Volgograd Shipbuilding Plant OJSC is a machine-building enterprise founded in 1931. The strategic objective of the Vyksa Shipyard included the construction of river-sea-type vessels, which transport goods along the Volga and deliver them to the ports of the adjacent seas: the Caspian, Baltic, Mediterranean, Azov and Black. At the moment, production is suspended.
Description
The Volgograd Shipbuilding Plant has long been one of the leading representatives of the shipbuilding industry in Russia. It was included in the list of strategic enterprises of the military-industrial complex, had the necessary material and technical base to ensure production capacity of up to 10 vessels per year with a deadweight of about 8,000 tons.
From the moment of foundation, the VSC has produced over 500 vessels of various classes and purposes. More than fifty boats were exported to countries such as England, Iran, Estonia, Holland, Turkmenistan, Cyprus, Norway and others.
The first five-year plans
The Volgograd Shipbuilding Plant was founded on October 1, 1931 in the city of Krasnoarmeysk, which is a nearby suburb of Stalingrad. The strategic objectives of the enterprise included the design and manufacture of tankers, dry cargo vessels, boats, barges and other watercraft capable of delivering cargo without transshipment along large rivers, shipping channels and nearby seas.
The first significant success was achieved in 1935. Factory workers mastered a new technological process at that time - electric welding. Soon they made the Neva gas-filled river barge using an all-welded construction method. Progressive technology was later adopted by other industries, in particular, the neighboring Volgograd shipbuilding and ship repair plant.
Labor feat
The Great Patriotic War made adjustments to the work plans of the enterprise. Armored vehicles and other defense products took the place of ships at the production sites. The assembly of the T-60 and T-34 tanks was mastered as soon as possible. A little later, welding of armored hulls for attack aircraft of the Il-2 series was established.
Throughout the entire period of the Battle of Stalingrad, the VSZ remained the only really working plant. For labor courage during the war years, the staff on May 4, 1985 was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree.
Peaceful time
Already in 1946, the Volgograd shipbuilding resumed assembly of watercraft. In the first post-war years, mainly dry cargo barges were made. Later, the list of vessels expanded due to dredgers and tugboats.
The year 1963 was significant - the factory workers began the construction of ships capable of navigating the sea. Since 1967, the main product has become a river-sea mixed class vessel. In 1972, a large order was received for medium-sized trawlers-seiners of the refrigerated type of project 503. Until 1995, 180 units were manufactured.
Since the late 70s, the Volgograd Shipyard has been producing small-sitting tankers of its own design, project 1677 Oleg Koshevoi 2 and their modifications. The motor ship with a length of 125.6 m and a deadweight of 5000 tons was intended for year-round sailing along the Caspian Sea. In six tanks it is capable of transporting 5903 m 3 of oil.
New time
In the years 80-90, the Vyksa Shipyard produced ships of various classes: marine tankers, fishing and search vessels, crane, test vessels, for deep-water operations, oil pickers, tugboats, vegetable carriers, pumping stations, seiners and others. In 1991, after receiving the international Lloyd Register, the plant began to fulfill international orders. In 1992, the company was transformed into OJSC Volgograd Shipyard.
The MNP Group (“Offshore Oil Projects”) purchased the production in 2003. A contract was signed with Turkish partners for the construction of dry cargo ships of project 006RSD05. In 2004, dry cargo ships for Iran were produced. Until 2009, a number of projects for foreign customers were completed.
The crisis that erupted in 2008 “knocked down” production. In 2009, after transferring to the jurisdiction of Russian Financial Company OJSC, financial problems began. Despite a number of orders, the plant was declared bankrupt in 2013. His further fate is in question.
Products
Over the past 40 years, the Volgograd Shipyard has built more than 280 self-propelled and towed boats. The list of ships built by the enterprise from 1970 to the present:
Type of vessel | Project | Year of descent | Total amount |
Tanker | 1577 | 1968-1979 | 1 |
Fishing trawler seiner | 503 | 1972-1995 | 180 |
Tanker | 1677 | 1979-1993 | 20 |
Vegetable truck type "ST" | 19620 | 1983-1992 | 1 |
Pumping station | 5811 | 1986 | 2 |
Pumping station | 02404 | 1986 | 12 |
Dry cargo ship | 16290 | 1994 | 5 |
Tanker | 00200 | 1995 | 2 |
Dry cargo ship | 16291 | 1995 | 6 |
Dry cargo ship | B16291 | 1996 | 5 |
Tanker | 00201L | 1998 | 10 |
Pumping station | 04411 | 2000-2003 | 4 |
Pleasure boat | "Stellate sturgeon" | 2000 | 1 |
Semi-submersible barge | 00503 | 2003 | 1 |
Barge | 004ROB05 Paloil | 2004 | 5 |
Dry cargo ship | 006RSD05 | 2004 | 8 |
Tanker | LG002 | 2004 | 1 |
Tanker | 17103 | 2004 | 2 |
Barge | 011003B | 2004 | 2 |
Tanker renovation | 1577 | 2005 | 3 |
Tanker | WORLD | 2005 | 2 |
Arctic tanker | RK608 | 2006 | 1 |
Barge | P248 | 2006 | 1 |
Dry cargo ship | RSD19 "Khazar" | 2007 | 4 |
Chemical tanker | MNP4450 | 2008 | 2 |
Dry cargo ship | 007RSD07 "Tanais I" | 2009 | 1 |
Chemical tanker | 4450 | 2010 | 1 |
Marine engineering
Since the founding of the plant, one of his specializations has been ship and civil engineering. This type of production is concentrated in the shipbuilding workshop and includes a large list and volume of work performed, allowing for the construction of the vessel to use its own components and practically do not resort to the services of third-party contractors.