Amur Shipbuilding Plant

Amur Shipbuilding Plant
Company typeOpen joint-stock company
IndustryShipbuilding
Headquarters
Komsomolsk-on-Amur
,
Russia
Revenue$198 million[1] (2017)
−$5.59 million[1] (2017)
−$28 million[1] (2017)
Total assets$1.21 billion[1] (2017)
Total equity$17 million[1] (2017)
ParentUnited Shipbuilding Corporation
Websiteасзкмс.рф
Amur Shipbuilding Plant in 2014

OJSC Amur Shipbuilding Plant (Russian: Амурский судостроительный завод, Amurskiy Sudostroitelnyy Zavod, and also called the "Leninskiy Komsomol Shipyard"[2]) is an important shipyard in eastern Russia, based in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, and founded in 1932.[3] It employs 15,000 people,[4] and produces both civilian and military ships, including nuclear submarines.[5]

Around 97 submarines (56 nuclear-powered and 41 conventional) as well as 36 warships were built at the yard. The shipyard started building nuclear submarines in 1957, with the first one completed in 1960. Submarines built at the Amur Shipbuilding plant include Delta I class ballistic missile submarines, Echo I and II class cruise missile submarines and Akula-class attack submarines.[6][7] In 1992, then-president Boris Yeltsin announced that the Sevmash shipyard in Severodvinsk would remain the only nuclear submarine construction site.[8][9]

In 2008, the first nuclear submarine built at the shipyard in 13 years suffered an accident during sea trials, killing 20 people.[10]

Previously privately owned, it was sold in May 2009 for a nominal price of a few thousand roubles to the state-controlled United Shipbuilding Corporation.[4][5]

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  7. ^ John Pike (1 January 1970). "Komsomol'sk-na-Amure / Komsomolsk-na-Amur". Globalsecurity.org. Retrieved 12 August 2017.
  8. ^ 12 October 2011. "Amur Shipyard Quits Building Submarines". Rusnavy.com. Retrieved 12 August 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  9. ^ "Russia". Archived from the original on 2 January 2010. Retrieved 4 January 2010.
  10. ^ Loiko, Sergei L. (10 November 2008). "False alarm blamed in sub fatalities". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 25 August 2009. Retrieved 4 January 2010.