JSC "Volgograd Shipyard": history, production

JSC "Volgograd Shipyard" is a machine-building enterprise founded in 1931. The strategic task of the VSZ included the construction of river-sea vessels providing transportation of cargoes along the Volga and their delivery to the ports of the adjacent seas: the Caspian, the Baltic, the Mediterranean, the Azov and the Black. At the moment the production is suspended.

Description

Volgograd Shipyard was for a long time one of the leading representatives of the Russian shipbuilding industry. He was included in the list of strategic enterprises of the military-industrial complex, he possessed the necessary material and technical base to ensure the production capacity of the output up to 10 vessels a year with a deadweight of about 8,000 tons.

From the time of its foundation, the aircraft has manufactured over 500 vessels of various classes and purposes. More than fifty boats were exported for such countries as England, Iran, Estonia, Holland, Turkmenistan, Cyprus, Norway and others.

The First Five-Year Plan

The Volgograd Shipyard was founded on October 1, 1931 in the town of Krasnoarmeysk, which was the near suburb of Stalingrad. The strategic tasks of the enterprise included the design and manufacture of tankers, dry cargo ships, boats, barges and other floating crafts capable of delivering goods without transshipment on large rivers, shipping channels and nearby seas.

The first significant success was achieved in 1935. Plant workers have mastered a new technological process at that time - electric welding. Soon they produced the benzo-nalic river barge "Neva" by the all-welded construction method. Progressive technology was later adopted by other industries, in particular, the neighboring Volgograd Shipbuilding and Shiprepairing Plant.

Labor feat

Great Patriotic made adjustments to the work plans of the enterprise. The place of vessels in the production areas was occupied by armored vehicles and other defense products. In the shortest time, the assembly of the T-60 and T-34 tanks was mastered. A little later, welding armored hulls for aircraft-attack planes of the IL-2 series was set up.

During the entire period of the Battle of Stalingrad, VSZ remained the only real working plant. For labor courage during the war years, the collective of 4.05.1985 was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree.

Peaceful time

Already in 1946, the Volgograd Shipyard resumed the assembly of the boats. In the first post-war years, mostly dry cargo barges were produced. Later the list of vessels expanded due to dredgers and tugboats.

Significant was 1963 - factory workers began to build ships that can navigate the sea. Since 1967, the main products have been vessels of the mixed class "river-sea". In 1972, a large order for medium-sized refrigerator-type seiners of draft project 503 was received. Before 1995, 180 units were manufactured.

Since the end of the 70s Volgograd Shipyard has produced small-seated tankers of its own design of project 1677 "Oleg Koshevoy 2" and their modifications. A motor ship with a length of 125.6 m and a deadweight of 5000 t was intended for year-round navigation on the Caspian Sea. In six tanks it is capable of transporting 5,903 m ^{3 of} oil.

New time

In the 80-90s the VSU produced ships of various classes: sea tankers, fishing-prospecting, crane, test, deep-water works, oil scoops, tugboats, vegetable trucks, pumping stations, seiners and others. In 1991, after receiving the international Lloyd's Register, the plant began to fulfill international orders. In 1992 the enterprise was transformed into JSC Volgograd Shipyard.

The group of MNP ("Offshore Oil Projects") bought back production in 2003. A contract was concluded with the 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 were implemented for foreign customers.

The crisis that erupted in 2008 "knocked down" production. In 2009, after the transition to the jurisdiction of OAO Russian Financial Company, financial problems began. Despite a number of orders, the plant in 2013 is declared bankrupt. His future fate is in question.

Production

Volgograd Shipyard for the past 40 years has built more than 280 self-propelled and towed boats. List of vessels built by the enterprise from 1970 to the present:

Shipbuilding industry

Since the foundation of the plant, one of its specializations has been shipbuilding and civil engineering. This type of production is concentrated in the shipmechanical shop and includes a large list and scope of works, allowing for the construction of the vessel to use its own components and practically do not resort to the services of third-party contractors.