The expedition to the enterprises of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region has taken place! From November 21 to 26, I visited a dozen different enterprises in the Northern capital and its environs, where I was lucky enough not only to make photo reports, but also to interview them. The first enterprise that I inspected was the Leningrad shipyard "Pella", located in the city of Otradnoye. This is what we will talk about today.
The main products of the Pella plant are new generation tugs, modern, comfortable and reliable, because they work successfully in all major ports and naval bases of Russia. Individual specimens can be found abroad: in Latvia, Lithuania, even in Italy.
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Almost every one of my Severodvinsk reports features a tugboat manufactured by Pella. The tugboats of the Northern Fleet "Viktor Tikhonov" and "Anatoly Tarasov", as well as the tugboat of the Severodvinsk enterprise "Zvezdochka" "Alexander Zryachev" are real "workhorses" and perform the most difficult tasks, including the removal of ships under construction and repair from the waters of the enterprises "Zvezdochka" ", "Sevmash" and the Belomorsk naval base.
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The company is located on two sites - old and new. The old one is located on the territory of the former Pellina Palace, where the plant management, the engineering division "Pella-Mash" and "Pella-Fiord" (fiberglass shipbuilding) are located. The new site is located on the border of the city and the region in the village of Sapernoye.
Story
The old site is located on the territory of the former Pellinsky Palace, built under Catherine II. Today, all that remains of the palace, dismantled to its foundations by order of Paul I, is the carriage and stable building and the outbuilding of the Postal Station.
4. The carriage and stable building and the outbuilding of the Postal Station of the Pellina Palace Complex.
In the 30s of the twentieth century, a trailer plant of the USSR Ministry of Forestry Industry was built on this territory, and in 1950 shipbuilding production was organized there, after which the main products of the plant became tugboats, speedboats, pilot boats and other small vessels.
In 1957, the enterprise was renamed the Leningrad Ship Mechanical Plant. The enterprise's capacity has grown over time, and new directions have been developed. So, in the 1960s, a new direction appeared at the plant - fiberglass shipbuilding. The first examples of such vessels were the Nadezhda catchers for the Vostok fishing base, hydrographic vessels of the Kaira type, Bekas workboats, and light vessels of all domestic deep-sea vehicles for exploring the World Ocean.
5. Boat of project LM 4-87.
In 1965, the enterprise, as a pilot production facility, was transferred to the Central Research Institute of Shipbuilding Technology, and its historical name "Pella" was returned to it - the Leningrad Shipyard "Pella".
Since the 70s, with the direct participation of the Central Scientific Research Institute of Customs Union, the production of technological equipment for the shipbuilding industry has been mastered: painting machines, pipe bending machines, thermal metal cutting machines.
In 1992, the enterprise was privatized and became an open joint-stock company "Leningrad Shipbuilding Plant "Pella" (since 06/21/1996 - Open Joint-Stock Company "Leningrad Shipbuilding Plant "Pella").
In 2012, construction began on a new site in the village of Saperny, thanks to which it became possible to build ships and vessels with greater length and draft and with more convenient launching.
6. New shipbuilding complex "Pella".
In 2016, the company was leased the property of the Feodosia shipbuilding plant "More" (Crimea).
Today, Pella is a joint-stock company, which includes 8 subsidiaries and affiliates, owning a territory of 33 hectares and assets sufficient to conduct a successful business.
First site (old)
The construction of the order begins not only with sheet metal, but also with the receipt of the remaining necessary equipment for the future vessel/ship at the warehouse.
7. PALFINGER PC 2300 crane stored in a warehouse for a future tug. 
Then, in the hull assembly shop, the assembly of the structures of the future vessel begins.
8. Hull assembly shop. Here the assembly of large structures of the future vessel takes place.
9. Inside the body assembly shop. 
10. Factory administration building. Also inside there is a dining room and a first-aid post with a massage room. Behind there is a whole network of metalworking and machine tool assembly workshops. 
After the large structure is assembled, it is transported to the workshop near the outfitting embankment. Finished blocks are transported from the hull assembly shop to the boathouse, where the finished hull is assembled from the blocks.
After the ship's hull is completed, it begins to be equipped with equipment and painted.
11. Project 16609 tug 
The vessel is launched using trolleys and a transborder.
12. Construction of a tugboat of project PE-65. The transborder rails are visible on the left. 
Then the tug, in a high degree of readiness, is brought out on slipway trolleys to the site and lowered into the water along an inclined slipway.
13. Transborder rails. It is through them that the water order is launched. 
14. The raid tug "Volchok" at the outfitting embankment of the enterprise. Its construction is being carried out for the Navy. 
15. Road tug "Volchok" and slipway workshop. 
16. Random guests. 
On the existing territory of the plant there are restrictions on the draft of ships under construction - no more than 3.5-4 m due to the rapids on the Neva fairway. Therefore, now the plant has the ability to build technical fleet vessels: tugs, pilot boats and other special vessels, with a draft of no more than 4 m and a length of up to 50 m in the amount of 12 - 15 units. in year. Of these, the plant annually produces at least 5 - 9 vessels according to government orders from various federal departments.
17. Mast of the future tug. 
Second site (new)
Construction of the new site began on July 16, 2012 in the village of Saperny, Leningrad Region, on the site between the St. Petersburg - Otradnoe road and the Neva River embankment.
On a new section of the river. There are no restrictions on rapids on the Neva, so Pella plans to organize serial construction and launching there of up to 10 sea vessels per year, up to 100 m long, up to 22 m wide, with a draft of up to 8 m. Including:
- special vessels of the technical fleet: high-power tugs with reinforced ice class, hydrographic and other special vessels, including for ensuring the operation of infrastructure facilities of the Northern Sea Route;
- loans for the fishing fleet (vessels for longline fishing for ground fish, mid-depth trawlers, research vessels for industry institutes of the Federal Fisheries Agency), which must be built in Russia in pursuance of paragraphs 1b and 2c of the List of Instructions of the President of the Russian Federation on the development of the fishery complex dated March 21, 2013. No. Pr-613;
- ships for the Russian Navy.
At the new site of the Pella shipbuilding enterprise, the construction of ships is carried out in almost the same way as at the old one. It all starts with the delivery of sheet metal and equipment to the warehouse.
19. Multi-ton sheets of metal are moved around the hull processing shop using several overhead magnetic cranes. 
20. Rolled sheets awaiting processing 
After the metal has arrived at the enterprise, work begins with it in the body-processing shop.
21. Hull processing shop. 
Metal sheets pass through dozens of different machines, after working with which an ordinary sheet turns into a part of a future vessel/ship.
22. Hydraulic press SMT. 
With the help of machines located in the body-processing shop, a sheet of metal can be given almost any shape.
23. Boscert hydraulic press brake. 
24. Sheet bending machine. 
25. Warehouse on a new site. 
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After the sheet metal has turned into a part of the future vessel, it is moved to the slipway shop...
27. Slipway workshop of the new site of the Pella shipyard. 
Where it will be put in the right place.
28. Construction of the experimental vessel of project 11982 "Ilmen". 
And gradually the outlines of the future vessel will begin to appear.
29. Section of the future oceanographic vessel. 
30. Hull work. 
After work on the hull is completed, the next stage begins - launching.
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Let's move on to the launch pad.
32. Shipyard "Pella" 
The vessel is launched using launching trolleys, on which the vessel/ship is removed from the slipway and transported to the transborder, after which it is launched.
33. Descent trolley. 
34. Transborder. 
35. The length of the transborder is 400 meters. 
On July 29, 2016, at the Pella shipyard, a launching ceremony was held for the experimental research vessel Ladoga (serial number 150) of Project 11982, which is being built for the Russian Navy.
34. Research vessel.
The length of the vessel is 63.8 m, width - 10.8 m, maximum draft - 3.8 m, speed - 12 knots, cruising range - 1 thousand miles, autonomy - 20 days, crew - 16 people, expedition members - 20 Human.
An interview with the deputy director of the Pella enterprise will be published on our portal in the near future. The interview will tell in detail about the work of the enterprise, orders, achievements, prospects and problems.
Stay tuned!
And boats, ZAO Polinom, a manufacturer of products made from polymer materials, as well as its subsidiary, OAO Pella-Mash, a manufacturer of industrial equipment.
Story
In the 30s of the 20th century, a trailer plant of the Ministry of Forestry Industry was built on this territory. After the Great Patriotic War, the plant was restored and renamed Leningrad Mechanical Plant No. 4.
Achievements
The Pella plant became the first Russian shipbuilding enterprise to be invited as a participant to the international exhibition of small-tonnage shipbuilding Tug & Salvage Convention and Exhibition in Rotterdam.
Products
One of the types of ships being built en masse at the plant’s shipyards are Project 90600 tugs.
In 2006, two such modern azimuthal-type tugboats were built - “Beluga” and “Navaga”, which became the beginning of the port fleet of the “Ust-Luga company”.
In May 2012, construction began on a series of resource-saving fishing vessels of Project PL-475. Its prototype is the Norwegian longline fishing vessel of the GIER-II type. The peculiarity of a longline fishing vessel is that it does not throw out nets, which crush and spoil a lot of fish, but throws out 50 thousand special hooks at a time. The length of the vessel is 47.5 meters, width - 12 meters, draft 5 meters, refrigerated hold volume - 500 cubic meters. The propulsion power of the vessel is 1.6 thousand horsepower. Completion of construction of the first vessel of the series is scheduled for the end of 2012. In the future, it is planned to produce 2-3 vessels of this project per year. It is expected that longline fishing vessels will be able to operate effectively not only in the Barents Sea, but also in other basins.
In 2013, the first patrol boat of Project 03160 “Raptor” was built at the plant. The Raptor patrol boat was designed with the participation of the developer of the original project - the company Dockstavarvet.
On December 24, 2015, the first two in a series of small missile ships of Project 22800 “Karakurt” were laid down - “Hurricane” and “Typhoon” - the main weapons of which are “Caliber” cruise missiles.
On December 24, 2016, the Chief of the Main Staff of the Navy, Vice Admiral Andrei Volozhinsky, announced that the Pella plant will build 18 small missile ships of the new generation of project 22800 "Karakurt" for the Russian Navy until 2022.
Prospects
In 2011, the enterprise, in agreement with regional authorities, purchased a plot of land with an area of about 20 hectares on the banks of the Neva River in the city of Otradnoye, Kirov District, Leningrad Region - 3 km downstream from the existing Pella site.
There are no restrictions on rapids on the new section of the Neva River, so Pella plans to organize serial construction and launching there of up to 10 sea vessels per year, up to 100 m long, up to 22 m wide, with a draft of up to 6 m.
Including:
- special vessels of the technical fleet: high-power tugs with reinforced ice class, hydrographic and other special vessels, including for ensuring the operation of infrastructure facilities of the Northern Sea Route;
- vessels of the fishing fleet (vessels for longline fishing of ground fish, mid-water trawlers, research vessels for industry institutes of the Federal Agency for Fisheries)
The new complex will create 1,500 new jobs in the region. The production volume of sea vessels, taking into account the capacity of the new plant complex, will amount to 12 billion rubles per year. A portfolio of orders for the construction in 2014-2016 of the first series of technical and fishing fleet vessels (up to 80 m or more in length) has been formed and agreed upon with the Customers.
The planned commissioning of production workshops at the new site is the 4th quarter of 2014, reaching the design capacity of the complex is the beginning of 2018. The production of sea vessels should increase annually, and accordingly from 2015 will be 2-4-6-8 units. The estimated annual load of the new complex will ultimately amount to 8 - 10 billion rubles. products per year, which will amount to up to 20% of the total volume of vessels for similar purposes on the Russian market.
On February 10, 2014, Terraline GmbH, a subsidiary of the Hamburg plant, acquired the Hamburg shipyard Sietas.
In 2015-2016, information appeared in the press that the company intends to invest in the modernization of the Feodosia shipbuilding plant “More”, which will be involved in the construction of ships and boats of the same series as Pella as part of the state defense order. According to other information, Pella claimed to transfer the plant’s property to its subsidiary legal entity, which caused a sharp negative reaction from the staff of the Feodosia enterprise and some deputies of the State Council of the Republic of Crimea.
Notes
- Monuments of history and culture (objects of cultural heritage) of the peoples of the Russian Federation, kulturnoe-nasledie.ru (Retrieved March 20, 2012)
- “Pella” is taking a step towards Europe, portnews.ru (Retrieved October 17, 2010)
- That is, the screws are located on a column that rotates around a vertical axis. Such vessels do not need a rudder, they have a higher thrust-to-weight ratio, and they can moor without a tug.
The expedition to the enterprises of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region has taken place! From November 21 to 26, I visited a dozen different enterprises in the Northern capital and its environs, where I was lucky enough not only to make photo reports, but also to interview them. The first enterprise that I inspected was the Leningrad shipyard "Pella", located in the city of Otradnoye. This is what we will talk about today.
The main products of the Pella plant are new generation tugs, modern, comfortable and reliable, because they work successfully in all major ports and naval bases of Russia. Individual specimens can be found abroad: in Latvia, Lithuania, even in Italy.
Almost every one of my Severodvinsk reports features a tugboat manufactured by Pella. The tugboats of the Northern Fleet "Viktor Tikhonov" and "Anatoly Tarasov", as well as the tugboat of the Severodvinsk enterprise "Zvezdochka" "Alexander Zryachev" are real "workhorses" and perform the most difficult tasks, including the removal of ships under construction and repair from the waters of the enterprises "Zvezdochka" ", "Sevmash" and the Belomorsk naval base.
The company is located on two sites - old and new. The old one is located on the territory of the former Pellina Palace, where the plant management, the engineering division "Pella-Mash" and "Pella-Fiord" (fiberglass shipbuilding) are located. The new site is located on the border of the city and the region in the village of Sapernoye.
The old site is located on the territory of the former Pellinsky Palace, built under Catherine II. Today, all that remains of the palace, dismantled to its foundations by order of Paul I, is the carriage stable building and the outbuilding of the Postal Station.
4. Carriage stable building and outbuilding of the Postal Station of the Pellina Palace complex.
In the 30s of the twentieth century, a trailer plant of the USSR Ministry of Forestry Industry was built on this territory, and in 1950 shipbuilding production was organized there, after which the main products of the plant became tugboats, speedboats, pilot boats and other small vessels.
In 1957, the enterprise was renamed the Leningrad Ship Mechanical Plant. The enterprise's capacity has grown over time, and new directions have been developed. Thus, in the 1960s, a new direction, fiberglass shipbuilding, appeared at the plant. The first examples of such vessels were the Nadezhda catchers for the Vostok fishing base, hydrographic vessels of the Kaira type, Bekas workboats, and light vessels of all domestic deep-sea vehicles for exploring the World Ocean.
5. Boat of project LM 4-87.
In 1965, the enterprise, as a pilot production facility, was transferred to the Central Research Institute of Shipbuilding Technology, and its historical name "Pella" was returned to it - the Leningrad Shipyard "Pella".
Since the 70s, with the direct participation of the Central Scientific Research Institute of Customs Union, the production of technological equipment for the shipbuilding industry has been mastered: painting machines, pipe bending machines, thermal metal cutting machines.
In 1992, the enterprise was privatized and became an open joint-stock company "Leningrad Shipbuilding Plant "Pella" (since 06/21/1996 - Open Joint-Stock Company "Leningrad Shipbuilding Plant "Pella").
In 2012, construction began on a new site in the village of Saperny, thanks to which it became possible to build ships and vessels with greater length and draft and with more convenient launching.
6. New shipbuilding complex "Pella".
In 2016, the company was leased the property of the Feodosia shipbuilding plant "More" (Crimea).
Today, Pella is a joint-stock company, which includes 8 subsidiaries and affiliates, owning a territory of 33 hectares and assets sufficient to conduct a successful business.
First site (old)
The construction of the order begins not only with sheet metal, but also with the receipt of the remaining necessary equipment for the future vessel/ship at the warehouse.
7. PALFINGER PC 2300 crane stored in a warehouse for a future tug.
Then, in the hull assembly shop, the assembly of the structures of the future vessel begins.
8. Hull assembly shop. Here the assembly of large structures of the future vessel takes place.
9. Inside the body assembly shop.
10. Factory administration building. Also inside there is a dining room and a first-aid post with a massage room. Behind there is a whole network of metalworking and machine tool assembly workshops.
After the large structure is assembled, it is transported to the workshop near the outfitting embankment. Finished blocks are transported from the hull assembly shop to the boathouse, where the finished hull is assembled from the blocks.
After the ship's hull is completed, it begins to be equipped with equipment and painted.
11. Project 16609 tug
The vessel is launched using trolleys and a transborder.
12. Construction of a tugboat of project PE65. The transborder rails are visible on the left.
Then the tug, in a high degree of readiness, is brought out on slipway trolleys to the site and lowered into the water along an inclined slipway.
13. Transborder rails. It is through them that the water order is launched.
14. The raid tug "Volchok" at the outfitting embankment of the enterprise. Its construction is being carried out for the Navy.
15. Road tug "Volchok" and slipway workshop.
16. Random guests.
On the existing territory of the plant, there are restrictions on the draft of ships under construction of no more than 3.54 m due to the rapids on the Neva fairway. Therefore, now the plant has the ability to build technical fleet vessels: tugs, pilot boats and other special vessels, with a draft of no more than 4 m and a length of up to 50 m in the amount of 12 - 15 units. in year. Of these, the plant annually produces at least 5–9 vessels according to government orders from various federal departments.
17. Mast of the future tug.
Second site (new)
Construction of the new site began on July 16, 2012 in the village of Saperny, Leningrad Region, on the site between the St. Petersburg Otradnoe road and the Neva River embankment.
On a new section of the river. There are no restrictions on rapids on the Neva, so Pella plans to organize serial construction and launching there of up to 10 sea vessels per year, up to 100 m long, up to 22 m wide, with a draft of up to 8 m. Including:
special vessels of the technical fleet: high-power tugs with reinforced ice class, hydrographic and other special vessels, including for ensuring the operation of infrastructure facilities of the Northern Sea Route;
loans for the fishing fleet (vessels for longline fishing for ground fish, mid-depth trawlers, scientific research vessels for industry institutes of the Federal Agency for Fisheries), which must be built in Russia in pursuance of paragraphs 1b and 2c of the List of Instructions of the President of the Russian Federation on the development of the fishery complex dated March 21, 2013. No. Pr613;
ships for the Russian Navy.
18.Administrative building on the territory of the new site.
At the new site of the Pella shipbuilding enterprise, the construction of ships is carried out in almost the same way as at the old one. It all starts with the delivery of sheet metal and equipment to the warehouse.
19. Multi-ton sheets of metal are moved around the hull processing shop using several overhead magnetic cranes.
20. Rolled sheets awaiting processing
After the metal has arrived at the enterprise, work begins with it in the body-processing shop.
21. Hull processing shop.
Metal sheets pass through dozens of different machines, after working with which an ordinary sheet turns into a part of a future vessel/ship.
22. Hydraulic press SMT.
With the help of machines located in the body-processing shop, a sheet of metal can be given almost any shape.
23. Boscert hydraulic press brake.
24. Sheet bending machine.
The length of the vessel is 63.8 m, width - 10.8 m, maximum draft - 3.8 m, speed - 12 knots, cruising range - 1 thousand miles, autonomy - 20 days, crew - 16 people, expedition members - 20 Human.
An interview with the deputy director of the Pella enterprise will be published on our portal in the near future. The interview will tell in detail about the work of the enterprise, orders, achievements, prospects and problems.