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LOCATION: Nizhniy Novgorod
Address: 57 ulitsa Svodbody, Nizhniy Novgorod, 603040
Telephone: 831/225-8400
Fax: 831/225-1329
SUBORDINATION:
While the Lazurit Central Design Bureau 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.
[Russian Government Decree No. 878, Voprosy Rossiyskogo agentstva po sudostroyeniyu, 30 July 1999; in The Legislation in Russia, http://law.optima.ru.]{Updated 2/10/2000 CC}
ADMINISTRATION:
Director: Nikolay Kvash
[D. Walsh, "Appendix B: Lazurit Central Design Bureau," Research Submersibles and Undersea Technologies, World Technology Center Panel Report, June 1994, http://itri.loyola.edu/subsea/b-lazuri.htm]
ACTIVITIES:
The Lazurit Central Design Bureau, founded in 1953, evolved from Special Design Bureau No. 143. It has designed 41 submarines, including 21 nuclear submarines. While it no longer designs nuclear submarines for the Russian Navy, its past design products include the single-reactor Charlie-class SSGN and Sierra-class SSN.[1, 2, 3]  Lazurit is attempting to commercialize its activities, which consist of, among other things, a 130,000-ton nuclear-powered cargo submarine.  In this submarine, a transpolar trip from Japan to Europe would take approximately ten days, a reported 15 days faster than by surface ship. [4]  Lazurit has also been responsible for some of the theoretical planning associated with nuclear submarine dismantlement.[5]
Sources:
[1] Valery Marinin, "Nuclear Submarine Construction in Russia," Military Parade, March-April 1995, pp. 114-119.
[2] Oleg Bukharin and Joshua Handler, "Russian Nuclear-Powered Submarine Decommissioning, Science and Global Security, vol. 5, p. 249.
[3] Igor Spassky, "Submarines of the 21st Centruy," Military Parade, September-October 1997, pp. 80-87.
[4] D. Walsh, "Appendix B: Lazurit Central Design Bureau," Research Submersibles and Undersea Technologies, World Technology Center Panel Report, June 1994, http://itri.loyola.edu/subsea/b-lazuri.htm.
[5] Thomas Nilsen, Igor Kudrik, and Alexandr Nikitin, "Decommissioning of nuclear submarines," The Russian Northern Fleet, Bellona Foundation, http://www.bellona.no/e/russia/nfl/nfl6.htm.
 
LAZURIT CENTRAL DESIGN BUREAU DEVELOPMENTS:
 
1/22/98:  LAZURIT RADIOACTIVE WASTE DUMPING SYMPOSIUM CLOSES
Russia's Lazurit Central Design Bureau in Nizhniy Novgorod hosted an international symposium on nuclear waste dumping at sea, which ended on 22 January 1998.  Scientists from the United States, Russia, Sweden, France, Iceland, and Romania presented follow on papers to Russia's White Book, published by the Russian presidential commission on ecology.
["Nuclear Waste Symposium Ends," Industry News, 23 January 1998, Solid Waste Online, http://news.solidwaste.com/.../19980123-923.html]
 

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