Zelenodolsk Shipyard

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JSC Zelenodolsk Plant named after A.M. Gorky
Native name
Russian: ОАО Зеленодольский завод им. А.М. Горького
Open Joint Stock Company
Industry Shipbuilding, defence
Founded1895;124 years ago (1895)
Headquarters,
Area served
worldwide
Key people
Sergei Valerievich Ilin (Chairman)
Renat Iskanderovich Mistakhov (CEO) [1]
Revenue$551 million [2]  (2017)
Parent Ak Bars Holding
Website www.zdship.ru

JSC Zelenodolsk Shipyard is a shipbuilding company based in Zelenodolsk, Russia. It is part of the Ak Bars Holding. [3]

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History

Zelenodolsk Plant became an important military shipbuilder when equipment was evacuated there from the western USSR early in World War II and the yard began building Artillerist-class submarine chasers. [4]

After the war, the shipyard specialized in building submarine chaser and small escort ship classes designed by its collocated design bureau, including the Kronshtadt, SO-1, Poti, and Grisha classes. Following expansion of the yard in the early 1970s, Zelenodolsk Plant produced the larger escorts of the Koni class, which was intended exclusively for export. The Koni class was succeeded by the Gepard class. [4]

Kronshtadt-class submarine chaser submarine chaser class by the Soviet Union

Project 122bis submarine chasers were a Soviet design which were exported throughout the communist bloc in the 1950s. The first ship, BO-270, was built at Zelenodolsk in 1945-1947 and a total of 227 were built for Soviet Navy (175) and border guard until 1955. As well as this, twenty Project 357 despatch vessels were built on the same hull, but were lightly armed.

Poti-class corvette ship class

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Grisha-class corvette class of Soviet anti-submarine corvettes

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Zelenodolsk Plant also built the large missile-armed surface effect ships of the Dergach class (designed by the Almaz Central Marine Design Bureau in St. Petersburg), as well as some naval auxiliaries. It has generally also had at least one civilian ship type in production, including Zelenodolsk-class river tugs in the 1950s, Meteor-type passenger hydrofoils (designed in Nizhniy Novgorod) and Caspian Sea trawlers during the 1960s, and 3,700-ton Tatarstan-class refrigerator ships for the fishing industry in the 1970s. [4]

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Almaz Central Marine Design Bureau company based in Saint Petersburg, Russia

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References

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  2. "Рейтинг крупнейших компаний России по объему реализации продукции". Expert RA. Archived from the original on 28 October 2018. Retrieved 28 October 2018.
  3. "Zelenodolsk shipyard lays down two high-speed passenger ships of Project А145Е designed by Agat Design Bureau LLC for UAE". portnews.ru. Retrieved 30 August 2017.
  4. 1 2 3 "Russian Defense Business Directory". Federation of American Scientists. US Department of Commerce Bureau of Export Administration. May 1995. Retrieved 21 July 2017.PD-icon.svgThis article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.