Severodvinsk emerged from the workers’ village of Sudostroy and received the status of a city in 1938. The Day of the City of Severodvinsk is celebrated on the last Sunday in July (until 1957 the city was called Molotovsk).
Until 1936, the only permanent structure on the marshy shore of the Northern Dvina Bay was the abandoned 17th-century Nikolo-Korelsky Monastery. Then, in the area of the Nikolsky mouth of the Northern Dvina, they began to build a powerful shipyard.
In 1939, the first ship was laid down at the Sevmash plant – the battleship Sovetskaya Belorussia. During the Great Patriotic War, almost half of the inhabitants of Molotovsk (17.5 thousand out of 40 thousand) went to the front. The enterprise ensured the combat effectiveness of the ships of the Northern Fleet and the repair of foreign transports participating in the Northern convoys. In 1941-1945, the Molotov port became one of the main northern ports of the country, accepting deliveries on Lend-Lease.
This year Severodvinsk celebrates its 86th birthday. On that day, the city administration did everything it could: a performance by four military bands, amateur art groups, an exhibition of firefighting equipment, demonstrations of wrestlers and boxers, the final of the city motorcycle competition, a beach volleyball festival, a fair and much more.
Source: Rossa Primavera
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