Manufacturer catalog
Vympel Shipyard is a Russian shipyard in Rybinsk, Yaroslavl Oblast, associated with small and medium-displacement naval, paramilitary, and civil craft. Public company material describes the plant as a producer of medium- and low-tonnage sea and river vessels, while sanctions and reference data identify the current legal entity as JSC Shipyard Vympel at 4 Novaya Street in Rybinsk.
5 weaponsThe shipyard traces its origin to 1930, when a boatbuilding plant was established in Rybinsk. Its own company history says more than 30,000 vessels have been produced since foundation and more than 1,800 boats exported over the last 40 years to markets in Europe, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, Africa, and South America.
For the public catalog, Vympel is most important as a serial producer of compact Russian and Soviet naval craft rather than as a designer of a single weapon family. The connected records include anti-sabotage patrol boats, landing craft, missile corvettes, and military towing motor boats, all of which rely on hull-production evidence rather than conflict-use claims.
The modern product mix spans combat missile and patrol boats, high-speed search-and-rescue craft, firefighting vessels, hydrographic vessels, tugboats, specialized workboats, and fiberglass recreational craft. Vympel's military-linked output includes Project 21980 Grachonok anti-sabotage boats for Russian naval and security customers, with public reporting in 2021 stating that a newly laid Project 21980 hull was the ninth Grachonok-class platform built at the Rybinsk yard.
RussianShips.info lists Vympel Shipyard, Rybinsk, as responsible for 9+2 Project 21980 units, while Naval News reported in 2021 that Vympel had laid the ninth Grachonok-class boat built at the yard.
Sources: Anti-saboteur boats - Project 21980, Vympel Shipyard Lays Keel Of Russian Navy's 14th Project 21980 Boat
The Project 1176 landing-craft record is linked to Vympel through RussianShips.info hull tables that identify Rybinsk Shipyard production and completion context for multiple units.
Sources: Landing craft - Project 1176, 1176E
RussianShips.info lists the BMK-460 as a 276-unit towing motor boat type built at Vympel Shipyard, Rybinsk, across the late Soviet production run.
Sources: Tugboat - Type BMK-460
The connected missile-corvette record reflects Vympel's legacy missile-boat and small-combatant production base, including Soviet-era Rybinsk construction associated with export and naval small missile ships.
Sources: Vympel boats history page, Ships built at Vympel shipyard, RybinskVympel's company history traces the enterprise to 1930 and says the yard later produced more than 30,000 vessels of different types.
Sources: Vympel boats history page
Wikimedia Commons' shipyard category records the Rybinsk yard lineage as Shipbuilding and Ship Repairing Yard No. 341 from 1930 to 1992, followed by the Vympel shipyard name.
Sources: Ships built at Vympel shipyard, Rybinsk
Naval Today reported that Vympel began construction of the first of four Project 21980 Grachonok-class anti-terror boats for Russia's National Guard under a 2017 contract.
Sources: Construction starts on first of four new Russian Navy Project 21980 anti-terror boats
Naval News, citing the shipyard press department, reported the keel laying of a Project 21980 boat and said it would be the ninth Grachonok-class platform built at Vympel.
Sources: Vympel Shipyard Lays Keel Of Russian Navy's 14th Project 21980 Boat
Public sources use several transliterations and legal forms for the Rybinsk shipyard. This profile keeps the public label as Vympel Shipyard and uses aliases only for non-colliding legal or transliterated forms. Headquarters is listed from public entity/address sources without map coordinates. The profile covers manufacturer and corporate context only; conflict-use claims remain in weapon records.
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Warships, submarines, unmanned surface vessels, naval craft, and maritime combat systems.
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Transport, logistics, recovery, command, engineering, and other enabling equipment.
