Sevmashpredpriyatie [Sevmash] Shipyard (Severodvinsk) | production, shipbuilding, atomic power engineering

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Shipyard No. 402 : Sevmashpredpriyatie [Sevmash]
Northern Mashinebuilding Enterprise
Home to the 16th brigade of ships under construction and repair (Severodvinsk)

The state Plant SEVMASH is a well-equipped shipbuilding complex located in Severodvinsk that builds and repairs submarines. Initially known as Shipyard No. 402, the State Unitary Enterprise "Proizvodstvennoye Ob´edineniye "Severnoye Mashinostroitelnoe Predpriyatiye" [Sevmashpredpriyatie] is commonly known as Sevmash - Severnoye [Northern] Mashinebuilding Enterprise. Sevmash built the K-3 (called "Leninskiy Komsomol"), which was the first Soviet nuclear powered submarine.

Russian nuclear submarine production is now centered at Sevmash. As of mid-1998 three nuclear-powered submarines were under construction: the first fourth-generation strategic Borei-class ballistic submarine; a Severodvinsk-class "multi purpose" prototype submarine, and one Akula-class attack submarine. The Yuri Dolgoruki, the first of the Borei-class strategic ballistic missile submarines, is intended to replace the obsolete submarines being dismantled with Nunn-Lugar funds. It will have about half the displacement of the giant Typhoon, while carrying 20 SLBMs. The fourth-generation Project 885 Severodvinsk, which was laid down on 21 December 1993, is the follow-on to the Akula class of multipurpose nuclear attack submarine.

In early November 1999, it was reported that India and Russia had signed an agreement to sell the Admiral Gorshkov heavy cruiser [the last Kiev-class vessels] to the Indian Navy. The ship is to be modified into an ordinary-type aircraft carrier to provide takeoff operations for the MiG-29K deck fighters. Reportedly, the Nevskoye marine design bureau and the SevMash shipyard will conduct the ship's modifications over a two and a half year period.

Workers at SevMash built Russia's Typhoon-class subs, the world's largest. Sevmash is engaged in the work of cutting up and dismantling Russian strategic nuclear missile-carrier submarines, including those of the Typhoon class. US officials awarded a contract on 02 September 1999 to SevMash for the dismantlement of a Typhoon-class submarine. Presiouvsly submarines were being only at the Zvyozdochka (Zvezdochka) plant, located across the bay from Sevmash.

Sevmash built a passenger-carrying tourist submarine, Neptun, in 1991. It worked in the Caribbean for three years before returning to Russia for repairs in 1996. The yard's work also includes domestic and foreign commercial contracts for oil and gas industry equipment and installations.

In May 1992, the ZAO [private joint-stock company] Rosshelf was created for the development of oil and gas fields in the Arctic seas. Combining Russian defense enterprises for submarine construction and the largest domestic oil and gas geological companies, the company includes some of the largest Russian fuel and energy and defense enterprises: the RAO [Russian joint-stock company] Gazprom, Arkhangelskgeologiya, the production association Sevmash, the Cherepovets Metallurgical Combine, the design bureaus Rubin, Malakhit, and Lazurit, and others.

Rosshelf was issued a license for working the most promising fields of the Barents Sea—: the Prirazlomnyy Oil and Shtokmanovskiy Gas Condensate Fields. By the beginning of 1997 Gazprom and Rosshelf had invested about R300 billion in northern projects. Of this, R200 billion went for the needs of the northwestern region of the Russian Federation, including for reconstruction of defense enterprises in Severodvinsk.

Arkhangelskoye shosse 58, Severodvinsk, 164500. Russia
Tel (81842) 94962, 61441,
tel/fax +4778916122
telex 242144 IAGRY RU

www.sevmash.ru/eng/