The BMK-130M is a Soviet steel-hulled towing motor boat used by engineer units to move pontoons, ferries, anchors, and small craft during military river-crossing work. Open vessel references place the type in the BMK-130 family built at Vympel Shipyard, while loss tracking for the full-scale Russia-Ukraine War records a Russian BMK-130M/BMK-150-family boat as captured.
Oryx lists one Russian BMK-130M/BMK-150 towing motor boat as captured during the full-scale invasion, documenting the family in Russian engineer-equipment losses while not separating the BMK-130M from the closely related BMK-150 identification.
Role detailsThe BMK-130M is useful to a bridge or ferry unit because it moves floating bridge equipment rather than acting as an armed combat craft. Open vessel references describe the steel-hulled diesel boat as a tug for small craft and towing crossings, with the BMK-130M as the main model in the family.
Tow small craft, ferry elements, and bridge-crossing equipment during river-crossing work.
Small steel-hulled diesel tug/motor boat, not a warship or armed patrol craft.
The conflict-use source groups the loss as BMK-130M/BMK-150, so the row records family-level wartime documentation rather than a separated hull-level BMK-130M identification.
Open vessel references treat BMK-130, BMK-130M, and BMK-130ML as closely related tug-motor-boat variants within the same family.
| Variant | Configuration | Designation notes |
|---|---|---|
| BMK-130 | Earlier family member | RussianShips.info lists BMK-130 alongside BMK-130M, BMK-130MA, and BMK-130ML in the same tugboat type family. Sources: RussianShips.info BMK-130 Type |
| BMK-130ML | Later/related family member | FleetPhoto lists BMK-130, BMK-130M, and BMK-130ML together, with BMK-130M identified as the main model in the type page. Sources: FleetPhoto BMK-130 Type |
FleetPhoto records multiple BMK-130-family hull entries beginning in the 1970s and identifies Vympel Shipyard in Rybinsk/Andropov as the build location for the type.
Oryx's Russian equipment-loss list for the invasion later included one captured BMK-130M/BMK-150 towing motor boat among Russian engineering equipment losses.
