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7-539: Zelenodolsk Plant became an important military shipbuilder when equipment was evacuated there from the western USSR early in World War II and the yard began building Artillerist-class submarine chasers. After the war, the shipyard specialized in building submarine chaser and small escort ship classes designed by its collocated design bureau, including the Kronshtadt , SO-1, Poti , and Grisha classes. Following expansion of

14-420: A Soviet design which were exported throughout the communist bloc in the 1950s. The first ship, BO-270, was built at Zelenodolsk in 1945-1947 and a total of 227 were built for Soviet Navy (175) and border guard until 1955. As well as this, twenty Project 357 ( Libau class) despatch vessels were built on the same hull, but were lightly armed. The ships served in 1950s–1960s on all Soviet fleets and flotillas in

21-705: The DOSAAF Voluntary Society for use as training ships . Two boats of this class, #271 & #274 participated in the Sino-South Vietnamese naval battle in the Paracel Islands on January 19, 1974, with #274 being heavily damaged; however, #274 was able to make it back to the Chinese base at Yongxing Island for emergency repair after the battle, and returned to Hainan Islands the next day. Despite their obsolescence, these boats remained active well into

28-496: The 1950s, Meteor-type passenger hydrofoils (designed in Nizhniy Novgorod) and Caspian Sea trawlers during the 1960s, and 3,700-ton Tatarstan-class refrigerator ships for the fishing industry in the 1970s. This Russian corporation or company article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Kronshtadt-class submarine chaser Project 122bis ( NATO codename Kronshtadt class) submarine chasers were

35-596: The Baltic Sea, Black Sea, Caspian Sea, Arctic Ocean and Pacific Ocean as part of Soviet coastal anti-submarine defences. Ships were also given to the Soviet Border Guards and were used actively as border patrol ships. Most of the Soviet sub-chasers were decommissioned between 1958 and 1970, although some were in service until the 1990s as training stations. Thirteen of the decommissioned and disarmed ships were delivered to

42-629: The mid-1990s. Although the ships are no longer capable of venturing into open ocean, these units remain on the People's Liberation Army Navy ’s list of its reserve fleet, actively used as weaponry training boats for naval militia in various military maritime districts in China. Additionally, vessels of this class in Chinese service are used to take Chinese children enrolled in military / naval summer camps and junior military / naval academies for short cruises for patriotic education and public relations missions. Due to

49-777: The yard in the early 1970s, Zelenodolsk Plant produced the larger escorts of the Koni class , which was intended exclusively for export. The Koni class was succeeded by the Gepard class . Zelenodolsk Plant also built the large missile-armed surface effect ships of the Dergach class (designed by the Almaz Central Marine Design Bureau in St. Petersburg), as well as some naval auxiliaries. It has generally also had at least one civilian ship type in production, including Zelenodolsk-class river tugs in

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