Rossiya-class motorship
 River cruise ship Rimskiy Korsakov - Project 785 / OL800
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| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Builders | Slovenské Lodenice, Komárno, Czechoslovakia |
| In service | 1952 |
| Planned | 36 |
| Building | 36 |
| Completed | 36 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Cruise ship |
| Tonnage | GT |
| Length | 80.22 m (263.2 ft)[1] |
| Beam | 12.55 m (41.2 ft) ; third series 14.0 m (45.9 ft) |
| Draught | 1.9 m (6.2 ft) |
| Decks | 2 passenger decks |
| Installed power | 3 × 6L275 588 kilowatts (789 hp) |
| Propulsion | 3 |
| Speed | 20.5 km/h (12.7 mph; 11.1 kn) |
| Capacity | 259 passengers |
Rossiya class is a class of Russian river passenger ships, project 785. "Rossiya" means "Russia" in Russian. Two-deck cruise ships manufactured in Komárno, Czechoslovakia, 1952–1958. The shipyard's designation: OL800 (osobna lod - passenger motor ship 800 h.p.).[2]
River cruise ships of the project 785 / OL800[edit]
| Rossiya-class motorships | ||
|---|---|---|
| No. | Original name | English transliteration |
| First series of Project 785 | ||
| 1 | Россия (Россич, Распутин) | Rossiya (Rossich, Rasputin) |
| 2 | Украина | Ukraina |
| 3 | Белоруссия | Belorussiya |
| 4 | Азербайджан | Azerbaydzhan |
| 5 | Грузия | Gruziya |
| 6 | Армения | Armeniya |
| 7 | Молдавия | Moldaviya |
| 8 | Узбекистан (Царь Пётр, Коломенский Штандарт) | Uzbekistan (Tsar Pyotr, Kolomenskiy Shtandart) |
| 9 | Казахстан | Kazakhstan |
| Second series of Project 785 | ||
| 10 | Таджикистан (Кремас) | Tadzhikistan (Kremas) |
| 11 | Туркменистан | Turkmenistan |
| 12 | Киргизия (Петр Алабин) | Kirgiziya (Petr Alabin) |
| 13 | Карелия | Kareliya |
| 14 | Эстония (Киевская Русь, Князь Воронцов) | Estoniya (Kievskaya Rus, Knyaz Vorontsov) |
| 15 | Латвия (Михаил Годенко, Маяк) | Latviya (Mikhail Godenko, Mayak) |
| 16 | Литва | Litva |
| 17 | Украина (Булгария) | Ukraina (Bulgariya) |
| 18 | Мусоргский | Musorgskiy |
| 19 | Композитор Чайковский | Kompozitor Chaykovskiy |
| 20 | Бородин | Borodin |
| 21 | Римский-Корсаков | Rimskiy-Korsakov |
| 22 | Ипполитов-Иванов | Ippolitov-Ivanov |
| 23 | Антон Рубинштейн (Пересвет) | Anton Rubinshteyn (Peresvet) |
| 24 | Композитор Глазунов | Kompozitor Glazunov |
| 25 | Композитор Глинка | Kompozitor Glinka |
| Third series of Project 785 | ||
| 26 | Композитор Калинников | Kompozitor Kalinnikov |
| 27 | Композитор Прокофьев | Kompozitor Prokofyev |
| 28 | Композитор Скрябин | Kompozitor Skryabin |
| 29 | Композитор Алябьев | Kompozitor Alyabyev |
| 30 | Композитор Балакирев | Kompozitor Balakirev |
| 31 | А. П. Чехов (Байкал, Капитан Родин) | A. P. Chekhov (Baykal, Kapitan Rodin) |
| 32 | М. Ю. Лермонтов | M. Y. Lermontov |
| 33 | А. С. Грибоедов (И. И. Шишкин, Виктория) | A. S. Griboyedov (I. I. Shishkin, Viktoria) |
| 34 | Радянський Союз | Radyansykyy Soyuz |
| 35 | В. I. Ленiн (Т. Г. Шевченко) | V. I. Lenin (T. G. Shevtchenko) |
| 36 | Карл Маркс | Karl Marks |
Overview[edit]
| Rossiya-class ships | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year of build | Hull No | Series | Image | Name | Customer | Status[3][4] |
| 1952 | I |  |
Rasputin | Volga Shipping Company, Gorky | originally, the Rossiya, formerly: Rossich; hotelship near Chernobyl (1986-1989); scrapped in October 2011 | |
| 1952 | I | Ukraina (1952) | Volga Shipping Company, Gorky[5] | burnt on Don and scrapped in 1953 | ||
| 1953 | I | Image | Belorussiya | Volga Shipping Company, Gorky[6] | 1960 Kazan; hotelship near Chernobyl (1986-1989); out of service; scrapped in 1989 | |
| 1953 | I | Image | Azerbaydzhan | Volga Shipping Company, Gorky | hotelship near Chernobyl (1986-1989); WaterCenter near Sevastopol | |
| 1953 | I | Image | Armeniya | Volga Shipping Company, Gorky | 1961-1992 in Perm; out of service in 1989; near Chaikovskiy in Perm in 1993 | |
| 1953 | I | Image | Gruziya | Volga Shipping Company, Gorky | in Kazan in 1960; hotelship near Chernobyl (1986-1989); out of service | |
| 1953 | I | Image | Moldaviya | Volga Shipping Company, Gorky | 1962 Ob-Irtysh Shipping Company, Omsk; Volga-Don Shipping Company (Rostov-on-Don) (1975-1992), hotelship in Turkey, sank in September 1996 | |
| 1953 | 318 | I |  |
Kolomenskiy Shtandart | Volga Shipping Company, Gorky | originally, the Uzbekistan, Tsar Petr; hotelship near Chernobyl (1986-1989); hotelship and cafè near Kolomenskoye in Moscow |
| 1954 | I | Image | Kazakhstan | Volga Shipping Company, Gorky | out of service | |
| 1954 | II | Image | Kremas | Volga Shipping Company, Gorky | originally, the Kremas, formerly: Tadzhikistan; hotelship near Chernobyl (1986-1989); in Navashino for repair | |
| 1954 | II | Image | Turkmenistan | Volga Shipping Company, Gorky | burnt in 1986, out of service | |
| 1954 | 328 | II |  |
Petr Alabin | Volga Shipping Company, Gorky | originally, the Kirgiziya; hotelship near Chernobyl (1986-1989); arrested on the Volga on July 15, 2011 |
| 1955 | 323 | II | Image | Kareliya | Volga Shipping Company, Gorky | hotelship near Chernobyl (1986-1989); out of service in 2006 |
| 1955 | 324 | II |  |
Knyaz Vorontsov | Volga Shipping Company, Gorky | originally, the Estoniya, hotelship near Chernobyl (1986-1989); sold to Samara Kievskaya Rus (2003) OOO RusAgroTorg, Moscow[7] |
| 1955 | II | Mayak | Volga Shipping Company, Gorky | originally, the Latviya, formerly: Mikhail Godenko; hotelship Mayak in Krasnoyarsk | ||
| 1955 | 326 | II |  |
Litva | Volga Shipping Company, Gorky | sold to OOO Selikhov as hotelship in Krasnoyarsk |
| 1955 | II |  |
Bulgariya | Volga Shipping Company, Gorky | originally, the Ukraina, sank on the Volga on July 10, 2011 | |
| 1956 | II | Musorgskiy | Volga Shipping Company, Gorky | delivered to Volga-Don Shipping Company, Rostov-on-Don | ||
| 1956 | II | Chaykovskiy | Volga Shipping Company, Gorky | out of service | ||
| 1956 | II | Mikhail Godenko | Yenissey Shipping Company, Krasnoyarsk[8] | originally, the Borodin | ||
| 1956 | II | |
Rimskiy-Korsakov | Volga Shipping Company, Gorky | listed for sale in October 2011 again[9] | |
| 1956 | II | Ippolitov-Ivanov | Yenissey Shipping Company, Krasnoyarsk | out of service in 2005 | ||
| 1956 | II | Peresvet | Yenissey Shipping Company, Krasnoyarsk | originally, the Anton Rubinshteyn, out of service in 1992, since 2004 hotelship Peresvet in Krasnoyarsk | ||
| 1956 | II | Kompozitor Glazunov | Volga Shipping Company, Gorky | |||
| 1956 | II | Kompozitor Glinka | Volga Shipping Company, Gorky | out of service in 1995 | ||
| 1957 | III | Kompozitor Kalinnikov | Yenissey Shipping Company, Krasnoyarsk | out of service, since 1997 hotelship Viktoria in Krasnoyarsk | ||
| 1957 | III | Kompozitor Prokofyev | Yenissey Shipping Company, Krasnoyarsk | out of service in Krasnoyarsk in 2005 | ||
| 1957 | III | Image | Kompozitor Skryabin | Kama Shipping Company, Molotov | out of service, in Chshaykovskiy in Perm | |
| 1957 | III | Kompozitor Alyabyev | Ob-Irtysch-Reederei, Omsk | out of service in 1999 | ||
| 1957 | III | Kompozitor Balakirev | Ob-Irtysch-Reederei, Omsk | out of service | ||
| 1957 | III | Kapitan Rodin | Yenissey Shipping Company, Krasnoyarsk | originally, the Baykal, formerly: A. P. Chekhov; out of service in 2005 | ||
| 1958 | 31 | III | Image of ship hull No. | M. Yu. Lermontov | Yenissey Shipping Company, Krasnoyarsk | |
| 1958 | 343 | III | Viktoria | Kama Shipping Company | originally, the A. S. Griboyedov, formerly: I. I. Shishkin; out of service | |
| 1958 | III | Radyansykyy Soyus | Dnepr Shipping Company, Dnipropetrovsk | 1986-1989 hotelship near Chernobyl; forgotten near Kiev[10] | ||
| 1958 | III |  |
T. G. Shevchenko | Dnepr Shipping Company, Dnepropetrovsk | originally, the V. I. Lenin, out of service in 1989 and sank later | |
| 1958 | III | Image | Karl Marks | Dnepr Shipping Company, Kiev[11] | hotelship near Chernobyl (1986-1989); out of service in 1989, forgotten near Kiev | |
See also[edit]
- List of river cruise ships
- Valerian Kuybyshev-class motorship
- Dmitriy Furmanov-class motorship
- Baykal-class motorship
- Anton Chekhov-class motorship
- Sergey Yesenin-class motorship
- Oktyabrskaya Revolyutsiya-class motorship
- Ukraina-class motorship
- Dunay-class motorship
References[edit]
- ^ Projekt 785 (in Russian)
- ^ Project 785
- ^ Судьба судов проекта 785 Archived 2011-08-12 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Project 785, 785А, Rossiya class
- ^ Image
- ^ Belorussiya 1953
- ^ Knyaz Vorotsov (Kievskaya Russ, Estoniya)
- ^ Image
- ^ Объявление Иртышского пароходства https://web.archive.org/web/20101121012550/http://www.irsc.ru/board/ (in Russian)
- ^ Теплоход Радянський Союз (in Russian)
- ^ Karl Marks (1958)
External links[edit]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Project 785 Riverboats.
- Проект 785, 785А, тип Россия (in Russian)
- Project 785 (in Russian)