Mr.WUKA54, i have no intention at this forum deal with politics, but what i wrote, it is a fact and it has nothing to do with propaganda, which, however, in your case i'm not sure. I wrote her according to what i know, what i saw and what i believe. Keep your opinion, i will not take it. Well, i would not have finally ended.

Dear Mr Asnyk .
Your opinion looks like a succes of the soviet propaganda. The nick Asnyk suggests Polish roots ...
I am really confused but I respect oposite ( to my )
opinions.

Mr. WUKA54, the thing is like this:
1 / to such a large merchant navy would require at least 10x more shipyards
2 / within the so-called Comecon built ships for the Soviet satellite states shipyards and not gratis
3 / enter shipbuilding abroad is perhaps nothing abnormal
4 / shipyards had orders
5 / people to have jobs
6 / in the context of the "cold war" in the USSR shipyards were busy building warships
7 / is necessary to keep a cool head, to look at it realistically and not believe babbles journalists. And this is done in other countries. And "we know today" - i believe not. Examples would be enough, but in this "debate" is not. After twenty-five years at sea, i learned to look at things a detached view, without unnecessary emotions. You do not agree with me, of course, that politics played a role, but at the time, everywhere and actually have. Farther on this topic has not intend to return.

There were several shipyards in the USSR that built plenty of ships for their own country. As there were yards at Leningrad/ St. Petersburg (Admiral, Leningrad or Zhdanov), yards at Vyborg, Klaypeda and Kaliningrad in the Baltic, Gorkiy, Kerch (Zaliv), Kiev, Krasnoyarsk, Navashino,..., last not least Nikolaev with big shipyards (Chernomorskiy, Nosenko, Okean or 61 Kommunar)and unforgetable the big Yard at Kherson, which built beautyful classical general cargo vessels.
Cheers, Frafo

Amazing!The bigest country in the world, UdSSR (nowadays called Russian Federation ) was not able to
create own , seagoing vessels ( except some coasters
like Amur , Ladoga or Sormovskiy ). Any way they performed The Greatest VIRUAL Space Flight with
Yurij Gagarin as a Cosmonaut-Pilot.
All sovjet merchant fleet was in 95 % built in
Former comunist countries : Poland ( three shipbuilding
And 2 shipsrepair Yards were affected with free of charge works for them ) , East Germany ( 2 shipyards ),
Bulgaria , Romania , Hungary ( YES , It is not mistake)
Tschechoslovakia ( nowadays Slovak Republic - Komarno
Shipyard ). Another story is how many vessels was
built for the UdSSR in Finland and also in Yugoslavia.
Today we know : they (Russians ) are not able to create anything good. Buying everything abroath, including weapons for own army.

One of 31 ships type VI. 18 built for USSR as Vyborg type. Other info here: http://maritime-connector.com/ship/vysokogorsk-6707806/

Nice Picture