Project 563

Kherson Shipyard was established in 1951 as the main shipyard of commercial shipbuilding in the former Soviet Union and is now considered one of the leading shipbuilding and ship repair plant in Ukraine. During its half-century history of the factory gained a reputation as a reliable partner.

Over the course of the past century more than 1000 vessels of various types and purposes were built at the yard: destroyers, capital ships, submarines, cruisers, ice-breakers, tugs, whaling factory vessels, dry-cargo ships, research vessels, missile tender ships, submarine tender ships, floating workshops, RORO vessels, antisubmarine cruisers, supertrawlers - fish carriers, sea bottom research vessels, aircraft carriers, tankers as well as tens of thousands of machinery, mechanisms, boilers, equipment of widely differing purposes.