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The Zvezda shipyard is a large shipbuilding and engineering complex in the town of Bolshoy Kamen in the Russian Far East, owned by United Shipbuilding Corporation.
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Current work includes ships for Rosneft and Gazprom.
Nuclear decommissioning
At the end of the Cold War, the Zvezda shipyard was used to decommission Soviet nuclear submarines, with funding and support from the USA and Canada under the Nunn–Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction initiative.
Expansion
Following the decommissioning work, there were plans to expand and redevelop the shipyard to construct larger new ships. Work on the latest attempt at expansion began in 2009; the Russian government has criticised delays and threatened to hand control of the project to third parties, perhaps including Rosneft and Gazprom. In the longer term, the shipyard may be opened up to foreign investors as part of a broader plan to make the Russian shipbuilding industry capable of competing with shipbuilders in other countries.
When the expansion is complete, the shipyard would be able to build ships up to 360m and 250,000dwt.
Zvezda DSME