, 2014. The sub was rolled out on December 25, 2021. It will join the nuclear submarine group of the Pacific Fleet.