Camera online Severodvinsk. City Shopping Center, Chesnokova Street (Arkhangelsk region).
Severodvinsk is located on the shore of the White Sea near the Nikolskoe mouth of the Northern Dvina River, 35 kilometers from Arkhangelsk.
In 1936, the Politburo of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks decided to build a shipbuilding plant. Construction of the plant and workers village were called one word - Sudostroy, in 1938 the village was given the status of a city and the new name - Molotovsk. In 1957, Molotovsk was renamed Severodvinsk.
Construction of the city and the plant was carried out at the expense of the free labor force of the Yagrinlag concentration camp, which existed from 1938 to 1953. Concentration camp inmates erected production buildings, port docks, dwellings for shipbuilders and sidewalks, roads and railroads, washed sand for draining swamps, and cleared dense taiga.
During the Great Patriotic War, Severodvinsk was a strategically important site - a port that received cargo from the Allies.
Throughout its history, Severodvinsk has been the largest shipbuilding center in the country. The country's main shipbuilding plant builds the latest nuclear submarines, carries out repairs and maintenance, as well as utilization of submarines and surface ships.
