The Kostromich Type of small civil tugboat was designed in the ends of 1940th by the Glavlesprom, USSR. The main purpose of this type of tugboat in the civil service is to work on a timber rafting and towing non-self-propelled vessels. It is a single-deck screw tug of the Kostromich type, Project 1606, with a cabin in the hull and a wheelhouse. Most tugs of this type (about 500 vessels were built under this project) were used in the civil service. In the Navy, these vessels were used as towing boats, passengers boats, as well as PSKA (border patrol boats).

Tugboat BUK-49 laid down at Vympel Shipyard, Rybinsk, commissioned in 1988.

The tugboat was commissioned in 2016, and scrapped in 2020.