EU's largest Russia listing hits Sevmash, Admiralty Shipyards and submarine design bureaus
826 companies and 743 executives added on 12 October, among them the yards and bureaus behind Russia's nuclear submarines
The European Union on 12 October added 826 Russian companies and 743 individuals, described by the Council as their chief executives, to its sanctions list, the largest single set of listings since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The Council of the EU said the companies supply key components for missiles, drones and aircraft, have a combined annual turnover of at least €20bn and employ more than 250,000 people. The total under the regime now stands at close to 4,600 listings.
EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said the measures would make it "significantly harder, slower and more expensive for Russia to produce the weapons". Listed entities face an asset freeze, and EU persons may not make funds or economic resources available to them; listed individuals are also banned from entering the EU.
Which yards are on the list?
Shipbuilding is a large part of the round. In Severodvinsk the list includes the Sevmash shipyard, which builds Yasen-M and Borei-A class nuclear submarines and the special-purpose submarines Khabarovsk and Belgorod, and repairs warships including the nuclear-powered cruiser Admiral Nakhimov. It also covers the Zvezdochka yard, which repairs and modernises older nuclear submarines of the Northern Fleet, the Onega design and technology bureau and Severny Reyd, which makes and repairs navigation and automation systems for naval ships.
In St Petersburg the Rubin bureau, designer of the Borei-A class, and Malakhit, responsible for the Yasen-M class, are listed, together with Admiralty Shipyards and its chief executive Andrey Veselov. Other listed yards named in the round include Severnaya Verf, Amur Shipbuilding Plant, the Dalzavod ship repair centre in Vladivostok, Vyborg Shipyard, Sredne-Nevsky Shipyard, the Nevsky shipbuilding and ship repair plant and the Vympel shipbuilding plant. Several ship repair plants are covered too: the 13th in Sevastopol, the 33rd in the Kaliningrad region and Shipyard No. 82 at Roslyakovo, north of Murmansk, whose floating dock PD-50 sank in 2018 while the aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov was under repair.
Two Severstal plants in Cherepovets, Severstal Lifting Technologies and Severstal Cables, are also listed, as is the property developer Samolet and its chief executive Anna Akinshina, over the use of North Korean workers on construction projects including a residential complex in Kola, near Murmansk.
What does it change for shipping?
The listings freeze the assets of the named yards and bar EU companies from dealing with them. They do not amount to a ban on Russian-built ships, which remain subject to the EU's existing vessel listings and port restrictions. For owners and suppliers, the practical effect is on repair, equipment and service contracts with the listed yards and their subsidiaries, including several companies of the United Shipbuilding Corporation group.
This story is part of the Maritime Briefing of 14 October 2026.
