Manufacturer catalog

Zelenodolsk Gorky Plant

Zelenodolsk Gorky Plant refers to the Zelenodolsk shipbuilding enterprise named for A. M. Gorky in Zelenodolsk, Republic of Tatarstan, Russia. Public sources describe the Volga River plant as a major Russian producer of small and medium naval ships, including corvettes, patrol vessels, missile ships, river-sea vessels, hydrofoils, hovercraft, shipborne equipment, metal structures, and industrial machinery.

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The plant's location on the Volga links its production geography to Russia's inland-waterway network. Cbonds and GlobalSecurity both describe the yard's ability to move completed vessels toward the Black Sea, Caspian Sea, Baltic/North Sea basins, and other connected waterways, a practical factor for a shipyard building compact river-sea and coastal combatants.

The defense catalog connection is strongest around Soviet and Russian small combatant classes. RussianShips.info lists 19 Project 1124 Albatros / Grisha-class anti-submarine corvettes built at the Shipyard named after A. M. Gorky in Zelenodolsk, while Naval News identifies Project 21631 Buyan-M corvettes as Zelenodolsk-built ships designed by Zelenodolsk Design Bureau. These are production-context claims only; service histories and conflict-use evidence remain with the individual weapon records.

Naval shipbuildingCorvettes and patrol shipsRiver-sea vesselsMarine machinery and shipborne equipmentMetal structures and industrial equipment

Notable Systems

Project 21631 Buyan-M-class guided-missile corvette, Guided-missile corvette, Naval Systems

Project 21631 Buyan-M-class guided-missile corvette

Guided-missile corvette

Naval News reported that Graivoron was built at the Zelenodolsk Plant named after A. M. Gorky and described the Project 21631 line as a Zelenodolsk Design Bureau design delivered by the Zelenodolsk plant for the Russian Navy.

Sources: Buyan-M-class Corvette Graivoron Commissioned with Russia's Black Sea Fleet - Naval News
Project 1124 Albatros / Grisha-class anti-submarine corvette, Anti-submarine corvette class, Naval Systems

Project 1124 Albatros / Grisha-class anti-submarine corvette

Anti-submarine corvette class

RussianShips.info lists 19 Project 1124 ships under Shipyard named after A. M. Gorky, Zelenodolsk, supporting the plant's historical production role in the Grisha-class anti-submarine corvette family.

Sources: Project 1124 - Small Anti-Submarine Ships - RussianShips.info

Manufacturer History

  1. Volga shipyard origins

    GlobalSecurity describes the Zelenodolsk works named after A. M. Gorky as founded in 1895 on the Volga River and later developed from a state-run ship-repair facility into a diversified shipbuilding enterprise.

    Sources: Zelenodolskoye Zavod imeni A.M.Gorky - GlobalSecurity.org

  2. Registered joint-stock company identity

    Cbonds records Joint Stock Company Zelenodolsk Plant named after A. M. Gorky with PSRN registration dated May 16, 2003 and lists the plant as an operating Russian organization.

    Sources: Zelenodolsk Plant named after A.M. Gorky - Cbonds

  3. First Buyan-M ships enter Russian Navy service

    Naval News reported that the first two Project 21631 Buyan-M ships, Grad Sviyazhsk and Uglich, joined the Russian Navy's Caspian Flotilla on July 27, 2014 after Zelenodolsk production.

    Sources: Buyan-M-class Corvette Graivoron Commissioned with Russia's Black Sea Fleet - Naval News

  4. U.S. sanctions designation

    The U.S. Treasury listed Zelenodolsk Shipyard Plant named after A. M. Gorky under the Ukraine-/Russia-related sanctions program, recording the Zelenodolsk address and alternate legal names.

    Sources: Ukraine-/Russia-related Designations - U.S. Treasury

Website links
Official Zelenodolsk Shipyard websiteAk Bars Shipbuilding Corporation overviewOFAC sanctions-list entry

Public English sources use overlapping names for the same Zelenodolsk shipbuilding enterprise, including Zelenodolsk Gorky Plant, Zelenodolsk Plant named after A. M. Gorky, and Zelenodolsk Shipyard. Those alternate labels are already represented by separate published manufacturer records, so they are not repeated as aliases here.

Manufacturer Sources

  • About Corporation - Ak Bars Shipbuilding CorporationPublisher: Ak Bars Shipbuilding Corporation | Note: Supports the corporate relationship: Ak Bars lists Zelenodolsk Plant named after A.M. Gorky JSC among Shipbuilding Corporation Ak Bars enterprises and describes group priorities in design engineering, shipbuilding, components, ship repair, and maintenance. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • Zelenodolsk Plant named after A.M. Gorky - CbondsPublisher: Cbonds | Note: Supports legal-name, country, website, address, registration, profile, production-capability, and Volga inland-waterway context for the operating organization. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • Zelenodolskoye Zavod imeni A.M.Gorky - GlobalSecurity.orgPublisher: GlobalSecurity.org | Note: Supports founding date, shipyard history, product focus, shipbuilding capacity up to small and medium vessels, marine machinery production, and industrial-equipment context. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • Zelenodolsk Plant named after A. M. Gorky, JSC - ExpocentrePublisher: Expocentre | Note: Supports address, official website, contact context, and civil-industrial focus areas including oil-and-gas equipment, metallurgy, titanium casting, and bridge structures. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • Buyan-M-class Corvette Graivoron Commissioned with Russia's Black Sea Fleet - Naval NewsPublisher: Naval News | Note: Supports the Project 21631 Buyan-M notable-system connection, Zelenodolsk Design Bureau design context, Zelenodolsk Plant production, and publicly reported class specifications. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • Project 1124 - Small Anti-Submarine Ships - RussianShips.infoPublisher: RussianShips.info | Note: Supports the Project 1124 Albatros / Grisha-class notable-system connection by listing Shipyard named after A.M. Gorky, Zelenodolsk as the yard for 19 units and providing class-level technical context. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • Ukraine-/Russia-related Designations - U.S. TreasuryPublisher: U.S. Department of the Treasury | Note: Supports sanctions-list identity context, alternate legal names, address, and the March 15, 2019 U.S. designation of Zelenodolsk Shipyard Plant named after A. M. Gorky. | 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 1124 Albatros / Grisha-class anti-submarine corvette, Anti-submarine corvette class, Naval Systems2014 Russia-Ukraine WarProject 1124 Albatros / Grisha-class anti-submarine corvetteAnti-submarine corvette classBuilt in: Soviet Union / Ukraine / RussiaThe Project 1124 Albatros, known to NATO as the Grisha class, is a Soviet anti-submarine corvette family built for coastal ASW patrols, base protection, and convoy escort. The compact ships combined sonar, Osa-M point-defense missiles, torpedo tubes, and RBU-6000 launchers; Ukrainian Grisha-family hulls later became part of the 2014 Russia-Ukraine War record through the Crimea naval seizures and the destruction of ex-Ukrainian Ternopil as a Russian Black Sea Fleet target ship in 2023.