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World-class sands of completed orders allowed it to enter the
global market more than 25 years ago. Propellers
New Russian vessels must be equipped with mod- made by Zvyozdochka are installed on hundreds
ern equipment manufactured in Russia. In the Arctic of ships around the world. The export supply has
with its complex ice conditions, it is particularly im- formed high international requirements to quality
portant for ships to be equipped with ice-reinforced and timeline. The experience of working with inter-
propellers and propulsion systems. To get such sys- national partners required adherence to advanced
tems, ship designers mostly choose equipment by for- production standards. In total, over the entire peri-
eign companies, but this choice entails a number of od of its operation, Zvyozdochka has produced more
problems relating to sanctions, currency exchange than 23,000 propellers for Russian and foreign cus-
rate, difficulties with purchase of spare parts, high tomers.
cost of service, COVID-19 pandemic-induced restric-
tions on hiring international specialists. Innovation and reliability
The use of domestically produced components
in ship projects avoids dependence on imports. Center of Propulsion Systems (CPS) was estab-
Constantly expanding its line of civil products, lished as a part of Zvyozdochka in 2010, as a divi-
Shiprepairing Center “Zvyozdochka” stands as a sion specializing in design, production and mainte-
worthy alternative to foreign manufacturers. nance of propulsion systems and active control units.
The company has been designing and manufac- A workshop was built in 2016 for the assembly and
turing propellers for more than 50 years. Its experi- testing of bow thrusters (BT) and azimuth thrusters
ence, availability of modern technologies and thou- (AT). Now in it`s second phase, the workshop will
support the production of other types of thrusters.
The Center operates in accordance with the best in-
Накопленный опыт, ternational standards. Its quality management sys-
tem is accredited by DNV GL.
современные технологии и The core activity of CPS is design and manu-
тысячи реализованных заказов facture of Arctic ice-reinforced propulsion sys-
SOZVEZDYE #36 позволили предприятию tems (ice class up to Icebreaker 9). Thanks to the
high level of competence and extensive experi-
более 25 лет назад выйти на ence of its team, CPS is entrusted with some of
the most complex and responsible tasks. Its en-
инновации мировой рынок gineers are currently developing a project for a
innovations Its experience, availability propulsive consisting of four shaft lines for the
of modern technologies and icebreaker project 10510 “Leader”, which will be
thousands of completed orders the most powerful Arctic vessel ever built. It is
also worth noting that Zvyozdochka-made pro-
allowed it to enter the global pellers are installed on the majority of Russian
16 market more than 25 years ago and Soviet icebreakers, and not so long ago they
were installed on tankers built to transport liq-