Black Sea Shipyard

Black Sea Shipyard

The Black Sea Shipyard in 2010
Company type	Shipyard
Industry	Shipbuilding
Predecessors	Nikolayev Shipbuilding, Mechanical, and Iron Works; Associated Nikolayev (Naval) Shipyard; Andre Marti (South) Yard (Shipyard No. 198); Shipyard No. 444 (in the name of I. I. Nosenko); Chernomorsky Shipyard
Founded	1895; 129 years ago (1895) in Mykolaiv (at the time known as Nikolayev), Russian Empire
Defunct	June 25, 2021 (2021-06-25)[1][2][3]
Fate	Bankruptcy[1][2][3]
Parent	Ukroboronprom

46°56′48″N 31°58′48″E / 46.9467°N 31.9800°E / 46.9467; 31.9800 The Black Sea Shipyard (Ukrainian: Чорноморський суднобудівний завод; Russian: Черноморский судостроительный завод) was a shipbuilding facility in Mykolaiv, Ukraine, on the southern tip of the Mykolaiv peninsula. It was founded in 1895 by Belgian interests and began building warships in 1901. At the beginning of World War I in 1914, it was one of the largest industrial facilities in the Russian Empire. The shipyard was moribund in the first decades of the Soviet Union until the Soviets began building up their fleet in the 1930s and it began building surface warships as well as submarines. The yard was badly damaged during World War II and took several years to be rebuilt. Surface warship construction temporarily ended in the mid-1950s before being revived in the mid-1960s and submarines were last built in the yard in late 1950s. The Black Sea Shipyard built all of the aircraft carrying ships of the USSR and Russia and continued before it was liquidated by the economic court of Mykolaiv Oblast on June 25, 2021.^[1][2][3]