Promoting high standards at the Russian Maritime Register

摘要

Times are changing. For the shipbuilding industry of the former Soviet Union, the 1970s were prosperous. Many technically interesting vessels of different types were built to Russian Maritime Register (RS) class, among them such unique designs as nuclear icebreakers, research ships, manned submersibles and diving systems, and space-exploration support vessels. The result of the USSR dissolution was dramatic for the Soviet shipbuilding industry: the national fleet was divided among new states and privatised.