The Russian naval shipbuilding program according to the Dutch newspaper Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant evening edition dated 4 July 1911

The correspondent at St. Petersburg for the Politische Correspondenz reported that the decision of the cabinet dealing with which yards got the orders for building 3 battleships, 9 torpedo boats and 6 submarines for the Black Sea Fleet as allowed by the budget for 1911 was to be expected within two weeks. The orders for the large cruisers for the Baltic fleet would not be given before the delivery of the Black Sea orders. In both cases got in principle Russian yards the orders. However there was still a possibility that two warships were to be ordered aboard if they accepted the condition of cooperation with the large Russian yards. The minister of navy vice admiral Oregowitsj was when the orders were given mainly interested in the height of the lowest level of building costs, the term of delivery and the guarantees for sufficient technical finishing off with or without cooperation between Russian yards and firms abroad. The Russian yards which got the orders were responsible for the delivered ships.