Admiralty Shipyard (incld. Sudomekh) (Saint Petersburg)

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Obedineniye "Admiralteyskiye Verfi" : Admiralty Shipyard Joint Stock Company
Leningradskoye Admiralteyskoye obedineniye (LAO)

The Admiralty Shipyard (Admiralty Wharves) (Russian: Адмиралтейские верфи) (formerly Soviet Shipyard No. 194) is one of the oldest and largest shipyards in Russia, located in Saint Petersburg. The shipyard's building ways can accommodate ships of up to 70,000 metric tons deadweight (DWT), 250 meters in length and 35 meters in width. Military products include naval warships such as nuclear and diesel-powered submarines and large auxiliaries.

The Admiralty yard in St. Petersburg is one of the oldest and largest shipyards in Russia. Admiralty became a joint-stock company in the mid-1990s. It was established as the New Admiralty yard in 1800, supplementing and soon replacing the Main Admiralty yard that had been founded in the center of the city a century earlier, and was transferred to its current location as the Admiralty Shipyard in 1908. It was a major builder of battleships in the 19th century and submarines and cruisers in the 20th. In 1972 the adjacent Sudomekh Ship Yard to the south, which specialized in submarine construction, was incorporated into the enlarged United Admiralty site.

Since the mid-1950s its surface-ship facilities have specialized in large merchant ships, icebreakers, large rescue and salvage ships, fish-factory ships, floating dry docks, and a few naval auxiliaries (notably the three large missile range support ships of the Marshal Nedelin class).

Military shipbuilding consists of orders from the Russian Ministry of Defense and export orders for foreign governments. The shipyard's military orders are primarily submarines, but also include non-military repair, modernization and building of other underwater technical innovations for oceanic development.

Between 1973 and 1998 the shipyard built 41 submarines. In 1992 Iran agreed to pay $600 million to the United Admiralty Sudomekh shipyard in St. Petersburg for two Kilo-class submarines, with an option to buy a third. The construction of underwater vessels constitutes 70% of the total production volume of the shipyard.

Admiralty has produced numerous specialized submersibles, including the civilian Sever-2 (1969), Tinro-2 (1972), Bentos (1975-1982), Tetis (1976), Osa, Argus, and Osmotr (1988) types, plus the naval Lima, Uniform, Xray, Beluga, and Paltus classes. Those most recently built include Kilo type submarines (2,325 tons D/W) and the smaller Lada type (1,600 D/W). The shipyard's latest development is the Amur class submarine, a variant of the Lada class designed for export.

Opposite is a Russian Whiskey Class submarine S-189 (project 613) now moored in the Neva River in Saint-Petersburg, Russia (July 2007) across from the Admiralty Yard having been turned into a floating submarine museum of the work of the Yard.

Naberezhnaya Reki Fontanki, 203
190008, St Petersburg, Russia
Telephone: (011-7-812) 114-09-81

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