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Yaroslavl Shipyard

Yaroslavl Shipyard is a Russian shipbuilding manufacturer on the Volga River in Yaroslavl. Its public material describes a century-old yard with inland-waterway access toward the Baltic, White, Caspian, and Azov seas, an in-house design bureau, and experience building civilian, naval, border-service, tug, patrol, air-cavity, and special-purpose vessels. In this catalog, the yard is tied most directly to Project 21820 Dyugon landing craft and the Project 07452 Chusovoy intelligence ship.

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The shipyard traces its origin to 1920, when Yaroslavsky Shipyard was founded after early boatbuilding activity in the city. Its own history describes wooden river and marine craft in the 1920s and 1930s, wartime production of boats armed with Katyusha rocket launchers, and a postwar reconstruction that expanded the plant into larger marine work.

From the 1950s through the late Soviet period, Yaroslavl moved from smaller craft into medium freezer trawlers, Project 502 and 503 fishing vessels, Project 745 and 1454 seagoing rescue tugs, Project 10410 border patrol ships, Project 1241-2 small anti-submarine ships, and Project 14460 amphibious craft. The modern product page still emphasizes mixed civil and government work: tugboats, emergency-rescue support vessels, dredging-support craft, fast boats, air-cavity boats, hovercraft, diving vessels, tankers, trawlers, and other specialized river and sea vessels.

For naval catalog purposes, Yaroslavl is most visible as a production yard rather than a single design bureau. Russian ship references list it as the yard for the Project 07452 Chusovoy intelligence ship and for three named Project 21820 Dyugon landing craft, including Denis Davydov, Leytenant Rimskiy-Korsakov, and Michman Lermontov. Those records connect the inland Volga shipyard to Russian auxiliary, landing, and special-purpose naval hulls without making conflict-use claims on this manufacturer page.

landing craft and air-cavity boatsnaval auxiliary and special-purpose vesselsborder guard and patrol shipsseagoing tug and rescue vesselsriver and sea commercial vesselsship repair, hull construction, and metalworking

Notable Systems

Dyugon-class landing craft (Project 21820), Air-cavity landing craft, Naval Systems

Dyugon-class landing craft (Project 21820)

Air-cavity landing craft

RussianShips.info lists Yaroslavl Shipyard as the construction yard for three Project 21820 Dyugon landing craft: Denis Davydov, Leytenant Rimskiy-Korsakov, and Michman Lermontov.

Sources: RussianShips Project 21820 landing craft
Project 07452 Chusovoy intelligence ship, Intelligence-gathering ship, Naval Systems

Project 07452 Chusovoy intelligence ship

Intelligence-gathering ship

RussianShips.info lists Project 07452 as a one-ship Yaroslavl Shipyard build, and Janes identifies Tchusovoy/Chusovoy as a modified Sorum-class intelligence-gathering vessel.

Sources: RussianShips Project 745 and 07452 reference, Janes Tchusovoy Baltic sighting

Manufacturer History

  1. Shipyard founded

    The official history page says Yaroslavsky Shipyard was founded in 1920 and developed from early boatbuilding into a larger shipbuilding plant.

    Sources: Official Yaroslavl Shipyard history

  2. Seagoing and naval production expands

    The yard's history describes this period as one of larger-vessel construction, including Project 745 and 1454 rescue tugs, Project 1241-2 small anti-submarine ships, Project 10410 border patrol ships, and Project 14460 amphibious craft.

    Sources: Official Yaroslavl Shipyard history

  3. Project 07452 completed

    RussianShips.info records the Project 07452 ship later known as Chusovoy as a Yaroslavl Shipyard vessel completed on 31 December 1987.

    Sources: RussianShips Project 745 and 07452 reference

  4. Denis Davydov laid down

    RussianShips.info lists the Project 21820 landing craft Denis Davydov, yard number 701, as laid down at Yaroslavl Shipyard on 18 January 2012.

    Sources: RussianShips Project 21820 landing craft

  5. Project 23470 tug laid down

    The shipyard reported the keel-laying of the Project 23470 sea tug Vladimir Kovalev, illustrating continued government and auxiliary-vessel work at the Yaroslavl yard.

    Sources: Official Yaroslavl Shipyard homepage

Russian and English sources vary between Yaroslavl Shipyard, Yaroslavsky Shipyard, and Yaroslavsky Shipbuilding Plant. This profile uses the public catalog's canonical English name while preserving legal and Cyrillic aliases for source matching.

Manufacturer Sources

  • Official Yaroslavl Shipyard homepagePublisher: Yaroslavl Shipyard | Note: Supports official website, shipyard overview, Volga location, product categories, capacity figures, contact address, and recent public news items. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • Official Yaroslavl Shipyard historyPublisher: Yaroslavl Shipyard | Note: Supports the 1920 founding, historical product evolution, wartime boat production, postwar reconstruction, 1970s-1980s naval and auxiliary vessel work, 1990s legal-form change, and modern government-order context. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • Official Yaroslavl Shipyard productsPublisher: Yaroslavl Shipyard | Note: Supports current product areas, including tugboats, emergency-rescue support vessels, fast boats, air-cavity boats, hovercraft, diving vessels, tankers, trawlers, and other specialized vessels. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • Official Yaroslavl Shipyard contactsPublisher: Yaroslavl Shipyard | Note: Supports the public legal name and headquarters address at 1 Korabelnaya Street, Yaroslavl, Russia. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • RussianShips Project 21820 landing craftPublisher: RussianShips.info | Note: Supports Project 21820 production context, Yaroslavl-built Denis Davydov, Leytenant Rimskiy-Korsakov, and Michman Lermontov, and the Project 21820 landing-craft catalog connection. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • RussianShips Project 745 and 07452 referencePublisher: RussianShips.info | Note: Supports Project 745 production context, Project 07452 as a Yaroslavl Shipyard one-ship branch, Chusovoy naming history, and the Project 07452 catalog connection. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • Janes Tchusovoy Baltic sightingPublisher: Janes | Note: Supports Chusovoy/Tchusovoy identity, modified Sorum-class background, Yaroslavl build context, and intelligence-gathering role. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • OFAC Ukraine-/Russia-related designationsPublisher: U.S. Department of the Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control | Note: Supports legal-name aliases, address context, and U.S. sanctions listing for Yaroslavsky Shipbuilding Plant. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • Denis Davydov landing craft.jpegPublisher: Wikimedia Commons | Note: Supports image provenance and CC0 licensing context for a Yaroslavl-built Project 21820 landing craft image. | Accessed: 2026-07-11

Produced weapons

Category

Naval Systems

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

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