Baltic Shipyard

Baltic Shipyard

The Baltic Shipyard (Baltiysky Zavod, formerly Shipyard-189) (Russian: Балтийский завод имени С. Орджоникидзе) is one of the oldest shipyards in Russia. 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 merchant ships while the Admiralty yard specializes in diesel-electric submarines.

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History

The shipyard was founded in 1856 by the St. Peterburg merchant M. Carr and the Scotsman M. L. MacPherson. It subsequently became the Carr and MacPherson yard.[1] In 1864 it built two monitors of the Uragan class.[1] In 1874 the shipyard was sold to Prince Ochtomski.[1]

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. The Soviets renamed the shipyard Numbered Zavod 189 'im. Sergo Ordzhonikidze' on 30 December 1936.

May 1900: Launch of the battleship Pobieda in Baltic Shipyard

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c Polmar, Norman; Noot, Jurrien (1991). "Submarine building yards" (Google Books). Submarines of the Russian and Soviet Navies, 1718-1990 (illustrated ed.). Naval Institute Press,. pp. 325–326. ISBN 0870215701. http://books.google.com/books?id=7cDN8q2RHGMC&pg=PP1&dq=polmar+soviet+submarines&ei=dmx4SunkLYHENdXysUw#v=onepage&q=shipyard%20leningrad&f=false. Retrieved 2009-07-05. 

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Coordinates: 59°55′53″N 30°15′29″E / 59.93139°N 30.25806°E / 59.93139; 30.25806


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