River cruise ship Georgiy Zhukov | |
Class overview | |
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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 | ||
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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 | ||||||
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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] |
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