Baykal-class motorship

River cruise ship Korolenko as hotel in Vyborg
Class overview
Builders	VEB Warnowwerft Warnemünde, Warnemünde, East Germany
Built	1953-1956
Planned	15
Completed	15
Active	3
General characteristics
Tonnage	1,091 GT
Displacement	774 t
Length	65.2 m (214 ft)
Beam	12 m (39 ft)
Draught	2.22 m (7.3 ft)
Decks	2 passenger decks
Installed power	2 × 6NVD48 588 kilowatts (789 hp)
Propulsion	2
Speed	25.5 km/h (15.8 mph; 13.8 kn)
Capacity	197 passengers
Crew	40

Baykal class is a class of Russian river passenger ships. It is named after Baikal.

Two-deck cargo-passenger ships were built by VEB Warnowwerft Warnemünde, at their shipyard in Warnemünde, in East Germany in 1953–1956.

River cruise ships of the project 646

Baykal-class motorships
No.	Original name	English transliteration
1	Байкал (Академик Киренский)	Baykal (Akademik Kirenskiy)
2	Иссык-Куль (40 лет ВЛКСМ, Капитан Пономарев)	Issyk-Kul (40 let VLKSM, Kapitan Ponomarev)
3	Балхаш (Профессор Близняк, Близняк)	Balkhash (Professor Bliznyak, Bliznyak)
4	Онега	Onega
5	Севан (Герой Ю. Гагарин, Господин Великий Новгород)	Sevan (Geroy Yu. Gagarin, Gospodin Velikiy Novgorod)
6	Ладога (Ladoga)	Ladoga (Ladoga)
7	Короленко	Korolenko
8	Ленинский Комсомол	Leninskiy Komsomol
9	Белинский	Belinskiy
10	Радищев (Красногвардеец, Сергей Орлов)	Radishchev (Krasnogvardeets, Sergey Orlov)
11	Чернышевский	Chernyshevskiy
12	Механик Кулибин	Mekhanik Kulibin
13	Механик Калашников	Mekhanik Kalashnikov
14	Сергеев-Ценский (Родина)	Sergeev-Tsenskiy (Rodina)
15	Мамин-Сибиряк	Mamin-Sibiryak

See also

• Rossiya-class motorship (1952)
• Rossiya-class motorship (1973)
• Dmitriy Furmanov-class motorship
• Valerian Kuybyshev-class motorship
• Rodina-class motorship
• Anton Chekhov-class motorship
• Maksim Gorkiy-class motorship
• Sergey Yesenin-class motorship
• Oktyabrskaya Revolyutsiya-class motorship
• Yerofey Khabarov-class motorship