The Sevastopol Shipyard was founded in 1783 on the south side of
Sevastopol Bay as Akhtiar Admiralty to maintain the ships of the
Black Sea Fleet. It occasionally built
frigates and smaller
sailing ships between 1813 and 1851. It was renamed the Lazarev Admiralty after Admiral
Mikhail Lazarev who was assigned as the general commander of the Black Sea Ports and fleet in 1834. The dockyard was transferred to the
Russian Steam Navigation and Trading Company in 1858 after the damage caused by the
Crimean War of 1854–1855. It was nationalized on 16 August 1897. The
Soviets separated it from the naval base in 1919 and named it the Sevastopol Shipyard, Engineering and Electromechanical Works (Russian: ''Sevastopol'skii sudostroitel'nyi, mashinostroitel'nyi i elektromekhanicheskii zavod
). The dockyard was renamed the Sevastopol Naval Shipyard (Sevastopol'skii morskoi zavod
) on either 13 January 1921 or January 1930. It was again renamed Shipyard No. 201 (in the name of Sergo Ordzhonikidze) on 30 December 1936 and became Shipyard in the name of Sergo Ordzhonikidze No. 201 (Zavod imeni Sergo Ordzhonikidze No. 201'') on 15 May 1940. On April 3, 2015, the Sevastopol Shipyard was renamed "Sevastopol Shipyard named after
Sergo Ordzhonikidze" (Russian:
ГУП «Севастопольский морской завод имени Серго Орджоникидзе»). On April 4, 2015, the Vice Prime Minister
Dmitry Rogozin visited the plant. As of April 21, 2015, the plant began to repair ships and serve the ships of the
Black Sea Fleet. As of March 2017, the shipyard is under the ownership of Zvezdochka Shipyard, a subsidiary of
United Shipbuilding Corporation. Under Ukrainian law, the shipyard is a part of the Sevastopol Marine Plant (;
Sevmorzavod)
joint-stock company (JSC). On January 31, 2018, the
government of Russia transferred control of the shipyard to the Russian government under the control of the
Ministry of Industry and Trade. During the
Russian Invasion of Ukraine, Russian sources reported that the facility was attacked by ten Ukrainian
missiles and three
USVs, injuring 24 people and damaging two unidentified ships during the early morning of 13 September 2023. The ships damaged were later identified as the landing ship
Minsk and the
Rostov-on-Don, a
Kilo-class submarine. The shipyard has built two special catamarans, each one formed by two
barges, to move in place railway and highway arcs of the
Crimean Bridge, and also tankers and other vessels. == Facilities and services ==