Baltic Shipyard
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Open joint-stock company | |
Industry | Shipbuilding |
Founded | 1856 |
Headquarters | Vasilyevsky Island, Saint Petersburg, Russia |
Revenue | $345 million[1] (2015) |
Parent | United Shipbuilding Corporation |
Website | www.bz.ru |
The Baltic Shipyard (Baltiysky Zavod, formerly Shipyard 189) (Russian: Балтийский завод имени С. Орджоникидзе) is one of the oldest shipyards in Russia and is part of United Shipbuilding Corporation today.
It is located in Saint Petersburg in the south-western part of Vasilievsky Island. It is one of the three shipyards active in Saint Petersburg. Together with the Admiralty Shipyard it has been responsible for building a large part of Imperial Russian battleships as well as Soviet nuclear-powered icebreakers. Currently it specializes in merchant ships while the Admiralty yard specializes in diesel-electric submarines.
History
The shipyard was founded in 1856 by the St. Petersburg merchant M. Carr and the Scotsman M. L. MacPherson. It subsequently became the Carr and MacPherson yard.[2] In 1864 it built two monitors of the Uragan class.[2] In 1874 the shipyard was sold to Prince Ochtomski.[2]
In 1934 the shipyard started work on the three prototypes for the S-class submarine, based on a German design produced by the Dutch company Ingenieurskantoor voor Scheepsbouw. The Soviets renamed the shipyard Zavod 189 'im. Sergo Ordzhonikidze' on 30 December 1936.
See also
- Peresvet-class battleship
- Borodino-class battleship
- Borodino-class battlecruiser
- Andrei Pervozvanny-class battleship
- Gangut-class battleship
- Kronshtadt-class battlecruiser
- Sverdlov-class cruiser
- Russian battlecruiser Petr Velikiy
- Taimyr-class nuclear icebreaker
- Dekabrist-class submarine
- Baltijos Laivų Statykla in Lithuania
- Arktika-class icebreaker
- Admiralty Shipyard
- Severnaya Verf
References
- ↑ http://www.rbc.ru/magazine/2016/05/5716c2249a79472b85254179.
- 1 2 3 Polmar, Norman; Noot, Jurrien (1991). "Submarine building yards". Submarines of the Russian and Soviet Navies, 1718-1990 (Google Books) (illustrated ed.). Naval Institute Press,. pp. 325–326. ISBN 0-87021-570-1. Retrieved 2009-07-05.
External links
- Official website (in Russian)
- Official website (in English)
- Baltiysky Zavod JSC on Federation of American Scientists
- Baltic Shipyard on Nuclear Threat Initiative
Coordinates: 59°55′53″N 30°15′29″E / 59.93139°N 30.25806°E