TSAMTO, February 8. Admiralty Shipyards (part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation) celebrated the half-century anniversary of the creation of the Leningrad Admiralty Association (LAO).
The largest shipbuilding association in the country was formed in January 1972 as a result of the merger of the Admiralty and Novo-Admiralty plants.
The priority activity of LAO has become underwater shipbuilding. The team of the association built export diesel-electric submarines of the I641K project, unique titanium submarines of the 705 project, nuclear submarines of the 671 project and its modifications. In the 1980s, the team began work on a new generation of export submarines of the 877EKM project.
After the merger of the two plants, the complex for the construction of deep-sea vehicles (HA) received great development. Thanks to the research conducted by LAO in this direction, the depth of immersion of the HA increased from 300 to 6000 m.
It was at LAO that in 1972-1984, to fulfill the production program for surface ships, depending on their length and duration of the slipway period, the Admiralty began to use the simultaneous construction of two or three objects on one slipway - an experience that JSC Admiralty Shipyards successfully applies today.
In just 50 years, LAO has built: 26 surface ships of various classes and purposes, 44 submarines (including 19 for export), 8 experimental deep-sea stations, 67 deep-sea vehicles. From 1971 to 1991, 145 ships and vessels of different orientation were transferred to the fleet.
Currently, Admiralty Shipyards JSC successfully continues the production traditions laid down half a century ago, is the center of non-nuclear submarine shipbuilding in Russia and is actively developing a surface shipbuilding program.
The message is posted in open access on the website of JSC "USC".
