The boat of this project is multifunctional and designed to solve a wide range of tasks both in coastal areas of navigation and in the open sea when the boat is based on surface ships. It is a small boat with an steel hull. There is a cabin and an open cockpit for passengers. The engine compartment is located in the middle of the boat. The boat is equipped with a 3D6 diesel engine with 150 hp with reverse gear operating on 1 shaft with a fixed-pitch three-blade propeller. From 1950 to 2002, several hundred boats of this project and its modernized versions were built.

Boat RK-956 laid down at the Rybinsk Shipyard (yard No.1895), commissioned on 1993 and was assigned to the Black Sea Fleet.

The boat was decommissioned and excluded from the lists of the Black Sea Fleet in 2018.