The Kherson Shipyard
() is a
joint stock company
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located in
Kherson
Kherson (Ukrainian language, Ukrainian and , , ) is a port city in southern Ukraine that serves as the administrative centre of Kherson Oblast. Located by the Black Sea and on the Dnieper, Dnieper River, Kherson is the home to a major ship-bui ...
,
Ukraine
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, at the mouth of the
Dnieper River
The Dnieper or Dnepr ( ), also called Dnipro ( ), is one of the major transboundary rivers of Europe, rising in the Valdai Hills near Smolensk, Russia, before flowing through Belarus and Ukraine to the Black Sea. Approximately long, with ...
.
The shipyard specializes in building merchant ships to include dry cargo ships, tankers, ice-breakers, container-ships, drilling vessels, and floating dry docks. In 1983, the shipyard delivered the impressive
Alexei Kosygin class (named after Soviet Premier
Alexei Kosygin
Alexei Nikolayevich Kosygin (–18 December 1980) was a Soviet people, Soviet statesman during the Cold War. He served as the Premier of the Soviet Union from 1964 to 1980 and, alongside General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev, was one of its most ...
) of Arctic barge carriers ().
[Norman Polmar, ''Guide to the Soviet Navy'', Fourth Edition (1986), United States Naval Institute, Annapolis Maryland, ]
History
The city of Kherson was founded in 1778 at a fortress that protected the lands of
Russian Empire
The Russian Empire was an empire that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its establishment in November 1721 until the proclamation of the Russian Republic in September 1917. At its height in the late 19th century, it covered about , roughl ...
from Turkish raids. Kherson's proximity to the Black Sea initiated shipbuilding and the settlement of people in the estuary of the
Dnieper river
The Dnieper or Dnepr ( ), also called Dnipro ( ), is one of the major transboundary rivers of Europe, rising in the Valdai Hills near Smolensk, Russia, before flowing through Belarus and Ukraine to the Black Sea. Approximately long, with ...
.
Kherson Shipyard was founded in 1951.
The first Soviet tanker ships, ''Kherson'' and ''Grozny'', were completed there in 1953. A few years later, the production of dry cargo ships began. In 1965, one of the first ocean-going dry cargo gas turbines in the former Soviet Union, the ''Paris Commune'', was built at the plant. In 1970, the main Soviet icebreaker and transport vessel, ''Captain Myshevsky'', was built at the shipyard.
During Ukraine's independence, Kherson Shipyard built about 25 ships, including 13 tankers for shipowners in Norway, Denmark, Russia, two Arctic supply vessels for clients in South Africa and China, and four multi-purpose dry cargo ships for the Philippines and Norway.
In 2010, the plant was engaged in the construction of a series of anchor vessels for the Norwegian company Myklebust Prosjekt AS, as well as ship repair and production of river tankers for the Dutch company Veka Shipbuilding BV.
In autumn 2019, the company is carrying out preparatory work for the installation of equipment for thermal cutting of metal SAPPHIRE of the Polish company "ECKERT".
Facilities and services
The shipyard consists of two main production areas:
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* Production Area No. 1 is where units up to 2,000 tons are formed in what is called the ''Large Unit Building'' to be further moved on to the building berth (two building berth lines, each long).
* Production Area No. 2 is where hull forming is carried out in a roofed building berth on two building berth lines each long.
The hull assembling and metal processing facilities performs pre-processing of rolled metal to include straightening, shot-blasting, priming, cutting, and bending. Specific capabilities include:
Notable vessels
See also
* List of ships of Russia by project number
The list of ships of Russia by project number includes all Soviet and Russian ships by known assigned project numbers. Ship descriptions are Russian assigned classifications when known. The Russian term ''проект'' ( tr. ''proyekt'') can be t ...
* List of Soviet and Russian submarine classes
Submarines of the Soviet Navy were developed by numbered "projects", which were sometimes but not always given names. During the
Cold War, NATO nations referred to these classes by NATO reporting name
NATO uses a system of code names, called ...
References
External links
Madesta Developments Ltd. public website
- processing/prefabrication of heavy plate
Kherson Shipyard, JSC public website
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Shipbuilding companies of Ukraine
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