diff --git a/backend.native/compiler/ir/backend.native/src/org/jetbrains/kotlin/backend/konan/KonanBuiltInClassDescriptorFactory.kt b/backend.native/compiler/ir/backend.native/src/org/jetbrains/kotlin/backend/konan/KonanBuiltInClassDescriptorFactory.kt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..b938037a3a8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/backend.native/compiler/ir/backend.native/src/org/jetbrains/kotlin/backend/konan/KonanBuiltInClassDescriptorFactory.kt
@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+package org.jetbrains.kotlin.backend.konan
+
+import org.jetbrains.kotlin.builtins.BuiltInsPackageFragment
+import org.jetbrains.kotlin.builtins.CloneableClassScope
+import org.jetbrains.kotlin.builtins.KotlinBuiltIns
+import org.jetbrains.kotlin.descriptors.*
+import org.jetbrains.kotlin.descriptors.impl.ClassDescriptorImpl
+import org.jetbrains.kotlin.name.ClassId
+import org.jetbrains.kotlin.name.FqName
+import org.jetbrains.kotlin.name.Name
+import org.jetbrains.kotlin.serialization.deserialization.ClassDescriptorFactory
+import org.jetbrains.kotlin.storage.StorageManager
+import org.jetbrains.kotlin.storage.getValue
+
+/**
+ * Note: this class is copy-pasted from [org.jetbrains.kotlin.builtins.JvmBuiltInClassDescriptorFactory].
+ */
+class KonanBuiltInClassDescriptorFactory(
+        storageManager: StorageManager,
+        private val moduleDescriptor: ModuleDescriptor,
+        private val computeContainingDeclaration: (ModuleDescriptor) -> DeclarationDescriptor = { module ->
+            module.getPackage(KOTLIN_FQ_NAME).fragments.filterIsInstance<BuiltInsPackageFragment>().first()
+        }
+) : ClassDescriptorFactory {
+
+    /**
+     * Workaround for `kotlin.Cloneable` deserialization: it is manually blacklisted in `ClassDeserializer`,
+     * so apply the same approach as on JVM, i.e. create the descriptor synthetically on demand:
+     */
+    private val cloneable by storageManager.createLazyValue {
+        ClassDescriptorImpl(
+                computeContainingDeclaration(moduleDescriptor),
+                CLONEABLE_NAME, Modality.ABSTRACT, ClassKind.INTERFACE, listOf(moduleDescriptor.builtIns.anyType),
+                SourceElement.NO_SOURCE, /* isExternal = */ false
+        ).apply {
+            initialize(CloneableClassScope(storageManager, this), emptySet(), null)
+        }
+    }
+
+    override fun shouldCreateClass(packageFqName: FqName, name: Name): Boolean =
+            name == CLONEABLE_NAME && packageFqName == KOTLIN_FQ_NAME
+
+    override fun createClass(classId: ClassId): ClassDescriptor? =
+            when (classId) {
+                CLONEABLE_CLASS_ID -> cloneable
+                else -> null
+            }
+
+    override fun getAllContributedClassesIfPossible(packageFqName: FqName): Collection<ClassDescriptor> =
+            when (packageFqName) {
+                KOTLIN_FQ_NAME -> setOf(cloneable)
+                else -> emptySet()
+            }
+
+    companion object {
+        private val KOTLIN_FQ_NAME = KotlinBuiltIns.BUILT_INS_PACKAGE_FQ_NAME
+        private val CLONEABLE_NAME = KotlinBuiltIns.FQ_NAMES.cloneable.shortName()
+        val CLONEABLE_CLASS_ID = ClassId.topLevel(KotlinBuiltIns.FQ_NAMES.cloneable.toSafe())
+    }
+}
diff --git a/backend.native/compiler/ir/backend.native/src/org/jetbrains/kotlin/backend/konan/KonanPlatform.kt b/backend.native/compiler/ir/backend.native/src/org/jetbrains/kotlin/backend/konan/KonanPlatform.kt
index 491be3747a4..2b3fb5b9917 100644
--- a/backend.native/compiler/ir/backend.native/src/org/jetbrains/kotlin/backend/konan/KonanPlatform.kt
+++ b/backend.native/compiler/ir/backend.native/src/org/jetbrains/kotlin/backend/konan/KonanPlatform.kt
@@ -56,6 +56,9 @@ class KonanBuiltIns(storageManager: StorageManager) : KotlinBuiltIns(storageMana
         // stdlib comes first to override declarations from builtIns (even when they are requested from builtIns).
         builtInsModule.setDependencies(stdlib, builtInsModule)
     }
+
+    override fun getClassDescriptorFactories() =
+            super.getClassDescriptorFactories() + KonanBuiltInClassDescriptorFactory(storageManager, builtInsModule)
 }
 
 object KonanPlatform : TargetPlatform("Konan") {