Severnaya Verf

The busy Saint Petersburg docks at dawn

Severnaya Verf (Northern Shipyard) is a shipyard in Saint Petersburg, Russia and a major shipyard producing naval and civilian ships. It was founded for exclusive military shipbuilding.

The shipyard used to be known as Soviet Shipyard No. 190,^[1] and between 1935–1989 as Zhdanov Shipyard.

The priority market for Severnaya shipyard is military export to Asian countries as India, China and Vietnam.

History

The shipyard was established in the early 1900s as the Severnaya Verf (Severny shipyard) which is part of the Severnaya Verf Production Association. This association also includes an electrodes factory with a capacity of 20,000 tons annually and a furniture factory.^[1]

The stamp issued to commemorate the centenary of Severnaya Verf. Russian Post, 2012.

Under the name Zhdanov Shipyard, various classes of destroyers and ASW frigates were built here to include:

• Late 1940s, the Skoryy class destroyer
• During the 1950s, the Kotlin class destroyer
• Late 1950s, the Kanin class destroyer and the modified Kildin class guided missile destroyer
• During the 1960s, the Kashin class guided missile destroyer and Kynda and Kresta I class cruiser
• During the 1970s, the Krivak class frigate and Kresta II class cruiser
• Late 1970s, the Sovremenny class destroyer
• Early 1980s, the Udaloy class destroyer
• During 2000s, the Steregushchy class corvette
• During 2010s, the Admiral Sergey Gorshkov class frigate ^[2]

Facilities and services

As of 1998, the shipyard included:^[1]

• four slips in covered-in-births with the capacity to construct vessels with a maximum length of 170 meters (560 ft) and width of up to 20.5 meters (67 ft). Slipways are equipped with cranes with a lifting capacity of 50 tons;
• four open-air slipways with the capacity to construct vessels with a maximum length of 170 meters (560 ft) and width of 24 meters (79 ft), and are equipped with cranes with a lifting capacity from 30 to 100 tons;
• launch-hoisting facilities with floating dock that has a lifting capacity of 10,000 tons and a transborder, which is able to launch and hoist vessels from and to any slipway.

Notable classes and vessels

See also

• List of ships of Russia by project number
• List of Soviet and Russian submarine classes
• Admiralty Shipyard
• Baltic Shipyard

References

External links

• Official site
• "Naval Construction Programs 1995". Robin J. Lee, State of the Russian Navy. 1995. Retrieved 2008-06-10.  External link in |publisher= (help)
• "Severnaya Verf". Federation of American Scientists. 1998. Retrieved 2008-06-10. 

Saint Petersburg Navy structures
Military educational institutions	N.G. Kuznetsov Naval Academy
Military research institutes and design offices	Malachite design office
The military ship-building and ship-repair enterprises	Admiralty Shipyard Almaz Shipbuilding Company Baltic Shipyard Rubin Design Bureau Severnaya Verf Severnoe Design Bureau
Part of Leningrad Naval base	Saint Petersburg Kronstadt Petergof Priozersk Vysotsk