Northern Shipyard

Construction of the shipyard No. 1 began in 1934 on the coast of Okocha Bay . Initially, the plant was built as a supply base for the Komsomol plant No. 199 (now the Amur Shipyard ). In 1937, the first ship was repaired at the factory. In accordance with the decision of the SNK of the USSR of June 1, 1939, it was transferred to the People’s Commissariat of the Navy of the USSR (NKMF).

In 1941, the plant was transferred to the People’s Commissariat of the Shipbuilding Industry (NKSP), in November 1942 it received the name "Plant No. 263". In order to provide the plant with organizational and economic assistance at the beginning of production activity by order of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR, it was identified as a branch of plant No. 202 (now Dalzavod ). To equip the plant, equipment was allocated from import that was transported to Sovetskaya Gavan. Plant No. 202 sent to its new branch production and auxiliary workers, equipped the plant management and workshops, allocated tools, materials and equipment (both according to the order and additional) required for production. However, having a shortage of production workers at the main enterprise, Dalzavod could not fully provide the branch, which consisted of 130 production workers, 65 auxiliary personnel and 70 engineering and technical workers. To reach the planned production output, plant No. 263 required another 800 workers and 200 additional support personnel. In addition, the new plant was in dire need of ship repair and fuels and lubricants and fuel, which was covered by the Northern Pacific Flotilla , whose ships were being repaired at the plant, and local industry enterprises. The leadership of the Dalzavod believed that to solve these problems, plant No. 263 should be allocated to a separate enterprise, however ^[1] .

On October 29, 1944, the State Defense Committee of the USSR adopted Decree No. 6836 with “On Measures for Shipbuilding Factories of the NKSP in the Far East” ^[2] , which, among other things, determined a set of measures for the construction of factory No. 263 in Sovetskaya Gavan. In particular, the drug addict of the shipbuilding industry, I. I. Nosenko, was instructed to separate plant No. 263 from subordination to the Dalzavod into an independent enterprise ^[3] .

In 1945, the plant was again transferred to the NKMF (since 1946, after the ministries were transformed into People's Commissariats - MMF). Then he received the status of an independent ship repair enterprise. For open correspondence, the name of the plant “ PO Box 105 ” was used ^[4] . After the Great Patriotic War, construction continued, and Japanese prisoners of war took part in it.

In the 1950s, with the advent of experienced engineering personnel, the plant began to raise labor productivity, planned targets began to be met, and the cultural and living conditions of factory workers began to improve. Among those who came to the plant at that time were young engineers from the institutes of Vladivostok , Kaliningrad , Leningrad, workers from vocational schools in Leningrad , Kerch , Sretensk and other cities ^[5] .

Since 1954, the plant is run by the Ministry of Shipbuilding Industry (MSP of the USSR).

Until the 1960s The SSRZ was mainly engaged in the repair of military vessels, among them mine minesweepers , torpedo boats , combat and patrol ships , diesel submarines , destroyers , artillery and missile cruisers ^[5] .

In 1965, the plant became subordinate to the USSR Ministry of Fisheries , after which it began to deal mainly with ship repair of the fishing industry fleet. In particular, production of industrial equipment was organized for fishermen of the Far Eastern basin, and in 1964 a unique floating dredge with a bucket with a capacity of 600 liters was built at the SSRZ for the Lenzoloto mining enterprise ^[5] .

Since 1967, the plant began to specialize in the repair of refrigerators and RS-300 refrigerators (such as the Angara built in Sweden) and production (the Bratsk type built in the German Democratic Republic and license plates built in Denmark) ^[4] . In 1970, a floating dock No. 2 with a carrying capacity of 8,500 tons, built by Kherson shipbuilders and a giant dock from Sweden with a carrying capacity of 27,000 tons, appeared at the plant. The task of dock repair of ships and vessels of any tonnage year-round was practically solved ^[5] .

On June 2, 1972, the workshop of the Prodmash factory was established. He performed repairs of the fish processing equipment of vessels under repair at the berths of the SSRZ, as well as the technological equipment of the city’s food enterprises (brewery, dairy, sausage factory, bakery, canning and culinary workshops of the fishing base). In 1973, the workshop produced metal structures for crossbars for bridge supports and lattice barriers for the roadbed during its construction across the Khadia River ^[4] .

In addition to ship repair, SSRZ produced other products. Every year, the plant produced tens of thousands of rubles of various furniture, souvenirs and other products, in particular, it made sofa beds of several modifications, soft chairs, folding book tables, hangers in the hallway, wardrobes, souvenir coffee tables with inlaid hardwood veneer, products with palekh painting. The manufactured products were in demand among the population of the city and district ^[4] .

SSRZ was, along with the shipyard No. 1 of the MMF of the USSR , the city-forming enterprises of Sovetskaya Gavan, its team made a great contribution to the construction and improvement of the city. Stroytrest No. 508, with the active assistance of the SSRZ, built several dozen apartment buildings in the city. The management of the SSRZ initiated construction of the Spartak city stadium in 1969, the plant's staff made the main contribution to its construction. In the city, a monument was erected to the soldier-liberator (on Victory Square) and a monument to the Sovgavans who died during the Great Patriotic War (on Lenin Street), designed by the factory artist A. S. Gorobchenko. Attention was paid to the development and improvement of the pioneer camp "Utes", where in the summer the children of workers of the plant and other enterprises of the city had a rest, as well as the Perekat camp site built by the factory workers. An auxiliary farm of the plant was created, providing its workers with milk and meat. Finally, the SSRZ team initiated the development of collective gardening in Sovetskaya Gavan: the success of the Pioneer horticultural partnership created by this team refuted the view that gardening in the city was impossible due to the harsh climate. A great contribution to the implementation of all of the above was made by B. L. Tsendrovsky, the chief engineer of the plant in 1958-1971 and its director in 1971-1987 ^[5] .

The collective farm staff kept the leadership in socialist competition among the household farms of the region. For 1981, the team was declared the winner with the delivery of the rolling Red Banner ^[4] .

In 1983, on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the plant, the photo album “Northern Ship Repair Plant. 1943-1983 ” ^[6] .

To protect plant workers from a possible nuclear threat, two anti-radiation shelters of about 500 people each were laid.

In 1992, SSRZ was transformed into an open joint-stock company - OJSC Northern Ship Repair Plant. In the 1990s, he was engaged in the repair of civil and military vessels, the equipment of fishing vessels, as well as the cutting of vessels into metal. The corporatization did not help the company survive in the new economic realities of Russia - by 2001, it, like the second ship repair plant of the city, Anchor (former factory No. 1 of the USSR MMF), suffered from low production capacity, high cost of work and lack of skilled workers personnel, since 1998, plant workers almost stopped paying salaries (it was paid only in 2002, after the liquidation of the SRSZ). In these conditions, the Head of the Administration of the Khabarovsk Territory Viktor Ishaev issued a decree on the restructuring of the SSRZ and the Yakor plant - the existence of two shipyards in the same city was declared inappropriate, and it was assumed that a single management company would manage their capacities ^[7] . However, the restructuring did not take place due to the fact that on January 31, 2002 OJSC Northern Ship Repair Plant was declared bankrupt, and on July 22, 2002 the Khabarovsk Territory Arbitration Court rejected the cassation appeal in this case, and thus the bankruptcy decision entered into force ^{[ 8]} .

Currently, the plant is not working, its premises are abandoned, but the territory is partially protected.

• Timofei Vasilievich Safronov (1939-1942)
• Boleslav Lvovich Tsendrovsky (1971-1987). Honorary Citizen of Sovetskaya Gavan.
• Nikolai Ivanovich Shurpik (? -2002) ^[9]

• Valentina Nikodimovna Monastyrshina — gas welder of the SSRZ, deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. Honorary citizen of Sovetskaya Gavan.

• Northern Shipyard. An article on the Our Harbor website
• Northern Shipyard. Article and modern photographs of the territory of the former factory on the site of Kit-DV
•   . Abandoned Northern Shipyard (neopr.) . LiveJournal (August 25, 2018). Date of treatment March 31, 2019.
• Plant number 263 on the site oboron-prom.ru