MOSCOW, March 2. /TASS/. The Severnaya Verf Shipyard in St. Petersburg in Russia’s northwest is set to deliver the Project 22350 latest missile frigate Admiral Golovko to the Russian Navy in the second quarter of this year, the Shipyard’s press office told TASS on Thursday.

"Under the existing plans, the Admiral Golovko is due to be delivered in the second quarter of 2023. A decision on the exact date will be made by the Navy’s Main Command," it specified.

Russia’s Defense Ministry reported on December 6 that the frigate had wrapped up the first round of shipbuilders’ sea trials in the Gulf of Finland in the Baltic Sea and returned to the Severnaya Verf Shipyard’s wharf. The new warship’s first deployment to the sea lasted ten days. During this period, the frigate’s crew and the Shipyard’s delivery team carried out its maneuvering and speed tests and tested the operation of its assemblies, mechanisms and systems.

The Admiral Golovko is the Project 22350 third-built and second serial-produced frigate. The Project 22350 lead and first serial-built frigates Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Gorshkov and Admiral of the Fleet Kasatonov are operating within a formation of the Northern Fleet’s missile ships. Frigates of this Project carry Kalibr-NK and/or Oniks cruise missile systems as their basic strike weapons and will eventually be armed with Tsirkon hypersonic missiles.