The Soviet Union and later Russian nuclear submarine program involved a
variety of industrial enterprises and research, design, and production
centers, including the world's largest shipbuilding center at the Northern
Machine-Building Enterprise at Severodvinsk, also known as
Sevmash.
In addition to Sevmash, nuclear submarine production occurred at the Amurskiy
Zavod shipyard in Komsomolsk-Na-Amure, the Krasnoye
Sormovo shipyard in Nizhniy Novgorod, and at Admiralteyskiye
Verfi in St. Petersburg. The program consisted of three design
facilities: the Rubin and Malakhit
Central Marine-Engineering Design Bureaus in St. Petersburg, and the Lazurit
Central Design Bureau in Nizhniy Novgorod. Nuclear submarine
construction no longer occurs at Krasnoye Sormovo or at Admiralteyskiye
Verfi; Sevmash is expected to host the entire nuclear submarine production
program in the future.[1]
The new Borey-class SSBN, the Yuriy Dolgorukiy, is under
construction at Sevmash, although progress has been slowed by insufficient
funding. (See the SSBN
Force Developments file for more information.) Sevmash is also home
to production of the fourth-generation SSN Severodvinsk, or Project
885, and SSGN Oscar IIs, or Project 949A. Cuts in defense
spending halted plans for building a fourth generation SSGN.[2]
In addition to nuclear submarine facilities, the Russian Navy also possesses
the Baltic Shipyard, where construction of nuclear-powered
surface vessels takes place.[2]
Sources: [1] Valery Marinin, "Nuclear Submarine Construction in Russia,"
Military
Parade, March-April 1995, pp. 114-119. [2] Robin Lee, "Ongoing Naval Construction Programs," State
of the Russian Navy Data Page, http://www.webcom.com/~amraam/build.html#shipyards. [3] Thomas Nilsen, Igor Kudrik, and Alexandr Nikitin, "Chapter
2: Nuclear-powered vessels," The Russian Northern Fleet, The Bellona
Foundation, online edition, 28 August 1996, p. 3.
Page last updated 17 April 1998
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