VYMPEL Joint Stock Shipbuilding Company
was founded in 1930.

Throughout its history spanning over seventy years, the company has manufactured fast scooters, torpedo boats, utility boats for the engineering troops, special-purpose torpedo retrievers, fuel replenishment boats for hydroplanes, ambulance vessels, fire fighting vessels, towing motorboats and pontoon bridge erecting boats, timber rafting boats, pleasure boats, as well as attack craft both for the Russian Naval Forces and for export.

At present VYMPEL Shipbuilding Company JSC serially builds advanced MOLNIYA missile boats (Project 12421), along with MIRAGE (Project 14310) and MANGUST (Project 12150) fast patrol boats, developed by St.-Petersburg-based ALMAZ Central Marine Design Bureau. Special-purpose new-generation MARS fire fighting vessels (Project 14613), small-tonnage fishing vessels (Project 13311), small-tonnage freezer fishing/shrimping trawlers (Project 13309), survey vessels (Project 16611), harbour tugboats, cargo/passenger boats, and utility towing motorboats.

VYMPEL Shipbuilding Company JSC is a member of the Medium- and Small-Tonnage Shipbuilding Concern.

The company's premises occupy 50 hectares and comprise the following basic manufacturing areas:

1. The HULL BLANK PRODUCTION SHOP provided with special-purpose mechanised equipment for primary processing and plasma arc-cutting of steel sheet stock;
2. The COVERED BUILDING BERTH at which ships and special-purpose vessels displacing up to 1500 tons can be built. The building berth is equipped with two progressive positional assembling lines;
3. The MACHINE-WORKING, PIPE-BENDING and WOOD-WORKING Shops;
4. The LAUNCHING ARRANGEMENT enabling the company to launch and hoist vessels weighing up to 1500 tons, measuring up to 80 meters in length and up to 14 meters in width.
   

Chairman of the Board of Directors:
Mikhail V. Kheifits

Director General:
Victor B.Doskin

Technical Director:
Bogdan R.Lapkovsky

Marketing Director:
Dmitry A. Belyakov
Phone: ++7(0855) 20-23-04