About the Сompany

Dobrynya & Co. has been established in Sevastopol in 1991 by a group of shipbuilding engineers and specialists in the field of explosion works. In 1989-1990 this group organized (in frames of new cooperative business) scrapping of diesel submarines and auxiliary vessels of the Russian Black Sea and Northern Navy.

In close collaboration with scientists from the Kuibyshev Polytechnic Institute (Samara) and departments of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow), the latest innovative technologies were introduced for cutting of durable medium-ligated steels submarine hulls with cumulative charges of directed action. These technologies enabled to complete cutting of durable diesel submarine hulls into blocks weighing up to 100 tons within a few hours that increased labor productivity for such operations and reduced the cost of work tenfold in comparison with traditional gas cutting methods.

In ship repair field Dobrynya & Co. Ltd was the first private company in the CIS countries in arrangement of large ocean vessels repair with a deadweight up to 85,000 tons at the largest shipyards in Ukraine and the former USSR – the Black Sea Shipyard (Nikolaev), the 61 Communards Shipyard (Nikolaev), the Kherson Shipyard (Kherson).

In cooperation with scientists from Central Researches Institute for Marine Fleet (former Leningrad) and other scientific and specialized organizations in Russia and Ukraine, the Company's specialists have developed a unique technology for replacing afloat without dry-docking 100% of the longitudinal and part of the transverse bulkheads on two Pobeda-project Panamax-class tankers of JSC Novoship Group (Novorossiysk) that enabled to achieve unprecedented productivity in the world practice for replacement of steel structures in amount of up to 25.0 tons per day! For many years, the Company was among the top five largest ship repair and shipbuilding yards and companies in Ukraine in field of productivity volumes for repair and re-equipment of marine and ocean vessels with deadweight from 3,000 to 100,000 tons. Modern equipment from leading European manufacturers and effective management enabled the Company to win numerously the international tenders for repair and re-equipment of ships of such world-famous shipping companies as Novoship Group (Russia), Premuda Tankers (Italy), Kent Shipping (Türkiye), Russochart Shipping GmbH (Germany), Azov-Don Shipping Company (Russia), Belomor-Onega Shipping Company (Russia), Danube Shipping Company (Ukraine), etc.

In all ship repair Contracts, the Company always acted as a General Contractor liable to shipowners for warranty obligations and ensured the constant attraction of credit funds from the largest banks of Ukraine in order to provide shipowners with temporary financial assistance in amount up to 50% of ships repair and re-equipment costs for a period up to 6 months.

During repair and re-equipment of each vessel under management of Dobrynya & Co Ltd large shipbuilding and ship repair yards of Ukraine acted as sub-contractors, as well as from 10 to 20 specialized private companies of Russia and Ukraine for each project.

Along with their ship repair activities, Dobrynya & Co Ltd numerously participated in shipbuilding projects as a sub-contractor for large shipyards in Russia and Ukraine for steel hulls forming for foreign ships in the cities of Kaliningrad, Kerch, Nikolaev.

In 1994-1998, Dobrynya & Co.Ltd successfully carried out multi-modal transportation of various exported cargoes from the Dnieper and Volga river ports, as well as seaports of Russia and Ukraine on the Azov and Black Seas to ports of Iran, Türkiye, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Algeria, Italy and other countries. For this purposes the Company used their own Danube-Sea type barges with load capacity of 1,000 tons, as well as chartered tugs and river-sea vessels with deadweight from 3,000 to 10,000 tons.

In the field of maritime transportation, the Company many times achieved high economic indicators. For example, with regular shipments of 5,000 tons rolled steel lots from the port of Mariupol (Ukraine) to the port of Mastaganem (Algeria) the average time charter equivalent on the m/v Vasily Shukshin chartered from the Danube Shipping Company was about USD 5,500 per day, while large shipping companies had no more than USD 3,000 - 3,500 for similar vessels per day.

In 2005-2008, Dobrynya & Co. Ltd equipped a new yacht-building shipyard at their base with an area of 4.6 hectares (Sevastopol). With assistance of leading scientists of the Nikolaev Shipbuilding Institute (Nikolaev), Company's Design Bureau engineers have developed and approved with the classification society a project of Fiolent type steel motor yacht of 11 meters length. We have built and successfully sold several yachts of this project at Russian and Ukrainian markets.

In 2009 the Company had been subjected to total pressure from the Fiscal Service of Ukraine (Kiev) on basis of corruption demands from a number of high-ranking Ukrainian officials and had to prove the justice in the courts of Ukraine within 5 years.

With the return of Sevastopol and Crimea to Russia in the spring of 2014, the Investigation Committee and the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation checked up all materials consisting of 22 folders of Ukrainian claims and fully acquited the Company activities in the field of shipbuilding and ship repair.

In December 2023 our group of leading specialists and engineers of the Company have made decision to return to active creative business in the field of shipbuilding and ship repair, because we have something to offer and to do in this field in order to promote development of the Russian economy and promote expansion of trade relations between Russia and friendly countries around all the world. We intend to begin implementing of this Project with support of the Ministry of Economic Development RF after normalization of the international situation in 2025-2027.