On the 7th of May, the eve of the Victory Day, Rubin Design Bureau, an affiliate of the United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC), observed a minute of silence in tribute to the memory of those who fought on the frontline and worked in the rear during the Great Patriotic War.

In the early days of the war, all male employees of CDB-18 (that was the name of Rubin Design Bureau in 1940s) irrespective of their age and health submitted applications to join the militia of the City of Leningrad. However, engineers were required to support operations of the submarine force and therefore only a handful of them were conscripted. Around a hundred persons were transferred to factories of Leningrad and the rest were evacuated to work in the city of Gorkiy (now Nizhniy Novgorod). Engineers provided technical support to the yards and the Navy.

The entire submarine force of the Soviet Union that operated during the Great Patriotic War had been created solely by CDB-18. Around 200 submarines had been constructed during the three pre-war five-year plans upon designs of CDB-18 and another 54 were commissioned in the course of the war. The staff of CDB-18 was awarded the Stalin Prize in 1943 for development of a new-type submarine Type L XIII-38 series (mine-laying submarine). The honorees transferred this money award for needs of the Red Army. In 1944, CDB-18 was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labour for development of the submarines that successfully fought against the Nazi.

In the spring of 1945, CDB-18 returned to Leningrad from evacuation.

Eleven employees of the Bureau died a death of the braves on the battlefields of the Great Patriotic War and a memorial plaque was installed in the Bureau's facility in their memory. Today the management and personnel of the Bureau brought flowers to the plaque.