The Kronstadt Marine Plant (russian: Кронштадтский морской завод), originally established as 'Parokhodnyi mekhanicheskii z-d goroda Kronshtadta' (russian: Пароходный завод), is a shipbuilding and repair center. It became the main repair center for the

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around 1900. By 1914 there were two

dry dock A dry dock (sometimes drydock or dry-dock) is a narrow basin or vessel that can be flooded to allow a load to be floated in, then drained to allow that load to come to rest on a dry platform. Dry docks are used for the construction, maintenance, ...

s, but no building slips. Operational 1917–1920; one of three military plants in the 1930s that produced munitions and torpedoes; arms parts and munitions during wartime. Currently part of the

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Official website
{{Imperial Russian Shipyards United Shipbuilding Corporation Companies based in Saint Petersburg Shipbuilding companies of the Soviet Union Companies nationalised by the Soviet Union Cultural heritage monuments in Saint Petersburg Kronstadt