Naval yards

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Including Sevmash, there are six naval yards in Murmansk and Arkhangelsk counties. Sevmash is the only yard that constructs nuclear submarines. As part of servicing the submarines, the yards carry out operations in defuelling, refuelling, general maintenance, repair and work in the dry dock where the vessels' hulls and structures are attended to. In addition to the naval yards, there are several floating docks stationed at the various bases. Each of the floating docks has a crew of 100 men whose primary task is the servicing of nuclear submarines between missions.[400] The Northern Fleet also has a number of service ships which assist in conducting minor maintenance and repair work on the submarines. The first refuelling of a Russian submarine was carried out at Severodvinsk in 1961 (K-3).[401]

In the 1960s, naval yard no. 35, Sevmorput, was rebuilt to accommodate nuclear submarines.[402] Simultaneously new yards were built and existing facilities were expanded, including yards no. 85 Nerpa and no. 10 Shkval [403]


Footnotes

[400] Mormul, N., Note, 1995. Return
[401] Osipenko, L. G., Shiltsov, L. M. and Mormul, N. G., Atomnaya Podvodnaya Epopeya, Moscow 1994. Return
[402] Publicity brochure from naval yard No. 35, Sevmorput, 1992. Return
[403] Morskoy sbornik , no. 8 - 1995. Return

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