| River cruise ship Georgiy Zhukov | |
| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Builders | Slovenské Lodenice , Komárno, Czechoslovakia |
| Operators | Vodohod |
| In service | 1976 |
| Planned | 9 |
| Completed | 9 |
| Active | 7 |
| Retired | 2 |
| Preserved | 7 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | River cruise ship |
| Tonnage | 6,308 GT [1] |
| Displacement | 3,950 t [1] |
| Length | 135.75 m (445.4 ft) [1] [2] |
| Beam | 16.8 m (55 ft) [1] [3] |
| Draught | 2.9 m (9.5 ft) [1] |
| Decks | 4 passenger decks |
| Installed power | 3 × 6ЧРН36/45 (ЭГ70-5)2,208 kilowatts (2,961 hp) [1] |
| Propulsion | 3 [1] |
| Speed | 26 km/h (16 mph; 14 kn) |
| Capacity | 400 passengers |
Valerian Kuybyshev class is a class of Russian river passenger ships. [4] It got name after the first ship of class Valerian Kuybyshev .
Four-deck cruise ships manufactured in Komárno, Czechoslovakia, 1976–1983. [5]
| Valerian Kuybyshev-class motorships | ||
|---|---|---|
| No. | Original name | English transliteration |
| 1 | Валериан Куйбышев | Valerian Kuybyshev |
| 2 | Климент Ворошилов(Фёдор [6] Шаляпин) | Kliment Voroshilov(Fyodor Shalyapin) |
| 3 | Феликс Дзержинский | Feliks Dzerzhinskiy |
| 4 | Георгий Димитров (Сергей Кучкин) | Georgiy Dimitrov(Sergey Kuchkin) |
| 5 | Михаил Фрунзе | Mikhail Frunze |
| 6 | Михаил Калинин(Мстислав Ростропович) | Mikhail Kalinin(Mstislav Rostropovich) |
| 7 | Александр Суворов | Aleksandr Suvorov |
| 8 | Семён Будённый [6] | Semyon Budyonnyy |
| 9 | Георгий Жуков | Georgiy Zhukov |
| Valerian Kuybyshev class | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month and year of build | Hull No [7] | Image | Name | Customer | Port of registry | Status |
| December 1975 | 2001 | | Valerian Kuybyshev | Volga Shipping Company | Gorky → Nizhny Novgorod | RRR number: 140655; [1] scrapped in 2018 |
| 1977 | 2002 | | Fyodor Shalyapin | Volga Shipping Company | Gorky → Nizhny Novgorod | originally, the Kliment Voroshilov, RRR number: 140656 [8] scrapped in 2023 |
| 1978 | 2003 | | Feliks Dzerzhinskiy | Volga Shipping Company | Gorky → Nizhny Novgorod | RRR number: 140657 [9] |
| 1979 | 2004 | | Sergey Kuchkin | Volga Shipping Company | Gorky → Nizhny Novgorod | originally, the Georgiy Dimitrov, RRR number: 140658 [10] |
| April 1980 | 2005 | | Mikhail Frunze | Volga Shipping Company | Gorky → Nizhny Novgorod | RRR number: 140659 [11] |
| 1981 | 2006 | | Mstislav Rostropovich | Volga Shipping Company | Gorky → Nizhny Novgorod | originally, the Mikhail Kalinin, RRR number: 140660 [12] |
| 1981 | 2007 | | Aleksandr Suvorov | Volga Shipping Company | Rostov-on-Don → Gorky → Nizhny Novgorod | RRR number: 140661 [13] |
| 1981 | 2008 | | Semyon Budyonnyy | Volga Shipping Company | Gorky → Nizhny Novgorod | RRR number: 140662 [14] |
| April 1983 | 2009 | | Georgiy Zhukov | Volga Shipping Company | Gorky → Nizhny Novgorod | RRR number: 140663 [15] |