The largest shipyards in Russia

2024 Author: Howard Calhoun | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-01-17 18:37

The domestic shipbuilding industry was started by Peter the Great. It was this sovereign who, at the end of the 17th century, founded the Arkhangelsk State Shipyard, which later formed the backbone of the first Russian military flotilla. In our article you will find information about the largest shipyards in Russia at the present time, find out what and in what volumes they produce.

Shipbuilding in Russia: past and present

Global shipbuilding has long moved to East Asia. About 70% of all ships produced on the planet are accounted for by only three states of this region. These are China, Japan and South Korea. The United States and Germany follow with a noticeable margin. Russia, alas, is not in the top 5, but closes the top ten of the world's shipbuilders.

The oldest ship found on the territory of modern Russia is dated by scientists to the fifth century BC. In the times of Russia, mainly merchant ships were built. The first shipyard for the construction of warships was founded in 1693 in the city of Arkhangelsk. Exactly therecreated the 58-gun frigate Goto Predestination. Petersburg was founded in 1703, and in it - the Admir alty, the largest shipbuilding plant in the country at that time. Thanks to this, the Russian Empire already had its own sailing fleet by the beginning of the 18th century.

Today, shipbuilding is a strategically important branch of the Russian heavy industry. In 2017, its revenue increased by 14% and reached 523 billion rubles. The main customer in this sector of the economy is still the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

Fun facts:

• It was in Russia that the world's largest icebreaker was designed.
• The largest submarine also designed and built in Russia.
• Since 2017, a professional holiday has been celebrated in Russia - Shipbuilder's Day (June 29).

Main shipyards in Russia: list, contacts and map

Today, 168 shipbuilding and ship repair enterprises operate in the Russian Federation. Half of them are government. Key centers of modern Russian shipbuilding: St. Petersburg, Severodvinsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Kaliningrad and Vyborg.

The table below lists the largest shipyards in Russia:

Enterprise	City	Production	Address
Northern Shipyard	St. Petersburg	Corvettes, frigates, destroyers, shipssecurity	Kirovskiy district, st. Ship, 6
Vyborg Shipyard	Vyborg	Small and medium tonnage ships, drilling platforms	Primorskoye highway, 2
Sevmash	Severodvinsk	Nuclear submarines (including repairs)	Arkhangelsk highway, 58
Amur Shipyard	Komsomolsk-on-Amur	Nuclear submarines (PLAT class), corvettes, civil ships	Labor Alley, 1
Nevsky Shipyard	Schlisselburg	Passenger ships, tugboats. Ship repair	Factory Island, 2
Krasnoe Sormovo	Nizhny Novgorod	Nuclear submarines (PLT), commercial ships	St. Barricade, 1
Oka Shipyard	Navashino	Dry cargo ships, fishing and oil tankers	St. Passing through, 4/14
Almaz Plant	St. Petersburg	Small landing craft	Prospect Petrovsky, 26
Asterisk	Severodvinsk	Repair and modification of ships and submarines	Prospectus Machine builders, 12
Zelenodolsk plant named after A. M. Gorky	Zelenodolsk	Small warships, civil ships	St. Factory, 5

The location of all the above plants on the map of Russia you can see below:

Northern Shipyard

JSC "Severnaya Verf" in St. Petersburg is the company number 1 in the list of shipyards in Russia, the leader of surface military shipbuilding in the Russian Federation. The plant was founded in 1912. Today, over 4,000 workers work in its numerous workshops.

The exceptionally advantageous location near the Sea Canal allows the plant to send its ships for testing on the high seas all year round. "Northern shipyard" is spread over a fairly large area of 90 hectares and has road and rail entrances for the delivery of materials and equipment to its territory. The shipyard has vast experience in the construction of cruisers, minesweepers, destroyers, commercial, patrol and research vessels.

WAZ

Vyborg Shipbuilding Plant is the largest shipyard in the North-West region of Russia. Today, about 2 thousand people work here. The company specializes in the construction of passenger ships of high complexity, icebreakers, offshore drilling platforms. A related line of business is ship repair. The real pride of the Vyborg Shipyard is the Alexander Sannikov, a powerful and at the same time maneuverable icebreaking vessel capable of operating at extremely low temperatures (down to -50 degrees).

Krasnoe Sormovo

PJSC Krasnoe Sormovo is one of the oldest shipyards in Russia. It was founded back in 1849 in Nizhny Novgorod. The first Russian cruise liner was created here. It was here that the first Soviet tanks were constructed. Today, the enterprise is engaged in the production of commercial ships of mixed navigation ("river-sea"). The plant is capable of producing from eight to twelve ships annually, while consuming up to 40,000 tons of metal per year.

Diamond

The plant with the unusual name "Diamond" specializes in the production of high-speed ships, coast guard ships, as well as the production of metal structures based on aluminum-magnesium alloys. The company is located in St. Petersburg on Petrovsky Island and has been operating since the early 30s of the last century. Initially, patrol boats were produced on it.

ASZ

Amur Shipbuilding Plant is the largest enterprise in this industry in the Far East. The production of a wide range of shipbuilding products has been launched here, from nuclear submarines to floating platforms for offshore mining of fossil fuels. It also manufactures propellers, generators andvarious spare parts for marine vessels. During the Second World War, the plant launched the production of high-explosive bombs. In addition, submarines that participated in naval battles were repaired here.

Today the company employs at least four thousand people. The plant has nine dry docks at its disposal, allowing the assembly of large vessels up to 200 meters in length.