Founded in 1932, the Amur shipbuilding plant became the most important Russian naval yard in the Far East. Its later record included 36 surface warships and 97 submarines, of which 56 were nuclear-powered and 41 conventional. The submarine output included Delta-class ballistic-missile boats, Echo-class cruise-missile boats, and Akula-class attack boats. A workforce of roughly 15,000 made Amur a major industrial base for the Pacific Fleet. Boris Yeltsin announced in 1992 that the yard would stop building nuclear submarines. Nuclear-submarine work may return to Amur because geographic redundancy gives a navy strategic and industrial depth.
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The Amur yard as Russia's Far Eastern shipbuilding base
The Amur plant became essential industrial depth for the Pacific Fleet and later produced large numbers of nuclear and conventional submarines.