Yantar Baltic Shipbuilding plant (formerly Shipyard 820)
Yantar Baltic Shipbuilding plant is engaged in shipbuilding, ship repair, mechanical engineering, and work with light alloys. Yantar is a surface vessel center, historically responsible for Krivaks, Alligators, Udaloys, and Ivan Rogovs. By 1995, the Neustrashimyy-class frigates were being built there. The shipyard continues the Neustrashimy frigate series producing upgraded sister ships along with constructing a large amphibious ship Ivan Gren for the Russian Navy, a Sprut-class pollution control vessel and a training ship.
Yantar [Amber] is the largest shipbuilding enterprise in the Kaliningrad Region. It can execute turn key building, shiprepair works, conversion lengthening of any complexity for ships of up to 150x26 m with light ship weight up to 10000 t. It has the full complex of facilities for steel cleaning, cutting and bending. Shipyard Yantar disposes of a design department developing the high quality project and working-construction documentation. There are separate workshops for light alloys and mechanical engineering.
- Shipbuilding complex Yantar: Two building places: L=306 m, W=24 m. Cranes: 2 x 30 t, 5 x 80 t. Shipbuilding complex Yantar? allows building vessels with launching weight up to 12000 ton.
- Building hall: Four slipways L=110 m, W=42 m. Cranes: 6 x 30-90 t. (Free height under crane hook 30 m)
- Shipbuilding complex Burevestnik Three building places: L=164 m, W=16m. Cranes: 2 x 20 t, 2 x 30 t.
- Piers of 1500 m long in total. Cranes along the piers for ship service: 9 x 20 t.Floating crane: 100 t.
- Tugs: 2 x 1200 hp, 1?… 160 hp, 1?… 150 hp.
- Two floating docks: Dock No. 8: 150 x 29 m, 12000 t. Dock No. 2: 131 x 22,5 m, 6000 t
Over a period of six years [1993-1999] a total of three general directors had taken turns at running the Baltic Shipbuilding plant Yantar, which manufactures the most advanced warships. Because of abrupt reduction of the state defence order one third of workers were laid off, and the rest didn't receive their wages for months. In 1997 a new general director, Aleksei Zhirenko, came to Yantar. He made several profitable contracts for building of dry-ships for foreign companies, and the enterprise started three-shift work again. But in September 1999 Aleksei Zhirenko suddenly resigned without explanation.
"Yantar' Baltic ship-building plant" public company has generated an order book during 2000 and 2001. Up to 75% of its orders falls to ships manufacturing for foreign companies. In 2001 "Yantar'" constructed 8 ship's hulls equipped with the basic mechanisms, for Norway, Holland and Germany. For the previous ten years the plant had not produced any vessel for the Russian fish branch. The plant continued to execute state military orders for construction of patrol ship "Yaroslav Mudry" (its readiness is 75%), multi-purpose patrol ship "Novik" and for repair of the ship of Federal Border Service of the Russian Federation.
On 10 November 2003 ShipbuildingRu reported that Yantar had signed a contract with the Dutch Zanen on building two multi purpose vessels for carrying chemical cargoes. Each ship is 130m long. The first will be delivered on March, 31 next year, the second on June, 31, 2004. Each ship will be 70% finished. In 2002-2003 Yantar used to build similar ships for the Dutch companies "Dalmulder&Dijko" and "Breko". At the same time, the shipyard was finishing the repair of the sea landing air cushion ship Mordovia for the Baltic fleet. This is the third “air cushion” repaired by Yantar in 2003. Apart from this the patrol boat Nastoichivy (Insistent) had been delivered for repair.
On 07 August 2007 ShipbuildingRu reported that Kaliningrad based Yantar shipyard had laid down the head project 1135.6 frigate for Navy of India. For this contract Yantar had invested considerable means in modernization of the manufacturing infrastructure, bought a lot of modern equipment. Construction of the frigates will be completed in 2012.
