Krylov Shipbuilding Research Institute
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Today, the Krylov Institute is the principal scientific institution of the national shipbuilding industry and has a status of the Russian Federation State Research Centre for naval commercial ships. This status comes due to both the high qualifications of the staff researchers and experts who have established their own world-recognised schools of learning and the unique complement of experimental facilities combined with innovative in-house research methods and tools. Actually, the Krylov Institute has all key experimental facilities relevant for the following aspects of the marine technologies:

• Naval ship conceptual design studies   (trend prediction, future programme planning, methods for military/economic efficiency evaluations, shipbuilding industry technical/economical evaluations, etc.)
• Hydrodynamics ( seakeeping, performance, manoeuvrability , etc.)
• Commercial ship and offshore engineering conceptual design studies
• All kinds of marine propulsors (propulsive, acousticand strength performances)
• Structural mechanics (static and dynamic strengths of ship structures, marine equipment and machinery strength, structural protections and armouring, shock and vibration endurance)
• Marine power plants and power generation, including nuclear, as well as nuclear and radiation safety issues
• Equipment, machinery and ship acoustic performance (calculation, measurement and monitoring methods, noise control tools, instrumentation, platform noise affecting sonar operation)
• Stealth technologies for low-signature ship design (calculation, measurement and control methods for magnetic, electric, extreme-low-frequency electromagnetic, radar, lidar and infra-red signature parameters, including EMC problems of electric and electronic hardware and the reduction of electromagnetic noise affecting sensor operation)
• Hydrophysics interactions between engineering products and the marine environment; ecological monitoring for technology-infested water areas subjected to accidental pollution risks, and marine environment condition predictions
• Generation and updating of the shipbuilding industry database of technical regulations and standards, certification and licensing, microfilming of engineering documents
• Practical design , including construction documents, for commercial vessels, naval auxiliaries and offshore structures

The actual R&D potential of the Krylov Institute (experimental facilities and research personnel) is unique and the sole one available in Russia. Just this reason alone is enough to explain why it has never been, is or will be possible to produce a surface ship, a submarine and any other sophisticated marine engineering product without involving this or other capability of the Krylov Institute