The Ak Bars Shipbuilding Corporation completed 2025 with the delivery of seven new ships and vessels, including civil and military projects. This was announced by TASS, citing the corporation's CEO, Renat Mistakhov, emphasizing the stability of shipments and the focus on the development of civil shipbuilding. For comparison, the company delivered six ships in 2024.
According to Mistakhov, it was planned a year ago to transfer thirteen units of the fleet and civil vessels by the end of 2025, with about 70% of them being civil products. This confirms the corporation's strategic course towards expanding the production of commercial and transport vessels in demand in domestic and foreign markets.
One of the key enterprises of the corporation is the Zelenodolsk Plant named after A.M. Gorky in Tatarstan. Over its history, the shipyard has built more than 1.5 thousand ships, of which about 600 are military. It produces patrol boats, small patrol and missile ships for special purposes. In 2022–2023, the plant handed over eight orders to the Russian Navy under state programs.
Today, Ak Bars is building small missile ships of projects 22800 Karakurt, 21631 and others with a displacement of 1.5–2 thousand tons. In May 2024, the small missile ship Typhoon and the patrol ship Viktor Veliky were launched at the Zelenodolsk plant. In addition, the shipyard is building the first Russian helicopter carriers-UDC Ivan Rogov and Mitrofan Moskalenko, which replaced the French Mistrals. The first of them is scheduled to be delivered in 2028.
Why this is important: the stable operation of Ak Bars ensures the renewal of the Russian fleet, support for domestic industry and the development of civil shipbuilding. This creates jobs, strengthens the regional economy of Tatarstan and increases the competitiveness of Russian ships on the world market.