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Baltic Shipyard

Baltic Shipyard is a Saint Petersburg shipyard on Vasilyevsky Island with roots in the 1856 Carr and MacPherson works. The yard has built merchant vessels, naval ships, nuclear icebreakers, nuclear-powered missile cruisers, special-purpose ships, and marine machinery, and its current legal operating structure is described by the company as a United Shipbuilding Corporation subsidiary with nuclear and naval shipbuilding licenses.

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The shipyard's own history presents Baltiysky Zavod as an early Russian metal-ship and marine-engine producer that moved from imperial naval construction into Soviet and Russian heavy surface shipbuilding. Its public history highlights the first Russian iron warship, early armored vessels, dreadnoughts, wartime repair and production work, postwar cargo and polar vessels, second-generation nuclear icebreakers, and large nuclear-powered surface combatants.

For modern catalog context, Baltic Shipyard matters most as the Leningrad/Saint Petersburg production yard behind the Project 1144 Orlan/Kirov-class nuclear-powered missile cruisers and the first Russian-built Project 11356 frigates for the Indian Navy. Official shipyard material also describes a large industrial site with major slipways, a deep-water quay, steel cutting, section assembly, hull building, pipe, outfitting, and machine-building capabilities.

Naval surface combatantsNuclear-powered surface shipsIce-class vessels and nuclear icebreakersMilitary-technical export shipbuildingMarine machinery and ship components

Notable Systems

Project 1144 Orlan / Kirov-class nuclear-powered guided-missile heavy cruiser, Nuclear-powered guided-missile heavy cruiser, Naval Systems

Project 1144 Orlan / Kirov-class nuclear-powered guided-missile heavy cruiser

Nuclear-powered guided-missile heavy cruiser

Baltic Shipyard's history says the yard built the Project 1144 Orlan heavy nuclear-powered cruisers and delivered the final ship, Pyotr Velikiy, in 1998; GlobalSecurity also identifies Baltic Shipyard in the Kirov-class construction program.

Sources: Baltic Shipyard official history, Baltic Shipyard shipbuilding portfolio, GlobalSecurity Kirov class
Project 1135 Burevestnik / Krivak-class frigate and derivatives, Anti-submarine frigate family, Naval Systems

Project 1135 Burevestnik / Krivak-class frigate and derivatives

Anti-submarine frigate family

The connected catalog record includes the Project 11356/Talwar branch; Baltic Shipyard's history and shipbuilding pages describe completion of three Project 11356 frigates for the Indian Navy in the early 2000s.

Sources: Baltic Shipyard official history, Baltic Shipyard shipbuilding portfolio, Naval News INS Tushil

Manufacturer History

  1. Carr and MacPherson works founded

    Baltic Shipyard traces its establishment to the Carr and MacPherson foundry, mechanical, and shipbuilding works in Saint Petersburg, founded on May 26, 1856 under the New Style calendar.

    Sources: Baltic Shipyard official history

  2. First Project 1144 cruiser delivered

    The official history records transfer of the first Project 1144 heavy nuclear-powered missile cruiser, Kirov, later Admiral Ushakov, to the Soviet Navy in 1980.

    Sources: Baltic Shipyard official history, Baltic Shipyard shipbuilding portfolio

  3. Pyotr Velikiy completed

    Baltic Shipyard records delivery of the Project 1144 cruiser Pyotr Velikiy to the Russian Navy in 1998, closing the completed Orlan/Kirov production series.

    Sources: Baltic Shipyard official history

  4. Project 11356 Indian frigate order completed

    The shipyard says it completed a major export surface-shipbuilding order in April 2004 by building three Project 11356 frigates for the Indian Navy.

    Sources: Baltic Shipyard official history, Baltic Shipyard shipbuilding portfolio, Naval News INS Tushil

  5. Project 22220 lead icebreaker laid down

    The official chronology records the laying of the lead Project 22220 universal nuclear icebreaker on November 5, 2013, reflecting the yard's continuing specialization in large nuclear-powered ship construction.

    Sources: Baltic Shipyard official history

Website links
Official websiteOfficial historyShipbuilding portfolioOFAC Russia-related designations

Official Baltic Shipyard pages are the primary sources for plant history, facilities, ownership wording, and product focus. Sanctions-list data is used only for legal aliases and corporate linkage. Manufacturer sources are not used to infer any conflict employment of ships built at the yard.

Manufacturer Sources

  • Baltic Shipyard official about pagePublisher: Baltic Shipyard | Note: Supports the official website, founding year, Vasilyevsky Island location, ship totals, United Shipbuilding Corporation ownership, nuclear and naval shipbuilding licensing, product focus, industrial facilities, and contact address. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • Baltic Shipyard official historyPublisher: Baltic Shipyard | Note: Supports the 1856 origin, early metal warship and machinery history, Soviet naval and icebreaker production, Project 1144 cruiser chronology, Project 11356 Indian frigate order, and Project 22220 icebreaker milestone. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • Baltic Shipyard shipbuilding portfolioPublisher: Baltic Shipyard | Note: Supports the yard's shipbuilding portfolio, Project 1144/11442 cruiser output, Project 11356 frigate output, and listed Project 11356 dimensions and mission characteristics. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • GlobalSecurity Kirov classPublisher: GlobalSecurity.org | Note: Supports Project 1144/Kirov-class background, nuclear cruiser role, weapons fit, and Baltic Shipyard construction context. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • Naval News INS TushilPublisher: Naval News | Note: Supports the Project 11356/Talwar-class production split, including the first three Indian Navy frigates built by Baltiysky Zavod in Saint Petersburg and delivered in 2003-2004. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • OFAC Russia-related designationsPublisher: U.S. Department of the Treasury, Office of Foreign Assets Control | Note: Supports English aliases, the Saint Petersburg address in U.S. sanctions records, and the stated linkage to Joint Stock Company United Shipbuilding Corporation. | 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 1135 Burevestnik / Krivak-class frigate and derivatives, Anti-submarine frigate family, Naval Systems2014 Russia-Ukraine WarProject 1135 Burevestnik / Krivak-class frigate and derivativesAnti-submarine frigate familyBuilt in: Soviet Union / Russia / IndiaProject 1135 Burevestnik, known to NATO as the Krivak class, is a Soviet anti-submarine frigate family developed by the Northern Design Bureau as a smaller ocean-going successor to the Riga class. The family combined gas-turbine propulsion, URK-5/Rastrub anti-submarine missiles, Osa-M/Osa-MA point defense, guns, torpedoes, and RBU launchers, then branched into border-guard, Indian export, and Russian guided-missile derivatives. Its 2014 Russia-Ukraine War record centers on Ukraine's Krivak III-derived Hetman Sahaidachny, which was scuttled at Mykolaiv in 2022 to avoid capture.
Project 1144 Orlan / Kirov-class nuclear-powered guided-missile heavy cruiser, Nuclear-powered guided-missile heavy cruiser, Naval Systems2011 Syrian Civil WarProject 1144 Orlan / Kirov-class nuclear-powered guided-missile heavy cruiserNuclear-powered guided-missile heavy cruiserBuilt in: Soviet UnionProject 1144 Orlan, better known as the Kirov class, is a Soviet-designed nuclear-powered guided-missile heavy cruiser family built around P-700 Granit anti-ship missiles, layered air defense, anti-submarine weapons, and a three-helicopter aviation fit. Built by Baltic Shipyard in Leningrad, the class became one of the largest non-carrier surface combatant families of the Cold War and later appeared in Russian Syrian-war naval task-force operations through Pyotr Velikiy.