The Almaz Central Marine Design Bureau, joint-stock company is one of the leading enterprises of the domestic shipbuilding industry in the design of ships and vessels of small and medium displacement for various purposes. One of the main areas of scientific and technical competence of the Bureau is the research and development of avant-garde hydrodynamic schemes of ship hulls in order to increase their sea-keeping qualities with an emphasis on their performance (speed and maneuverability). The Bureau has extensive experience in development of ships with dynamic principles of support, which include ships with automatically controlled hydrofoils, with automatically controlled bottom-mounted interceptors, amphibious and skeg-type air cushion vessels, etc.
By to the Bureau’s projects, about 26 thousand units of marine equipment have been built, about 1000 of them have been delivered to almost 40 countries of the world. The whole range of the Bureau's developed projects can be divided into two main categories: