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The Leninska Kuznya Shipyard (Ukrainian: Завод "Ленінська кузня", Russian: Завод "Ленинская кузница", Leninskaya kuznitsa) is the major shipbuilding facility in Kiev, capital of Ukraine. The shipyard specializes in shipbuilding, ship machines building, and propeller production.[1]
In the field of shipbuilding, the plant specializes in building medium fishing vessels and industrial ships and vessels of technical fleet, self-propelled and non-self propelled barges.[1] Machine building includes steam and hot-water automated boiler units, plate freezing apparatuses, and incinerators.[1] Propeller production includes variable pitch propellers, CPP blades, lines of shafting.[1]
[edit] History
It was founded in 1862 by production engineer Mr.Donat Fyodor Grigorievich as a Joint Stock Company. It was mainly a mechanical plant and made different metal structures. For a short period of time (1889-1924) plant was named Kiev Machine-Building Plant and in 1924 it was renamed to Leninska Kuznya. In 1928 by the Decree of Supreme Soviet Union Leninska Kuznya was made into a shipyard. In 1995 company completed a change in ownership and open-type joint Stock Company was set up named Leninska Kuznya Plant. The machine building sector still constitutes a high percentage in general scope of production.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ a b c d e Bart Finzel and Jelena Kmezic, Privatization of Ukrainian Shipyards (2002), Catholic University of Brussels, 11th Conference of the International Association for the Economics of Participation (IAFEP)
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