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Sredne-Nevsky Shipyard

Sredne-Nevsky Shipyard is a Saint Petersburg shipyard in Russia's United Shipbuilding Corporation network, known for mine-countermeasures vessels, composite shipbuilding, low-magnetic hull work, and smaller naval and civil craft. Its official materials trace the yard to the Ust-Izhora shipyard founded in 1912 and describe more than 600 ships and vessels built across 43 projects.

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The shipyard's defense role is centered on mine-warfare and small-combatant construction. Sredne-Nevsky says it became a specialist in minesweepers from 1937, introduced aluminum-magnesium and low-magnetic construction into Soviet mine-warfare vessels, and later moved into fiberglass and carbon-fiber composite structures. The plant's current public production range includes mine-countermeasures ships, patrol ships, missile boats or corvettes, workboats, and passenger vessels up to 100 meters long.

For catalog context, Sredne-Nevsky Shipyard connects Soviet and Russian mine-warfare records across several generations: Project 1258 Yevgenya inshore minesweepers, Project 12660 Gorya seagoing minesweepers, and the current Project 12700/Alexandrit mine-countermeasures family. Public reporting also ties the plant to serial Alexandrit construction for the Russian Navy, including composite hull and superstructure work.

Mine-countermeasures vesselsComposite shipbuildingLow-magnetic naval hullsMissile boats and small combatantsPatrol, work, and passenger vesselsShip repair and modernization

Notable Systems

Alexandrit class / Project 12700, Coastal mine countermeasures vessel, Naval Systems

Alexandrit class / Project 12700

Coastal mine countermeasures vessel

Current Russian mine-countermeasures vessel family with a monolithic fiberglass hull; Naval News, citing the yard, reported Sredne-Nevsky serial construction and described the lead ship Alexander Obukhov entering service in 2016.

Sources: Naval News Project 12700 launch, GlobalSecurity Project 12700
Project 1258 Yevgenya-class minesweeper, Inshore minesweeper class, Naval Systems

Project 1258 Yevgenya-class minesweeper

Inshore minesweeper class

Soviet inshore mine-countermeasures class that fits the yard's long-running fiberglass and mine-warfare specialization; the catalog's Project 1258 entry links this family to Sredne-Nevsky Shipyard.

Sources: Official Sredne-Nevsky history, GlobalSecurity Project 12700
Project 12660 Gorya-class seagoing minesweeper, Seagoing minesweeper class, Naval Systems

Project 12660 Gorya-class seagoing minesweeper

Seagoing minesweeper class

Larger Soviet/Russian seagoing minesweeper family in the catalog, tied to Sredne-Nevsky's deep mine-warfare production lineage and transition into more modern mine-countermeasures ships.

Sources: Official Sredne-Nevsky history, GlobalSecurity Project 12700

Manufacturer History

  1. Ust-Izhora shipyard laid down

    The official history says the Ust-Izhora shipyard, now Sredne-Nevsky Shipyard, was laid down in July 1912 and completed by the end of 1913 with four large slipways.

    Sources: Official Sredne-Nevsky history

  2. Minesweeper specialization begins

    Sredne-Nevsky's history states that minesweepers became the plant's main specialization in 1937, with Project 53U vessels built before the Second World War.

    Sources: Official Sredne-Nevsky history

  3. Project 266M production and exports

    The yard says it delivered 27 Project 266M ships for the Soviet Navy and 21 ships for foreign customers including Iraq, Libya, Syria, Bulgaria, Cuba, and India during this period.

    Sources: Official Sredne-Nevsky history

  4. Vacuum-infusion composite hull milestone

    The official history says Sredne-Nevsky introduced vacuum-infusion production in Russia in 2011 and formed a 62-meter monolithic fiberglass ship hull that year.

    Sources: Official Sredne-Nevsky history

  5. Lead Alexandrit delivered

    The shipyard's history identifies the December 2016 transfer of Alexander Obukhov as the lead Project 12700 mine-countermeasures ship for the Russian Navy.

    Sources: Official Sredne-Nevsky history, Naval News Project 12700 launch

  6. OFAC designation published

    The U.S. Treasury's OFAC listed Joint Stock Company Sredne-Nevsky Shipyard under the Russia-related EO 14024 program and linked it to Joint Stock Company United Shipbuilding Corporation.

    Sources: OFAC Sredne-Nevsky sanctions record, OFAC April 2022 designations

Predecessors
Ust-Izhora ShipyardUst-Izhora Experimental Demonstration Electric ShipyardPlant No. 363
Website links
Official websiteOfficial company overviewOfficial historyOfficial naval productsOFAC sanctions record

Public sourcing mixes official Russian company material, regulator sanctions records, defense-reference reporting, and Commons image metadata. This profile uses Sredne-Nevsky's own pages for identity, address, historical milestones, and product scope, while regulator and defense-reference sources provide external corporate and system context. The separate canonical profile named Sredne-Nevskiy Shipyard may be a duplicate transliteration and was left unchanged.

Manufacturer Sources

  • Official Sredne-Nevsky company overviewPublisher: Sredne-Nevsky Shipyard | Note: Supports the official company name, address, 1912 founding, 600-plus ships and 43 projects claim, product range, modernization statement, and composite-shipbuilding positioning. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • Official Sredne-Nevsky historyPublisher: Sredne-Nevsky Shipyard | Note: Supports the Ust-Izhora lineage, 1912 yard founding, 1937 minesweeper specialization, materials milestones, Project 266M production and exports, 2011 vacuum-infusion milestone, 2016 Alexander Obukhov transfer, and predecessor names. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • Official Sredne-Nevsky naval productsPublisher: Sredne-Nevsky Shipyard | Note: Supports the current naval-product focus, including Project 12701 mine-countermeasures ships, Project 10750E harbor minesweepers, Project 266ME seagoing minesweepers, and Project 12418 missile boats. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • Naval News Project 12700 launchPublisher: Naval News | Note: Supports Sredne-Nevsky serial construction of Project 12700 Alexandrit-class minesweepers, the fourth Sredne-Nevsky-built vessel launch context, Alexander Obukhov's 2016 operational date, and published hull and crew characteristics. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • GlobalSecurity Project 12700Publisher: GlobalSecurity.org | Note: Supports independent background on Sredne-Nevsky as a Russian composite-shipbuilding leader, its mine-warfare production lineage, Project 12700 characteristics, and the yard's more than 500 ships and 200-plus minesweepers context. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • OFAC Sredne-Nevsky sanctions recordPublisher: U.S. Department of the Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control | Note: Supports the legal entity name, aliases, tax identifier, November 2008 organization date, Pontonnyy/Saint Petersburg address, EO 14024 program listing, and linkage to Joint Stock Company United Shipbuilding Corporation. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • OFAC April 2022 designationsPublisher: U.S. Department of the Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control | Note: Supports the April 2022 designation context, entity aliases, address, organization date, and United Shipbuilding Corporation linkage. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • Wikimedia Commons Aleksandr Obukhov imagePublisher: Wikimedia Commons | Note: Supports the rights-clear image of the Sredne-Nevsky-built lead Project 12700 ship Aleksandr Obukhov, credited to Mil.ru under CC BY 4.0. | Accessed: 2026-07-11

Produced weapons

Category

Naval Systems

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

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Alexandrit class / Project 12700, Coastal mine countermeasures vessel, Naval Systems2014 Russia-Ukraine WarAlexandrit class / Project 12700Coastal mine countermeasures vesselBuilt in: RussiaThe Alexandrit class, Russian Project 12700, is a Russian mine-countermeasures vessel class designed by Almaz and built by Sredne-Nevsky Shipyard for the Russian Navy. The class combines a monolithic fiberglass vacuum-infusion hull with trawls and unmanned mine-hunting vehicles, and it entered the Russia-Ukraine war record when Ukrainian intelligence said it disabled the Baltic Fleet lead ship Aleksandr Obukhov at Baltiysk in October 2024.
Project 206MR Vikhr / Matka-class missile boat, Hydrofoil missile boat / patrol boat, Naval Systems2008 Russo-Georgian War, 2014 Russia-Ukraine WarProject 206MR Vikhr / Matka-class missile boatHydrofoil missile boat / patrol boatBuilt in: Soviet UnionProject 206MR Vikhr, known to NATO as the Matka class, is a Soviet hydrofoil missile-boat class built for high-speed coastal attack with P-15M anti-ship missiles, a 76 mm gun, and close-in 30 mm defense; surviving post-Soviet boats appeared in Georgian and Ukrainian service, including Tbilisi in the 2008 war and Pryluky during Ukraine's coastal defense in 2022.