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We are glad to welcome you on the site of the Design Office for Ship Design “Vympel” that marked by celebration of its 80-years anniversary in 2010. During this time more than 6500 ships and floating engineering installations were built by projects of the DO “Vympel”. The DO “Vympel” is in one of the largest shipbuilding centres of the Russia – the Nizhny Novgorod town – and specialized in design and engineering service of the construction of ships of various class and purpose, namely:

tankers for carriage of oil, oil products and chemicals;

multi-purpose dray cargo transport ships;

railway and car/passenger ferries;

floating facilities for shelf development;

passenger ships and air-cushion vessels;

technical service ships;

auxiliary and special-purpose vessels for the Navy;

nuclear technology maintenance vessels;

research vessels;

bridge-ferrying facilities for the demands of the RF Ministry of Defence and floating bridges.

DO “Vympel”’ specialists, in their work, apply widely current technologies of computer three-dimensional design on the basis of computer-aided design system «AVEVA Marine», providing parallel development of a three-dimensional model of ship in real time in all marine specializations.

The OJSC DO “Vympel” – is really a sole design organization having available model testing station with 50m length basin, fitted with up-to-date measuring system and service programs for carrying out hydrodynamic tests of self-propelled and non-propelled ship models and processing results in the experiment time.

Integrating the best design strength and methods the DO “Vympel” takes an active part in various large-scale national and foreign projects..

Director General - VYACHESLAV V. SHATALOV

The Nizhny Novgorod Design Office «Vympel» was founded in 1927 on the basis of a branch of Leningrad Maritime Shipbuilding Bureau. The status of a self-sufficient organization, named as the «State Office of River and Sea Ships Design”, briefly as the «Rechsudoproekt», was obtained by the Office in 1930.

For a period of 80 years of activity the DO «Vympel», responding effectively and with initiative to the demands of the times, is a direct participant of principal revolutionary technical changes in the development of national shipbuilding.

In 1930s, by the DO’s projects there was built up, practically from the start, river fleet of the country: towing steamships and barges, cargo-passenger motor ships and dray cargo motor vessels. Provision was made for transition from wooden shipbuilding to welded metallic shipbuilding, dieselization of the fleet, transition from paddle wheels to propellers. In1939, the design office was renamed as the «Central Design Bureau No. 51»

In 1940s, in conditions of maximum realization of the DO’s resources, there were created series of ships and vessels of defence purpose: large and small submarine hunting ships, landing craft and barges, floating batteries, motor boats, mine-sweepers and hospital vessels, and many other craft.

In 1950-1960s, by projects of the DO “Vympel”, there were built large tonnage transport ships for river-sea navigation and shallow-draught sea-going vessels; it was created a new automatized towing fleet and there were built river and sea railway ferries. For the first time in shipbuilding there were designed sea-going shallow-draught dry cargo ships and tankers with double sides, providing free transit of cargos from river estuaries ports. Specialization of wiping vessels and crane transport/mounting ships was also assimilated.. There were started acivities on introduction of remote control means and integrated control of ships, realized measures for improving technology and applying sectional method of ship building. In 1966 the Central Design Bureau No. 51 was renamed as the Central Design Office “Volgobaltsudoproyekt”, and in 1972 as “Vympel”.

In 1970-1980s, it was ensured the development of really new ships in the field of shipbuilding – floating electric power plants «Severnoye Siyanie» to solve energetic problems of the Extreme North. There were developed unique principally new high-speed sidewall air-cushion vessels, nuclear technology maintenance ships, mobile bridge-ferrying facilities for engineering troops of the army. It was started the work on introduction of ship integrated automation systems, computation of the design work. The quality control system has been applied.

For merit bonus for the cause of the national fleet development the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, by their decree dated 25.10.1977, decorated the DO “Vympel” with the Order of the Red Banner. The DO’s studies in the field of development of special bridge-ferrying facilities were marked off with:

-The Lenin Prize of the USSR, 1963 (A.A.Fadeev, Ch. Project Designer), I.A.Dychko (ass. Ch. Project Designer);

- The USSR State Prize in the field of science and engineering, 1987 (V.F.Trefilov, Ch. Project Designer; V.S.Rosanov, Head of Division; M.Z.Zlotnik, Leading Specialist);

- The USSR State Prize, 1951, marking the development of the project of a ferry for the strategic important Amur ferrying system (K.P.Bubnov and A.S.Rachkov Ch. Project Designers).

- The USSR Council of Ministers in the field of construction, 1974, marking a package of studies on the development of the of “Sakhalin” ferry project and the construction of Vanino-Kolms ferrying system (V.A.Evstifeev, Head of the DO, Y.P.Volkov, Ch. Project Designer)

Package of the DO’s studies for development, introduction and application of floating electric power plants “Severnoye Siyaniye) was marked with the USSR State Prize in the field of science and engineering,1975 (Y.V.Leukhin, Head of the DO; A.I.Golovin and H.I.Tsygankov, Ch. Project Designers). Package of studies for development a nuclear technology maintenance vessel was marked with the RF Government Prize in the field of science and engineering, 2004 (V.V.Shatalov, Head of the DO; V.B.Belyanichev, Ch. Project Designer)

In 1990s, the DO was characterized by large number of subjects-matters of the work, a package of projects in different design stages, provision of the construction of ships simultaneously at many shipyards. The development of new ships was carried out in close contact with research institutes of the industry, customers, shipping companies and makers of shipboard equipment. There were actively used its proper experimental divisions for operative investigation and study of sea-going and manoeuvring qualities of the designed ships on the basis of towed and self-propelled models in testing basin and in open water areas, as well as strength, vibration, acoustic and other tests of real vessels. It was made principal engineering refit of the DO and transition to information technologies of the design and production management, computer-aided design systems AutoCAD, CAD/CAM TRIBON have being implemented.

During the first ten years of XXI century it was realized, in essence, new strategic directions of the activity, forming the most significant competitive advantages of the DO:

- mastering of new products and coming into international engineering shipbuilding market;

- design of ships and craft to the rules and regulations of foreign classification societies;

- full scale introduction of up-to-date information technologies for designing ships of wide range, including progressive 3D design system “AVEVA Marine”. It was established a large design-engineering backlog for the perspective. It has being done an essential engineering refit of the DO, modernization of its experimental base.

According to the DO “Vympel” projects, new generations of war ships and auxiliary vessels of the Navy, transport and technological facilities for shelf reclamation, universal sea-going dry cargo and special purpose vessels, sea-going ships of tanker fleet, ecology monitoring vessels, floating complex of nuclear technology maintenance vessels are in developement.

To raise competitive capacity and due to the trend in export activity, the new projects are developed on the basis of advanced design solutions providing economical efficiency, reliability and safety of the ships operation, ecological cleanness and modern comforts for their crews.

In our days, the DO «Vympel» has a solid basis, long order book and is positioned in the Russian Federation as an universal design organization – one of the leading offices for developing civil ships of various class and purpose and auxiliary vessels for the Navy.

DO "Vympel" presentation (pdf)

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1. 15 декабря 2011 года на ОАО «Дальневосточный завод «Звезда» состоялась торжественная церемония закладки танкера пр. 00211 дедвейтом 3100 тонн для ЗАО «Роснефтефлот», спроектированного ОАО КБ «Вымпел».

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2. 16 декабря 2011 года на ОАО «Зеленодольский судостроительный завод им. А.М. Горького» подписан приемный акт сдачи морского буксира пр. 745мб разработки ОАО КБ «Вымпел».

Results of OJSC "DO "Vympel" production activity in July - December 2010

Results of OJSC "DO "Vympel" production activity in January - May 2010

Results of OJSC "DO "Vympel" production activity in October - December 2009

Results of OJSC DO “Vympel” production activity in January - September 2009

Results of OJSC DO “Vympel” activities in year 2008

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