In the beginning of this year INA Russia Today, JSC USC and Russian Historical Society started the new Sea Power internet project. The big information series is timed to the 325th anniversary of the Russian Navy, which was launched on October 30, 1696, when the Boyar Duma, on Peter the Great’s insistence, decreed: «There must be seagoing ships!» According to Alexey Rakhmanov, the head of the United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC), “since then the Navy has played a major role in the development of the Russian state. Its political and military conquests have made our country a great maritime state and one of the most powerful nations worldwide.  It is symbolic that this year we also celebrate the 300th anniversary of the victory in the Great Northern War and the Nystadt Peace Treaty, which established Russia as an empire”...

In July, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin visited the Amur Shipbuilding Plant, met with its management and employees...

The Russian Empire existed for nearly two hundred years. Quite a long time, so it would hardly be appropriate to consider the acceptance of the title of emperor by Peter the Great in the fall of 1721 a fad. Let us examine the events in the life of the Russian tsar that led him to that decision...

On Navy Day on July 25, 2021, Vladimir Putin took part in the launching ceremony for the large freezing fishing trawler Mekhanik Sizov, built at the Admiralty Shipyard. The President watched the launching ceremony from a boat on the way from Kronstadt to St. Petersburg during the Main Naval Parade...

Spring and summer of 2021 will be remembered by numerous forums where USC and its affiliated companies were represented. Of course, the «third wave» of the pandemic made its adjustments, but the most important meetings and discussions still took place...

From Alexey Rakhmanov’s speech at the Russia-Finland business dialogue at St. Petersburg International Economic Forum...

On June 4, the panel discussion «Time to erase boundaries in the ocean: on the way to international integration projects» was held within the business program of St. Petersburg International Economic Forum...

Nowadays the United Shipbuilding Corporation increasingly focuses on the civil segment, developing vessels of all types using the most advanced technologies...

This summer the United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) team took part in the All-Russian contest of scientific and technological projects Major Challenges-2021, which was held in the Sirius Educational Center in Sochi...

The United Shipbuilding Corporation brings shipboard electric installation works in Russia to new quality stage by supporting the idea of creating the USC–EMR production specialization center

The Main Naval Parade is one of the most important summer events in St. Petersburg and Kronstadt. The parade formation of the Baltic and Neva warships always arouse a great interest. The tradition of naval parades goes back centuries and came to us from abroad

The USC contest in design and artistic aesthetics of ships and vessels is of great importance for the USC future. The Company management discussed and evaluated contestants’ works, and Alexey Rakhmanov, USC Head, showed the best of them to Russian President Vladimir Putin at a personal meeting. The Corporation is interested in new ideas and especially in young and talented people

The Day of the Hermitage Cat is celebrated on an increasingly wider scale every year in St. Petersburg. The festive day is based on a legend that the first cat was brought to the city by Peter the Great. Later, in 1745, his daughter Empress Elisabeth issued a decree ordering cats from Kazan to be brought to the capital city in order to rid the Winter Palace of mice and rats. But was it really so?