Sevmash traces its official production history to 21 December 1939, when Shipyard No. 402 laid down the battleship Sovetskaya Belorussiya. The plant later shifted from wartime surface-ship and repair work into diesel-electric and nuclear submarine construction, including Project 627, Project 667, Project 949/949A, Project 941, Project 971, Borei, Borei-A, Yasen, and Yasen-M boats.
The shipyard's own public materials describe Sevmash as one of Russia's largest shipbuilding complexes and state that, after the Soviet collapse, it effectively remained the only enterprise in Russia and the post-Soviet space performing the full construction and testing cycle for submarines with nuclear power plants. In addition to naval work, Sevmash lists offshore oil-and-gas platforms, technical industrial products, ship repair, modernization, disposal, and marine engineering among its activities.
Nuclear submarine constructionRussian Navy shipbuildingShip repair and modernizationNaval engineering and testingOffshore Arctic marine structuresIndustrial technical products
Sevmash is a Russian state shipyard tied to sanctioned defense-industrial activity, and public sources mix official Russian company material with independent defense reporting. This record uses official sources for identity, address, ownership, and production-line claims, with independent references for submarine-class context.