Nikolay Zharkov
Director General
Engineering
United Shipbuilding Cooperation
Russian Federation
Biography
Krasnoye Sormovo Shipyard (a member of the United Shipbuilding Corporation) is one of the oldest Russia’s shipbuilding companies founded in 1849. The Shipyard added a special page to the history of domestic military and commercial shipbuilding. Throughout its history the Shipyard has built about 2000 vessels of civil fleet. Over 75 years more than three hundred submarines and rescue vehicles (25 of them are nuclear) have been built and modernized by Krasnoye Sormovo Shipyard.
Research Interest
At present the Shipyard builds vessels of commercial fleet meeting the requirements of international conventions on reliability and safety. Four times Krasnoye Sormovo tankers were included in the list of Significant Ships of the Year by the Royal Institution of Naval Architects (RINA).
