"I order to enroll in the Navy project 11711" Pyotr Morgunov "serial number 302 and include in the 121st brigade of landing ships of the Northern Fleet," - quoted by Evmenov RIA Novosti.
He noted that Pyotr Morgunov, along with the lead ship Ivan Gren, which has already entered the Northern Fleet and the expected landing ships Vladimir Andreev and Vasily Trushin, as well as with frigates of Project 22350, “will form the basis of the groupings of the long-range sea and ocean zone ".
The Commander-in-Chief of the Navy said that the Pyotr Morgunov large landing craft was named in honor of the first cavalier of the Order of Nakhimov of the first degree, the chief of the coastal defense of the Black Sea Fleet during the Great Patriotic War.
Earlier, the state tests of the head corvette of the project 20385 "Thundering" were completed.
The ceremony of accepting the corvette into the Navy is scheduled for late December.