 President Vladimir Putin attended a televised flag-raising ceremony on December 11 for two nuclear submarines that he said were part of a strategic drive to project Russian naval power. Putin traveled to the northern city of Sivirodvinsk to view the vessels, the Krasnoyarsk and Emperor Alexander III, at the submass shipbuilding yard. Putin said both nuclear-powered vessels would soon take up duty in the Pacific, emphasizing that they were part of two separate series of submarines that. Russia is rolling out. We will quantitatively strengthen the combat readiness of the Russian navy, our naval power in the Arctic, the Far East, the Black Sea, the Baltic Sea, and the Caspian Sea, the most important strategic areas of the world's oceans, he said, flanked by officials and naval officers on an outdoor stage with snowflakes fluttering in the air. The Emperor Alexander III is part of Russia's new Borya-class of nuclear submarines. The first new generation it has launched since the Cold War last month, the Defense Ministry said the vessel had successfully tested a nuclear-capable Bilava intercontinental ballistic missile. The Krasnoyarsk belongs to the Yazin-class of multi-purpose submarines equipped with long range, high-precision missiles that Putin said could strike both sea and land targets.