In 124 Years of Work, Rubin Has Ensured Creation of 1072 Submarines
Rubin Design Bureau (an affiliate of the United Shipbuilding Corporation) celebrates 124 years of its work on 22 December 2024. More than a hundred of years of professional designing have ensured construction of 1072 submarines including 956 ones that have been built for the USSR and the Russian Navy.
Rubin is providing full life-cycle support for submarines and other marine objects. The Bureau is undertaking research and development, elaborating design documents for construction, repair and modernization.
Rubin is developing and manufacturing large displacement uncrewed underwater vehicles (LDUUVs) for conducting research at the depths of the World Ocean up to 12 km water depth. To cater for this, state-of-the-art engineering solutions including those in the field of electronics and structural materials have been developed and continue being developed. A number of innovations were tested on uncrewed vehicle Vityaz-D that accomplished a first-in-the-world autonomous mission in the Mariana trench on 9 May 2020.
The first Russian design unit oriented for underwater shipbuilding was established on 22 December 1900 under the name of Submarine Construction Commission. It took Submarine Construction Commission three years to successfully complete construction and trials of the first combat submarine Delfin of the Russian Navy by 1903.
The entire USSR and Russian nuclear submarine fleet armed with ballistic missiles has been built under the projects of Rubin Design Bureau. In 1950s Rubin initiated the employment of submarine-launched cruise missiles, providing support for construction of firstly nuclear and then conventional submarines armed with missile weapon. In 1960s the Bureau for the first time developed the design of a submarine with due consideration of requirements of the foreign Customer - the Republic of India. In late XX - early XXI century one of the most successful series of the world submarine fleet was realized under Rubin designs: 75 diesel-electric submarines were built to Projects 877 and 636.
Today Rubin is providing support for series construction of nuclear and conventional submarines of the fourth generation, undertaking work on the fifth generation and fulfilling contractual obligations towards the foreign customers.