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St. Petersburg
Address: 16 Kosaya liniya, St. Petersburg
199106
Telephone: 812-324-9370
Fax: 812-327-7190
E-mail: info@bz.ru
http://www.bz.ru
While the Baltic Shipyard has been privatized, it
remains subject to state policies regarding military and civilian production
promulgated by the Russian
Shipbuilding Agency, and a share of its stocks are held by the state.
General Director: Oleg Borisovich Shulyakovskiy
Deputy General Director: E.I. Koshelev
Deputy Manager: Y.I. Lopatin
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Formerly known as Shipyard 189, the Baltic Shipyard
constructed nuclear surface vessels, including nuclear icebreakers.[1]
Projects at the Baltic Shipyard, also known as Baltiyskiy Zavod, include
a
floating nuclear power plant for the Russian Far East,
underground
NPPs, and the 50
Let Pobedy (50 Years of Victory) Arktika-class
nuclear icebreaker. As of 1998,
the Russian Ministry of Defense had not disbursed the funds necessary to
finish it and has still not paid for the nuclear-powered cruiser Petr
Velikiy (Peter the Great),
also built at the Baltic Shipyard.[2] (For
more information on the 50 Let Pobedy, see the 3/2/2000
entry below. (For information on icebreaker developments please see the General
Civilian Naval Reactor Developments file.)
4/18/2002: BALTIC SHIPYARD TO
UPGRADE ITS FACILITIES, BUILD FRIGATES FOR INDIAN NAVY
The Baltic Shipyard plans to
overhaul its production line in a move that Baltic Director Oleg Shulyakovskiy says will reduce the time necessary to
fulfill contracts by 25 percent. The modernization project is estimated to cost
around $340 million and will take until 2006. In the meantime, the shipyard
is continuing work on the nuclear icebreaker 50 Let Pobedy, as well as
three frigates for the Indian Navy, the Talwar, Trishul, and Tabar.
The first of these frigates is due to be delivered to the Indian Navy in May. It
has already completed a series of tests of its state-of-the-art weapons systems,
including the Club-N anti-ship missile complex, the Puma-Universal artillery
system, and the Kashtan anti-aircraft system. According to Shulyakovskiy, the
ship will be fitted with foreign equipment; for instance, navigation and
communication systems were supplied by India.
1/19/2002: BALTIC SHIPYARD TO BUILD TWO
DESTROYERS FOR CHINA
On 19 January 2002, a state commission headed by
Russian Shipbuilding Agency Director Vladimir Pospelov chose the
Baltic Shipyard over St. Petersburg's Severnaya Verf and Kaliningrad's Yantar
Shipyard to build two destroyers for China.[1] Rosoboroneksport, the state arms export agency,
signed a $1.4 billion contract for the
manufacture of two Project 956EM destroyers on 3 January 2002. Although the
Shipbuilding Agency had originally decided to give the contract to Severnaya
Verf, the Baltic Shipyard and
Polimetall (an
industrial group that owns a controlling share of the BalticShipyard), had sufficient
political influence to get the agency to reconsider its decision [2]
12/5/2001: RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT INCREASES FINANCING
OF 50 LET POBEDY
On 5 December 2001, Baltic Shipyard general director Oleg Shulyakovskiy
announced that the Russian government plans to allocate 400 million rubles
(over $13.3 million as of 5 December 2001) in 2002 for construction of
the Arktika-class nuclear icebreaker 50 Let Pobedy. In 2001, the
shipyard received 200 million rubles (over $6.6 million as of 5 December 2001)
from the government for the icebreaker's construction. 50 Let Pobedy is
70% complete and about 2 billion rubles (over $66.7 million as of 5 December
2001) are needed to finish the icebreaker.
8/25-27/2001: NUCLEAR REACTORS INSTALLED ON 50
LET POBEDY
Between 25 and 27 July 2001, the Baltic Shipyard installed two nuclear reactors on
the 50 Let Pobedy icebreaker. Nuclear fuel will
be loaded after the installation of a radiation protection system and pipelines is
complete.[1,2] In 2001, the shipyard received 150 million rubles (about $5.1
million as of 27 July 2001) for the icebreaker's construction. Another 2.2
billion rubles (almost $75 million as of 27 July 2001) is needed to finish
it.[2]
11/24/2000 BALTIC SHIPYARD LAUNCHES SECOND WARSHIP FOR
INDIA
On 24 November 2000, the Baltic shipyard launched the
Trishul, a frigate built for the Indian Navy. This warship, based on the
Krivak frigate, is equipped with a Ka-31 Helix helicopter landing pad, the
Shtil/Uragan surface-to-air
missile system, a 100mm dual-purpose gun, two Kashtan close-in weapons
systems, and torpedoes. The vessel's top speed is 30 knots.[1,2] This is the second
of three
warships to be built under a contract signed in 1997 between Rosvooruzheniye
and the Indian Defense Ministry. The first frigate, the Talwar (also
referred to as the Mech in some sources), was launched in
May 2000. It is now undergoing tests. Delivery to India is scheduled for April 2002. The last ship,
the Toofan (also referred to as the Palash in some sources), was under construction
as of November 2000 and is
scheduled to be delivered in June 2003.[2,3] The estimated value
of the contract is approximately $1 billion.[1]
10/13/2000 BALTIC SHIPYARD MAY BUILD SHIPS
FOR NORWAY
On 13 October 2000, Baltic Shipyard signed a
protocol with the Norwegian company Chili Navigation Ltd. on manufacturing
a line of ships that would be used to service offshore oil drilling platforms. The contract
for the first ship may be signed in the end of October. The manufacture of
eight ships, at a total cost of $160 million, is under discussion.[1] The Norwegians will provide
the basic design and the
shipyard will prepare the documentation for the ships' manufacture.[2]
10/13/2000 BALTIC SHIPYARD CHANGES OWNERSHIP AGAIN
On 13 October 2000, the joint stock company IST (Investitsii-Stroitelstvo-Tekhnologii, or
Investments-Construction-Technologies) purchased
35% of
Baltic Shipyard's shares. Together with the 15% that the company already
owned, the purchase resulted in the ownership of 50% plus one share and put IST in
control of the shipyard.[1] At a June 2000 shareholder meeting, two IST representatives
were allowed to join the shipyard's board of directors. From 1993 through 1997,
IST owned a controlling share of the shipyard and IST founder
Aleksandr Nesis was the head of the board of directors. Originally, IST
acquired the shipyard shares through the voucher privatization process at very
low prices; when it sold them in October 1997, it made more than $20
million. IST sold the shares because ONEKSIM Bank and Inkombank had mounted struggles for control of the shipyard,
and the shipyard required major investments.[2] In 1998, Baltic
Shipyard Director Oleg Shulyakovskiy used funds from a contract to construct
frigates for India to buy 50% of the shipyard shares from ONEKSIM Bank; he later distributed
those shares among three companies closely tied to the shipyard's management. Law enforcement organizations
have initiated an investigation regarding this transaction.[3] Igor Makurin, IST's deputy director
of public relations, said that IST plans to invest $40
million in modernization of the shipyard.[4] The shipyard's other significant shareholders
include Mezhregionalnyy Investitsionnyy Bank (around 17%), Inkombank (around
9%), and OOO Balt-Finans (10.2%). The Russian state owns a "golden
share," which means that it has special rights, such as the power to veto
certain management decisions, regardless of the number of shares it owns.[5]
6/3/2000 UNDERGROUND NPPS
PROPOSED FOR KALININGRAD OBLAST, THE KOLA PENINSULA, AND PRIMORSKIY KRAY
The subterranean thermal nuclear electric power plants
proposed for Kaliningrad Oblast, the Kola Peninsula, and Primorskiy Kray
are to be manufactured by the Baltic Shipyard in cooperation with other
St. Petersburg enterprises. See the 6/3/2000
entry in the Nuclear
Power Developments section for more information.
3/2/2000: 50 LET
POBEDY TO RECEIVE $10.5 MILLION THROUGH 2003
On 2 March 2000 Bellona reported that the Russian
government would earmark $3.5 million annually for the next three years
to complete the Arktika-class nuclear icebreaker 50 Let Pobedy
(50
Years of Victory). Construction, which began in 1989, was originally
scheduled for completion in 1994; however, due to a lack of funding and
a reduction of cargo shipments in the Arctic, construction was scaled back.
According to Baltic Shipyard General Director Oleg Shulyakovskiy, $25 million
per year is necessary to finish construction by 2003. (For more information
on Russian icebreakers, see the Russian
icebreakers overview section of the database. For details about reactor
type and power output of the icebreaker fleet, see the table on Russia's
icebreaker fleet.)
1/29/98: TWO ST. PETERSBURG SHIPYARDS TO MERGE
Oneksimbank has announced plans to combine two of
St. Petersburg's three major shipyards, the Baltic Shipyard and Severnaya
Verf, into one company, the Unified Baltic Shipyard. Oneksimbank
has called on the general director of the Baltic Shipyard, Oleg Shulyakovskiy,
to head the new enterprise. According to Shulyakovskiy and Viktor
Volostnykh, head of Severnaya Verf's department of strategic planning,
the new enterprise will combine the powerful machine-building equipment
at the Baltic Shipyard with the superior building slips at Severnaya Verf
for more efficient production. Shulyakovskiy also noted that the
two shipyards already share technical policies, supply orders, financial
management, and marketing. The Russian Ministry of Defense owes both
shipyards together a total of nearly 126 million rubles ($21 million),
and Baltic Shipyard alone owes workers six weeks of back pay. Both
of the shipyards rely heavily on foreign orders for their income and have
more than enough orders to fill. Foreign clients include India, China,
and Hungary. Click here for more information on Russian
nuclear and missile exports to India.
Page last updated 18 June 2002
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