 Viking Helgi at Northern River Terminal in Moscow on 9 June 2012 | |
| History | |
|---|---|
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| Name |
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| Owner | 2003–2016: Passazhirskiy Flot [1] |
| Operator | Passazhirskiy Flot |
| Port of registry |
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| Route | Moscow – Saint Petersburg |
| Builder | VEB Elbewerften Boizenburg/Roßlau, Boizenburg,  East Germany |
| Yard number | 381 [2] |
| Completed | June 1984 |
| In service | 1984 |
| Identification |
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| Status | In service |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Dmitriy Furmanov-class river cruise ship |
| Tonnage | |
| Displacement | 3,853 tons; [2] |
| Length | 129.0 m (423.2 ft) [2] [3] |
| Beam | 16.7 m (55 ft) [2] [4] |
| Draught | 2.88 m (9.4 ft) [2] |
| Decks | 5 (4 passenger accessible) |
| Installed power | |
| Propulsion | 3 propellers [2] |
| Speed | 25.5 km/h (15.8 mph; 13.8 kn) |
| Capacity | 250 passengers [2] |
| Crew | 120 [2] |
The Viking Helgi (Russian : Викинг Хельги) is a Dmitriy Furmanov-class (project 302, BiFa129M) Soviet/Russian river cruise ship, cruising in the Volga – Neva basin. The ship was built by VEB Elbewerften Boizenburg/Roßlau at their shipyard in Boizenburg, East Germany, and entered service in 1984 as Aleksey Surkov being renamed after Oleg of Novgorod in its Scandinavian version Helgi in 2012. [5]
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Viking Helgi sails under Russian flag. Her home port is currently Saint Petersburg.
