The Middle Neva Shipbuilding Plant (russian: Средне-Невский судостроительный завод, Sredne-Nevskiy sudostroitelnyy zavod) was founded before the end of the 19th century in
Saint Petersburg
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,
Russia
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. In 1917 it employed 17,000 people. It established a branch in
Nikolaev in the early years of the 20th century to assemble ships which had been built in St. Petersburg and transported to the
Black Sea
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.
[Breyer, p. 144] It is part of the
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History
The Middle Neva shipyard, located near the junction of the
Izhora
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and
Neva
The Neva (russian: Нева́, ) is a river in northwestern Russia flowing from Lake Ladoga through the western part of Leningrad Oblast (historical region of Ingria) to the Neva Bay of the Gulf of Finland. Despite its modest length of , it ...
rivers in the
Kolpino district of southern St. Petersburg, is an important builder of mine warfare ships for the Russian navy. The yard probably dates back to 1911, when the
Saint Petersburg Metals Plant, then a builder of marine turbines, established a shipyard at
Ust-Izhora
Ust-Izhora (russian: Усть-Ижо́ра) is a municipal settlement in Kolpinsky District of the federal city of St. Petersburg, Russia, situated at the confluence of the Izhora and Neva Rivers, and is roughly equidistant to St. P ...
to build destroyers.
Between the world wars the Ust-Izhora yard was limited to the construction of river barges. It was expanded into a major builder of minesweepers and other small combatants after World War II and built ships of the steel-hulled
T-43,
T-58,
Yurka, and
Natya classes in the 1950s and 1960s. It has also built a few large tugs and small tankers for service as naval auxiliaries.
Around 1970 it began to experiment with glass-reinforced plastic and subsequently built a few
Zhenya-class minesweepers and many
Yevgenya- and Lida-class inshore minesweepers. It also built hydrofoils of the
Matka and
Turya
The Turya (russian: Турья́) is a river in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia. It is a right tributary of the Sosva (river), Sosva. It is long, with a drainage basin of .
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classes and
Tarantul-class missile corvettes.
Today it is offering several types of ships on the civil market similar to its minesweeper classes, including ships of up to 100 tons with glass-reinforced plastic hulls, steel-hulled ships of up to 800 tons, and similar ships built with low-magnetic steel.
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Bibliography
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Links
Official site
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United Shipbuilding Corporation
Shipbuilding companies of the Soviet Union
Manufacturing companies based in Saint Petersburg
Companies nationalised by the Soviet Union