Yantar Shipyard (russian: Прибалтийский судостроительный завод «Янтарь») is a Russian shipbuilding company based in

Kaliningrad Kaliningrad ( ; rus, Калининград, p=kəlʲɪnʲɪnˈɡrat, links=y), until 1946 known as Königsberg (; rus, Кёнигсберг, Kyonigsberg, ˈkʲɵnʲɪɡzbɛrk; rus, Короле́вец, Korolevets), is the largest city and ...

, Russia. Yantar Shipyard builds military ships, including antisubmarine and patrol craft, as well as civil vessels such as fishing trawlers and seiners. It is a part of the

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. Before 1945, it was the

Königsberg Königsberg (, ) was the historic Prussian city that is now Kaliningrad, Russia. Königsberg was founded in 1255 on the site of the ancient Old Prussian settlement ''Twangste'' by the Teutonic Knights during the Northern Crusades, and was name ...

unit of the German

Schichau-Werke The Schichau-Werke (F. Schichau, Maschinen- und Lokomotivfabrik, Schiffswerft und Eisengießerei GmbH) was a German engineering works and shipyard based in Elbing, Germany (now Elbląg, Poland) on the Frisches Haff (Vistula Lagoon) of then- Eas ...

shipbuilding company. The shipyard's facilities allow it to construct vessels of up to 20,000 tonnes DWT. Between 1945 and 2010 it has built more than 100 large and 400 small civilian ships.

History

Before 1945, the shipyard was the

unit of the

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shipbuilding company. Following

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, the shipyard was absorbed into the

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state enterprise and operated as a government shipyard. Sometime following the Dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, the shipyard became a part of the

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2010s, Project 11356

In the early 2010s the shipyard started a series labeled Project 11356 for the Indian Navy. The lead frigate under the name '' Admiral Grigorovich'' was laid down in mid-December 2010 and was expected to be ready in November 2014. , a total of six ships (including the ''Admiral Essen'', the '' Admiral Makarov'', the ''Admiral Butakov'', the ''Admiral Istomin'' and the ''Admiral Kornikov'') were slated to join the Black Sea Fleet by 2017. The ''Admiral Butikov'' (serial number 01360) was launched on 2 March 2016. The ''Admiral Istomin'' (serial number 01361) and the ''Admiral Kornikov'' (serial number 01362) were launched in 2H2017, "mainly to make room in the construction dry docks", but had no superstructures and the hulls were incomplete. The construction of the second group of three frigates was suspended in 2017 by the Russian Navy due to absence of the gas-turbine power plants, which were originally ordered from a Ukrainian supplier. Although the Russian state

had said in 2015 that the frigates would have Russian-made engines, Russia was unable to provide those in time.

References

External links

Official website
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