Baltiisky Zavod is located on Vasilievsky Island in the mouth of the Bolshaya Neva River, in the western part of St Petersburg. It was founded in 1856 and has built more than 560 ships and vessels since then.
The shipyard specialises in the construction of warships, large-tonnage civilian vessels for the carriage of different types of cargo, and icebreakers (with nuclear or diesel propulsion). The company also builds Ro-Ro and Ro-Pax cargo and passenger ships, chemical tankers, bulkers, etc.
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Ships of the Ro-Ro type are designed to transport motor vehicles, trailers and railway coaches and wagons. They are equipped with special ramps, allowing vehicles to roll on and off the vessel.
Rо Pах ships are equipped, in addition to cargo decks, with living accommodation. The number of passengers is no more than 500. The term Ro Pax is also applied to some ferry boats.
The bulker is a specialised vessel for carrying loose or solid cargo in bulk. Its deadweight may be up to 150,000 tons. There are both inland water and sea-going ships of this type. In most cases, vessels are provided with a double bottom and reinforced sides.
Its own engineering design services enable Baltiisky Zavod to offer on the market a series of prospective projects of its own development. These are large-tonnage tankers to carry liquefied gas, multimission icebreaking supply vessels, nuclear and diesel-propelled floating power-generating modules, technical support ships for shelf operation, and floating desalination facilities.
The company produces a wide range of ship-borne power and engineering equipment both to fit out ships and vessels of its own construction and to supply other shipbuilding enterprises. The shipyard also manufactures heat exchangers for nuclear power plants and supplies non-ferrous and steel scrap metal.
The yard has three building berths - two slipways and a covered slip, as well as a deep-water outfitting quay.
Slipway A is the largest in Russia (350 m long) and can launch vessels with deadweight of up to 100,000 tons. A 350-ton Demag floating crane, one of the largest in the northwest of Russia, is used to fit out ships afloat.
The outfitting quay is 245 m long, 15 m wide and its nearshore depth is 10 m.
Rolled metal is machined and components made in the hull workshop commissioned for operation from 2001 to 2003 and being one of the most advanced in Europe. The workshop is capable of machining up to 60,000 tons of metal a year. Production facilities include a large covered-in warehouse for steel items and up-to-date equipment.
Hull sections are made in the assembly-welding workshop. Crane equipment of the four-bay shop makes it possible to manufacture sections weighing up to 120 tons.
Vessel sections and engineering products are painted in an up-to-date chamber more than 1,000 sq m in area.
Baltiisky Zavod has built more icebreakers than any other shipyard in the world.
In the 1974-2007 period, Baltiisky Zavod built a series of nuclear-powered icebreakers of the second generation of Project 10520 and updated Project 10521.
The latest nuclear-powered ship of the series - 50 Let Pobedy - is the largest nuclear-powered icebreaker.
In July 2004, Baltiisky Zavod won an international tender for the construction of a series of line icebreakers for Rosmorport.
Many products manufactured by the Baltiisky shipyard have certificates of acknowledgement and approval issued by leading international and Russian classification companies (the Russian Sea Register of Shipping, Russian River Register, LRS, DNV, BV, Rina and others). To cover its basic activities the yard has more than 20 licences, including one from the Federal Service for Supervision of Environment, Technology and Nuclear Management for making nuclear plant equipment.
The shipyard employs 3,200 people.