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Compared to the role played by Kamchatka Peninsula and Primorskiy Kray facilities, the submarine activities located in Khabarovsk Kray are geared more toward production and less towards operations. Even so, the role of the Amurksiy Zavod in Komsomolsk-na-Amure has declined significantly following the 1994 decision to end the production of nuclear-powered submarines there. Although two vessels are still being completed at the plant (with one at 80 percent completion and the other at 60 percent completion as of fall 1999), this decision presages a long and steady decline for the Pacific Fleet's nuclear submarine fleet. With all new SSBN and SSN production now concentrated at Sevmash in Severodvinsk (in the Arkhangelsk Oblast on the southern shore of the White Sea), it is highly unlikely that new submarines will be devoted in any significant numbers to the Pacific Fleet. There is one former submarine base at Zavety Ilyicha. The small fleet of nuclear submarines that operated from this base have already been decommissioned, and as of April 2001 were scheduled for transport to Zvezda Shipyard for dismantlement. The Amurskiy Zavod is currently engaging in attempts to find more civilian,
commercial contracts, especially in the oil and gas sector. The factory
also recently participated in the construction of a Japanese-funded liquid
nuclear waste filtration plant, which was completed and delivered to Bolshoy
Kamen in late fall 1997 and began operating in December 2000.
Page last updated 13 August 2001 
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