The Baltic Shipyard is located in St. Petersburg on Vasilievsky Island. The company is part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation and one of the most powerful Russian shipyards.
History
After the defeat in the Crimean War, it became clear that in order to maintain the status of a great naval power, Russia needed a large-scale reorganization of the navy and shipbuilding. Private investors joined the processes. In 1865, the 1st Guild merchant Matvey Carr and engineer Mark MacPherson founded a new shipbuilding complex, where foundry, mechanical work was carried out.
In 1874, the company became the property of English shareholders. Three years later, the company gets a new name - “Russian Baltic Railway Society”. In 1894, the treasury buys a plant for the Ministry of the Sea, the company begins to fulfill government orders, which has led the company to industry leaders.
The main specialization of the plant was the construction of metal vessels for the Russian fleet, in addition to the main specialization, steam engines and various ship mechanisms were produced in the workshops of the plant. The first Russian submarine was built at the shipyards of the Baltic Shipyard. Ivan Alexandrovsky became the designer and engineer for the development of a new type of weapon for Russia. In 1862, the armored gunboat “Experience” emerged from the docks of the plant, which became the first Russian ship to be completely made of metal.
Development and serial production
In the second half of the 19th century, the Admiral Lazarev ship was built at the Baltic Shipyard, it became the first armored ship intended for coast guard, it served in the Navy for 40 years. Its successful production and testing ushered in an era of mass production of armored ships equipped with weapons and equipment of domestic production. In 1877, the Baltic shipyards produced the first steam engine, its capacity was 5300 horsepower.
The shipyard Baltic Shipyard became a pioneer in setting up serial production of ships, submarines were not inferior in characteristics to Western and European models of such weapons. At the beginning of the 20th century, the company launched the first Russian dreadnoughts Petropavlovsk and Sevastopol. In 1900, the “Diving Department” was formed at the enterprise, which was engaged in the design, development and repair of submarines. By 1938, the department was transformed by the Rubin Central Design Bureau.
After the revolution
In 1917, the Izmail, Kinburn battlecruisers remained unfinished at the plant, the ships were already afloat, there was only a revision, but with the lack of funding it was not possible to complete the work. The vessel was deposited at the port of St. Petersburg. In 1923, the Kinburn ship was sold to Germany as scrap metal. Partial funding resumed in the early 1920s. By 1928, the cruiser Svetlana, which received the new name Profintern, was being completed at the Baltic Shipyard.
In January 1925, four ships of Soviet Russia were laid in the shipyards of the plant - timber carriers "Comrade Stalin", they went into operation in 1927. In 1925, the production of domestic mainline diesel locomotives was established; machines of a similar design have never been produced anywhere. By 1931, 4 of the largest passenger vessels were launched, capable of carrying up to 960 passengers and 100 tons of cargo. Ships were intended to work on the Black Sea lines.
From 1927 to 1931, the plant produced three submarines, scandalized worldwide fame. The Decembrist boat became the first submarine of the Soviet Union, the Narodovolets ship is known as the first ship to become an exhibit in the museum. The greatest number of achievements was made by the “Krasnogvardeets” boat - it took part in the Great Patriotic War, was the first to sail under the ice of the Arctic and the first to make a trip to the Western hemisphere of the Earth.
By the beginning of World War II, the company had developed, constructed and built many ships for the USSR Navy, for which in 1940 the company was awarded the Order of Lenin, noting the merits of the plant in strengthening the country's defense.
War and Peace
During the hostilities, the Baltic Shipyard worked for the needs of the front, in the workshops they were engaged in ship repair, produced ammunition, built minesweepers, as well as barges and tenders for the Road of Life on Ladoga. Half the workforce went to the front.
At the end of hostilities, the plant mastered the production of peaceful products - cargo and passenger ships, tankers, bulk carriers, icebreakers, vessels for research activities.
Achievements
From 1971 to 1975, the Arctic icebreaker was built at the Baltic Shipyard, which became the largest ship of its kind at that time. This handsome ship got the world palm in reaching the North Pole by surface. By 1992, several second-generation nuclear-powered icebreakers were built at the enterprise; the Rossiya ship, launched in 1985, opened the series.
In 2007, the construction of the largest atomic icebreaker “50 Years of Victory”, with a displacement of 20 thousand tons with 14 decks, was completed. Today it remains one of a kind. In the 80s, the plant mastered the construction of project 1144 nuclear missile cruisers . Four ships of this type were launched, the last one, Peter the Great, launched in 1998, has no world analogues to this day.
Modernity
By 2009, the Baltic Shipyard launched two diesel-electric icebreakers, St. Petersburg and Moscow. In 2009, the company began construction of a unique facility - the Akademik Lomonosov floating nuclear power plant, the project has no analogues in the world shipbuilding practice. The capacity of the first floating nuclear power plant is 70 MW, the service life without replacing the fuel is 10 years, the displacement is 21.5 thousand tons, the crew is 69 specialists. The station is capable of generating energy for a city with a population of 200 thousand people.
The FNPP also has equipment for desalination of water (240 thousand cubic meters per day). In April 2018, the station began to be towed to the place of deployment. At the first stage, it will be moored in Murmansk, where fuel will be loaded into nuclear installations, after which the FNPP will leave for the place of permanent basing - in the city of Pevek. For the fall of 2019, it is planned to test the station and put it into operation.
Over the history of the enterprise, more than 600 military vessels and many unique ships were built here, which makes the plant the industry leader in the use of high technology.
Production capacity
The Baltic Shipyard is one of the largest enterprises where a full cycle of ship and ship construction works is carried out. The structure of the enterprise includes metallurgical and engineering industries, which allows us to produce a complete set of products for shipbuilding.
Production facilities consist of units:
- Shipbuilding industry.
- Case manufacturing.
- Assembly and welded production.
- Ship assembly production.
- Outfitting and painting production.
- Shop propellers.
- Production of stern devices.
- Metallurgical industry.
- Production of boiler equipment.
- Production of heat transfer, capacitive equipment.
Products
The Baltic shipbuilding and mechanical plant occupy an area of more than 650 thousand m 2 . Here is the largest Russian slipway, its length is 350 meters, which allows the construction of vessels with a carrying capacity of up to 100 thousand tons.
In the shops of the company produce the following marketable products:
- Equipment for the chemical industry.
- Large propellers made of copper based alloys.
- Equipment for nuclear power plants.
- Stern devices.
- Track, boiler fittings.
- Heat-exchange units.
- Ship shaft lines.
- Boilers (main, auxiliary).
The main products of the plant are the production of military vessels, civilian ships, icebreaker bulk carriers, chemical tankers, etc. The company also supplies steel and non-ferrous castings, and manufactures products for mechanical engineering, marine power engineering, etc.
Reviews
More than 6 thousand people make up the staff of the Baltic Shipyard. Reviews of workers with positive reviews talk about timely salaries, delays do occur, but are not systemic. Salaries are calculated according to the Labor Code and include all necessary taxes and payments. Employees pointed out that in most cases the team on the ground is friendly, it is possible to get advice and help can be calculated.
The vacancies of the Baltic Shipyard are mostly open to specialists in working professions. The fact that employees are constantly required indicates a high level of staff turnover. As it turned out, not everything is so simple. Applicants often turn to the human resources department, no less often receive a positive response and begin paperwork. Sometimes it takes about two weeks to complete the process, but at the time of issuing a pass to the plant, they are caught up in the personnel department and denied employment. It is impossible to get an answer why the decision has changed; no one gives answers.
Some refused the vacancy of the Baltic Shipbuilding Plant in St. Petersburg at the stage of signing the labor contract. There are frequent cases when the candidate is offered a high salary at the interview, but in the contract it is reduced by a very decent amount. Candidates considered that the personnel management was incompetent or that such deception was the company's policy, which is hard to believe.
Former employees note that the company is not doing well with the provision of tools and equipment for work, but at the same time no one reduces production standards, even if it is impossible to do work without certain devices. Many brought their tools, hoping for premium deductions. With additional remuneration, the situation is tight - workers are not awarded bonuses for either processing or working in harmful conditions. Workers believe that the accrual system, in which the main role is assigned to site masters, is to blame, they prefer to award only themselves.
Address
The Baltic Shipyard is one of the oldest enterprises in Russia. Its glorious history has been going on for more than 150 years. The enterprise is still a platform for the production of unique products, analogues of which do not exist in the world.
The factory address is Kosaya Liniya Street, Building 16.
The Baltic shipyard at this stage is experiencing an internal crisis, it is hoped that the situation will improve and the company will continue to produce products that make up the pride of the Russian fleet.