title: Kronstadt Marine Plant
text: # Kronstadt Marine Plant
  
  The Kronstadt Marine Plant (Russian: Кронштадтский морской завод), originally established 16 March [O.S. 4 March] 1858 as 'Parokhodnyi mekhanicheskii z-d goroda Kronshtadta' (Russian: Пароходный завод), is a shipbuilding and repair center. It became the main repair center for the Baltic Fleet around 1900. By 1914 there were two dry docks, but no building slips. Operational 1917–1920; one of three military plants in the 1930s that produced munitions and torpedoes; arms parts and munitions during wartime.
  
  Currently part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation.
  
  