Shipbuilding is an established industry in Russia and is considered strategically important to both the country's armed forces and national economy.
Recent history
Russia's shipbuilding industry struggled in the post-Soviet era, with few ships completed between 1990 and 2010. Russia has had difficulty modernizing its shipbuilding industry and ship designs, due in part to economic sanctions and budget constraints, but has strengths in submarine and cruise missile development.
In October 2006, the government approved a short-term industry plan, the Complex Program to Advance Production of the Shipbuilding Industry on the Market between 2008 and 2015. It envisaged the establishment of a scientific centre at the Krylov Institute, two engineering centres, and three shipbuilding centres: the Western, Northern and Far Eastern Centers. The main long-term plan in 2007 was the "Strategy for developing the shipbuilding industry until 2020 and beyond". In 2010, Russia created new strategic plans to update and improve its fleet, while facing supply chain problems and other issues.
In 2025, the Government of Russia said it had built 49 ships over the previous five years. It announced plans to build 1,637 additional ships by 2036, including ships suitable for the Northern Sea Route and the International North–South Transport Corridor, such as oil tankers and ice class vessels.
Shipyards
Included United Shipbuilding Corporation (state corporation)
Western region (center in St. Petersburg) Name Location Year of foundation Types of vessels 33-rd factory ships repair Baltiysk 1889 ship repair Vyborg Shipyard Vyborg 1948 trial of high complexity, drilling platforms for the development of offshore marine, ships small and medium tonnage Baltic Shipyard "Yantar" Kaliningrad 1945 combat and civilian vessels Factory "Krasnoye Sormovo" Nizhny Novgorod 1849 court civil fleet. hardware modules for shelf development, rescue submersibles Almaz Shipbuilding Company Saint Petersburg 1933 Ships and hovercraft, patrol boats, special purpose ships, sailing and motor yachts, speedboats Admiralty Shipyard Saint Petersburg 1704 submarines, cargo ships, boats Baltic Shipyard Saint Petersburg 1856 warships, heavy civilian ships for transportation of various goods, icebreakers (with nuclear power plants and diesel) Proletarsky zavod (Proletarian factory) Saint Petersburg 1826 marine equipment Sredne-Nevskiy Shipyard Pontoon village, Kolpinsky District, Saint Petersburg 1912 missile boats (corvettes), mine countermeasures ships, patrol ships, work and passenger ships Severnaya Verf Saint Petersburg 1912 frigates, corvettes, cargo ships, supply vessels offshore drilling platforms, repair Kronstadt Naval Plant & Novoadmiralty Verf' STX (planned construction) Kronstadt 1858 ship repair (Novoadmiralty STX = military up to high dwt (150 k ton ?) icebreakers and oil gas related) "Pella" shipyard Saint Petersburg 1950 Pella holding tugs, pilot boats, boats, other vessels Svetlyy enterprise "ERA" Svetly, Kaliningrad Oblast 1969 electrical work on ships, repair, installation, commissioning and testing of the ship's electrical and power distribution equipment manufacturer Kriushinsky Shipyard Kriushi village, Novoulyanovsk 1975 shipbuilding and ship repair Plant "Nizhny Novgorod ship" Bor, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast 1911 ships and auxiliary fleet Moscow shipbuilding and ship repair facility Moscow 1933 yachts, river passenger ships, marker vessels, boats
Northern Region (center in Severodvinsk) Name Location Year of foundation Types of vessels Arkhangelsk branch "176th factory ship repair" Arkhangelsk 1949 ship repair 35th factory ship repair Murmansk 1938 comprehensive repairs ships of the Navy 82nd factory ship repair Murmansk 1947 repairing of ships (including submarines and icebreakers with nuclear power plant) Base fleet maintenance Murmansk 1959 ship repair 10th Order of the Red Banner of Labour factory ship repair Polyarny, Murmansk Oblast 1935 ship repair Ship Repair Centre "Zvyozdochka" Severodvinsk 1946 repair, modernization and refurbishment of nuclear submarines, dismantlement of nuclear submarines, manufacture of propellers, construction of civil vessels Production association "Sevmash" Severodvinsk 1939 nuclear submarines, tugs, cargo ships Shipyard "Nerpa" Snezhnogorsk, Murmansk Oblast 1966 repair, maintenance and disposal of nuclear submarines of the Northern Fleet of the Russian Navy
Far East Region (center in Vladivostok) Name Location Year of foundation Types of vessels Dalnevstochny zavod "Zvezda" (Far East Plant "Zvezda"), Zvezda DSME Bolshoy Kamen 1954 warships of any class, repair and refurbishment of nuclear/diesel submarines, disposal of nuclear submarines; icebreakers, oil platform drilling and LNG and oil tankers (plant under development) Northeast Repair Center Vilyuchinsk 1957 repair of nuclear and diesel submarines, surface ships, auxiliary vessels, weapons nomenclature ground forces and air defense, disposal of nuclear submarines Ship Repair Center "Dalzavod" Vladivostok 2012 (merger of the holding company "Dalzavod" and 178th ship repair plant) repair of surface ships and submarines (currently closed for plant modernization) Vostochnij Verf Vladivostok (Vladivostok Shipbuilding Plant until 1994) Boats Ships 92nd Order of the Red Banner of Labour factory ship repair Vladivostok ship repair Vostok-Raffles (joint venture United Shipbuilding Corporation and CIMC Raffles Offshore (Singapore) Limited (Singapore) Vladivostok 2010 drilling platforms ice breakers LNG oil platform drilling and tankers (now the plant is under planned construction) 30th factory ship repair Dunay, Primorsky Krai repair of warships Amur Shipbuilding Plant Komsomolsk-on-Amur 1936 cargo ships, fishing boats, special vessels Khabarovsk plant marine engineering of A. Gorky Khabarovsk 1946 marine electrical and hydraulic winches and kranoy small and medium-duty trucks, ejector pumps, marine heat exchangers, hydraulic feeder cargo on deck, tools, jigs and fixtures for the civil courts and Navy ships Khabarovsk Shipyard Khabarovsk 1953 boats for various purposes, passenger ships, fishing trawlers, refrigerators, barges, boats, support vessels for the fleet (tugs, bunkering, oil skimmers, pontoons, vessels pads), multipurpose hovercraft amphibious type and transport hovercraft for the oil and gas industry
Central Region Name Location Year of foundation Types of vessels Shipyard "Vympel" Rybinsk 1930 medium-and low-tonnage sea and river vessels, civil and military boats Yaroslavsky Shipyard Yaroslavl 1920 small anti-submarine and patrol boats, speed boats for different purposes with a displacement of 10 to 100 tons, amphibious patrol and amphibious hovercraft, support vessels for emergency service fleet displacement of up to 1,400 tons, river and sea speed passenger vessels up to 150 people, conservation and fishing boats, river tankers for oil and edible fats floating pumping stations, ships, leisure and tourism Lazurit Shipbuilding Plant & Krasnoje Sormovo Nizhny Novgorod Ships Boats and Submarines Zelenodolsky Plant. A. M. Gorky Zelenodolsk 1895 ships and special purpose ships; Court of goods by sea, river, sea-river, lake, other steel; high-speed passenger vessels of light alloys, hydrofoils, planing vessels
Southern Region Name Location Year of foundation Types of vessels Shipyard "Lotus" Narimanov, Astrakhan Oblast 1978 block topside modules of fixed offshore platforms designed for drilling and production of oil and gas on the continental shelf seas, cargo ships AstraSZ, Krasnje Barrikady, MSSZ2 and other Shipbuilding Plants Astrakhan Azovskaya SudoVerf' (new) Azov 2018 - 2024 various ships and oil gas tankers and arctic ships Novorossiysk factory ship repair Novorossiysk 1918 repair of sea and river vessels 5th factory ship repair Temryuk 1982 ship repairing Tuapse factory ship repair Tuapse 1934 ship repairing
Design Bureau Name Location Year of foundation Scope Design bureau "Astramarin" Astrakhan 2002 Perform design work on projects for hydrocarbon exploration and production offshore the Russian Federation and the Caspian region Research institute "Bereg" Vladivostok 1976 development of ship-borne instruments Far East Design Institute "Vostokproektverf" Vladivostok 1948 development projects of shipbuilding and ship repair plants Zelenodolskoye Design Bureau Zelenodolsk, Russia 1949 design of ships and vessels, as well as support their construction, development projects of modernization, advice and assistance in the design, experiment and test, design and manufacture of marine engineering Scientific and Production Association "Screw" Moscow (design bureau), Borovsk (pilot plant) 1946 creation and testing of all types of experimental marine propulsion, both for the Navy and for the national economy Special Design and Technological Bureau of Design and Technology Bureau electrochemistry with experimental plant Moscow 1941 An electrochemical regeneration system of automatic control of the air and the composition of the atmosphere in the living encapsulated objects, electrochemical generators of hydrogen and oxygen with different performance, electrochemical oxygen concentrators and carbon dioxide, electrochemical power sources, technology producing, purifying, storing and transporting hydrogen, including the extra-pure hydrogen, termosorbtsionnye hydrogen compressors of various capacities, medium and high pressure Design bureau "Vimpel" Nizhny Novgorod 1927 design for all requirements, including foreign ones, classification societies and technical maintenance of the vessels of various types and purposes Central Design Bureau for Hydrofoil them. R.E. Alekseeva Nizhny Novgorod 1951 development of ground effect vehicle, hydrofoils, hovercraft, boats Northern Design Bureau Saint Petersburg 1946 design surface warships (cruisers, destroyers, frigates, corvettes and boats) Design bureau Krylov Saint Petersburg St. Petersburg Naval Machinery Bureau "Malachite" Academician N.N. Isanina Saint Petersburg 1948 drafting submarines Rubin Design Bureau Saint Petersburg 1926 designing submarines as diesel-electric and nuclear Central Design Bureau "Iceberg" Saint Petersburg 1947 designing powerful icebreakers for Arctic icebreaking cargo ships, multipurpose icebreakers-procurers for offshore oil, multipurpose offshore vessels and supply vessels offshore oil, floating bases for technical and general service vessels with nuclear power plants, port icebreakers, research and hydrographic vessels Central Marine Design Bureau "Almaz" Saint Petersburg 1949 designing high-speed boats, surface ships small and medium displacement, amphibious hovercraft, ship anti-mine defense, as well as ships and special purpose ships and floating docks Research Design and Technological Bureau "Onega" Severodvinsk 1975 Technological and design software repair, recovery and conversion of technical readiness of nuclear submarines, diesel-electric submarines and surface ships
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