How small construction orders preserve Russian shipyard skills

How can Russian yards still produce warships despite reduced capacity?

Even a slow continuing flow of construction preserves skills; ending costly nuclear surface-ship work could also free resources for other vessels.

Continuous work has preserved a limited Russian warship-building capability even at a very slow production rate. Repeated construction keeps skills and production activity alive when a much larger programme is unaffordable. The scale remains reduced, so this continuity does not imply that the old production capacity survives. Giving up further work on large nuclear Kirov-class surface ships could also release resources for other projects.