Baltic Shipyard

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The Baltic Shipyard (Baltiysky Zavod, formerly Shipyard-189) (Russian: Балтийский завод имени С. Орджоникидзе) is one of the oldest shipyards in Russia. Founded in 1856, it is located in Saint Petersburg in the south-western part of the Vasilievsky Island. It is one of the three shipyards active in Saint Petersburg. Together with the Admiralty Shipyard it has been responsible for building a large part of Imperial Russian battleships as well as Soviet nuclear powered icebreakers. Currently it is specializing in nuclear powered ships while the Admiralty yard specializes in submarines.

In 1934 the shipyard started work on the three prototypes for the Soviet S class submarine, based on a German design produced by the Dutch company Ingenieurskantoor voor Scheepsbouw.

[edit] See also

• Peresviet class battleship
• Borodino class battleship
• Borodino class battlecruiser
• Andrei Pervozvanny class battleship
• Gangut class battleship
• Kronshtadt class battlecruiser
• Sverdlov class cruiser
• Russian cruiser Pyotr Velikiy
• Taimyr class nuclear icebreaker
• Dekabrist class submarine
• Baltijos Laivų Statykla in Lithuania
• Arktika class icebreaker

[edit] External links

• Home page (English)
• Baltiysky Zavod JSC at Federation of American Scientists
• Russia: Baltic Shipyard