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Almaz Shipbuilding Company

Almaz Shipbuilding Company is a Saint Petersburg shipyard on Petrovsky Island associated with Russian and Soviet high-speed naval craft, patrol boats, hovercraft, and compact surface combatants. Public shipbuilding directories describe the yard as a production and repair facility with covered construction halls, floating docks, machining capacity, and experience in steel, aluminum-alloy, and titanium ship structures.

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The company traces its modern public lineage to a Leningrad yard opened for maritime border-guard boat construction in 1933. Russian shipbuilding coverage says the first guard boat was laid down in March 1933 and that more than 1,200 ships and boats of different types had left the yard by 2017, including D-3 torpedo boats, Project 205 missile craft, and Project 12322 Zubr air-cushion landing ships.

Current public references emphasize Almaz as a compact-warship and special-craft producer rather than a large ocean-combatant yard. Sudostroenie.info describes the facility as a shipbuilding and repair enterprise with about 165,000 square meters of territory, roughly 50,000 square meters of production shops, more than 1,000 personnel in the cited company profile, and production capacity for steel and aluminum work. The catalog-connected systems here center on small patrol and artillery-combatant records whose sources identify Almaz Shipbuilding Company or the Leningrad/Saint Petersburg Almaz yard as a production site.

High-speed ships and boatsPatrol boats and border-guard craftSmall artillery and missile craftAir-cushion landing craft and hovercraftShip repair, refit, and modernization

Notable Systems

Project 1400M Grif / Zhuk-class patrol boat, Coastal patrol boat / border guard patrol craft, Naval Systems

Project 1400M Grif / Zhuk-class patrol boat

Coastal patrol boat / border guard patrol craft

RussianShips.info lists the Leningrad Almaz yard among Project 1400-family production sites, while the catalog record treats Project 1400M as a small coastal and border-guard patrol craft.

Sources: RussianShips.info: Project 1400 Grif
Project 21630 Buyan-class artillery corvette, Small artillery ship / corvette, Naval Systems

Project 21630 Buyan-class artillery corvette

Small artillery ship / corvette

USNI and Naval Technology identify the three original Project 21630 Buyan artillery corvettes as Almaz Shipbuilding products built in Saint Petersburg for Caspian Flotilla service.

Sources: Russia's Buyan Naval Corvette Program, Buyan Class Corvettes - Naval Technology

Manufacturer History

  1. First guard boat laid down

    Korabel.ru's historical article says the yard laid down its first guard boat on 21 March 1933 before the formal opening of the OGPU maritime border-guard shipyard.

    Sources: Korabel.ru Almaz history article

  2. Shipyard formally opened

    The same history article dates the formal opening of the maritime border-guard shipyard to 1 May 1933, which is the founding point used for the present Almaz Shipbuilding Company lineage.

    Sources: Korabel.ru Almaz history article

  3. Open joint-stock company formed

    GlobalSecurity's company profile says Almaz Shipbuilding Association was reorganized in 1992 as Almaz Shipbuilding Company open joint-stock company.

    Sources: GlobalSecurity Almaz Shipbuilding Company

  4. Project 21630 production run begins

    The catalog's Project 21630 sources identify Almaz Shipbuilding in Saint Petersburg as the yard for the original three Buyan artillery corvettes, with the lead ship entering service in 2006.

    Sources: Russia's Buyan Naval Corvette Program, Buyan Class Corvettes - Naval Technology

  5. Border-guard and auxiliary deliveries reported

    Korabel.ru reported that in 2016 Almaz delivered four Project 02690 floating cranes, two Project 22460 territorial-sea patrol ships, and one Project 12200 Sobol patrol boat.

    Sources: Korabel.ru Almaz history article

Website links
Official websiteSudostroenie.info company profileShipyards Directory profile

Public English-language references often blur Almaz Shipbuilding Company, Almaz Shipyard, Primorsky Shipyard, and Almaz Central Marine Design Bureau. This profile keeps the target catalog facet focused on the Saint Petersburg production company and does not add Almaz Shipyard or Primorsky labels as aliases because those labels are already represented by a separate published manufacturer profile. A rights-clear Commons shipyard photo was reviewed but not retained because it is not present in the production image manifest.

Manufacturer Sources

  • Sudostroenie.info Almaz company profilePublisher: Sudostroenie.info | Note: Supports address, official website, shipbuilding and repair activities, hovercraft emphasis, personnel and facility-size context, and production-shop details. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • Shipyards Directory Almaz profilePublisher: Shipyards Directory | Note: Supports Petrovsky Island location, official website, shipyard size, workshop area, high-speed ship and boat focus, patrol-boat and hovercraft product areas, and ship repair/refit capacity. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • GlobalSecurity Almaz Shipbuilding CompanyPublisher: GlobalSecurity.org | Note: Supports general company background, Petrovsky Island facility context, more-than-1000-ship production claim, 1992 reorganization into an open joint-stock company, and Zubr hovercraft production context. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • Korabel.ru Almaz history articlePublisher: Korabel.ru | Note: Supports the 1933 opening lineage, first guard-boat laying date, more-than-1200 ship and boat output claim, and reported 2016 deliveries of floating cranes, Project 22460 patrol ships, and Project 12200 Sobol patrol boat. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • Russia's Buyan Naval Corvette ProgramPublisher: U.S. Naval Institute | Note: Supports the Project 21630 Buyan connection, including Almaz Shipbuilding construction in Saint Petersburg, Caspian Flotilla assignment, service dates, and class distinction from Buyan-M. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • Buyan Class Corvettes - Naval TechnologyPublisher: Naval Technology | Note: Supports the Project 21630 Buyan production attribution to JSC Almaz Shipbuilding in Saint Petersburg and the three-ship class context. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • RussianShips.info: Project 1400 GrifPublisher: RussianShips.info | Note: Supports Project 1400-family production-site context, including Almaz/Leningrad yard references and Project 1400M patrol-boat background. | Accessed: 2026-07-11

Produced weapons

Category

Naval Systems

Warships, submarines, unmanned surface vessels, naval craft, and maritime combat systems.

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Project 1400M Grif / Zhuk-class patrol boat, Coastal patrol boat / border guard patrol craft, Naval Systems2014 Russia-Ukraine WarProject 1400M Grif / Zhuk-class patrol boatCoastal patrol boat / border guard patrol craftBuilt in: Soviet Union / Ukraine / GeorgiaProject 1400M Grif is the updated Soviet Grif coastal patrol-boat design known in NATO reporting as the Zhuk class. Built for border-guard and coast-guard work, the small aluminium-hulled craft carries heavy machine-gun armament, simple navigation or surface-search radar, and enough speed for short-range littoral security rather than open-ocean combat. Ukrainian Sea Guard and Navy examples remained visible after independence, and several Project 1400M boats entered the Russia-Ukraine War record as captured or destroyed Ukrainian maritime-security craft in 2022.
Project 21630 Buyan-class artillery corvette, Small artillery ship / corvette, Naval Systems2014 Russia-Ukraine WarProject 21630 Buyan-class artillery corvetteSmall artillery ship / corvetteBuilt in: RussiaProject 21630 Buyan is the original Russian Buyan-class river-sea artillery corvette, built by Almaz Shipbuilding for Caspian Flotilla service. The three-ship class predates the Kalibr-armed Buyan-M branch and combines a 100 mm A-190 gun, a 122 mm Grad-M naval rocket launcher, Gibka launchers for Igla missiles, and close-in gun defenses on a shallow-draft hull built for coastal and river-sea operations.