07/01/2019 / River cruises
The United Shipbuilding Corporation and the Moscow River Shipping Company entered into an additional agreement to the contract for the construction of the Peter the Great cruise ship, which is being built according to the PV300VD project.

05.24.2019 / River cruises
On May 24, 2019, at the Lotos shipyard (Astrakhan region), the passenger cruise ship “Peter the Great,” built according to the PV300VD project, was launched. The vessel with construction number 25800, which was laid down in August 2016, is being built by order of the leasing company Mashpromlizing for the Moscow River Shipping Company.

05.11.2019 / Water transport
The first Chaika should be ready by August 30, 2019. There are plans to launch these ships from the Riviera on Kazanka to Sviyazhsk. The customer for the construction was one of the divisions of the corporation - VolgaTatSudoremont, which also has a broader task - to solve the problem of the high cost of river shipbuilding at the plant named after. Gorky. It is assumed that the company will have separate pricing for services.

04.04.2019 / Water transport
Sea trials of new river pleasure boats built last year in Turkey have begun in Moscow. This is a flotilla of 10 small catamaran ships named after flowers: “Astra”, “Cornflower”, “Carnation”, “Lavender”, “Forget-Me-Not”, “Orchid”, “Sunflower” , "Rose", "Tulip" and "Fuchsia".

03/14/2019 / River cruises
On March 13, President of the United Shipbuilding Corporation Alexey Rakhmanov checked the progress of construction of the cruise ship "Mustai Karim" (formerly "Prince Vladimir"), which is being built according to the PV300 project at the Krasnoye Sormovo plant in Nizhny Novgorod.

03/11/2019 / River cruises
The second cruise ship, being built according to the PV300 project for the Vodokhod company, which is scheduled for commissioning in 2020, will receive a different name. Let us recall that in February 2017, a month before the keel of the vessel at the Krasnoye Sormovo plant in Nizhny Novgorod, it was announced that the ship would be called “Prince Vladimir”.

02/28/2019 / Water transport
The Nizhny Novgorod company "Gama" is developing a project for a three-deck wheeled cruise ship for the Kaliningrad region, said the company's general director Dmitry Galkin.

02.23.2019 / River cruises
In the fall of 2019, it will be exactly five years since the news that a new passenger cruise liner, built to operate in Russia, was launched in Croatia. The ship, named Volga Dream II, was supposed to begin operating on flights from Moscow to St. Petersburg in 2015. And now, after 5 years, the ship will finally be put into operation. But not like “Volga Dream 2”, and it will not work in Russia. Why did this happen and what awaits the airliner in the future?

12/26/2018 / Water transport
The Krasnoyarsk Territory will acquire two passenger cruise ships: as stated by the regional governor Alexander Uss, their keel will take place in St. Petersburg in the spring of 2019. The capacity of each ship will be 240-280 passengers. The cost of one vessel is from 1.5 to 2 billion rubles.

27.11.2018 / Water transport
On November 19, 2018, a meeting was held at the Ministry of Transport and Road Facilities of the Republic of Tatarstan with the participation of representatives of the Ak Bars Shipbuilding Corporation JSC, at which a draft business plan for the operation of ships of the Chaika project and the subsequent creation of a shipping company for these purposes was considered on the territory of the Republic of Tatarstan.

07.11.2018 / Water transport
On the afternoon of November 6, in the waters of the Khimki Reservoir in the north of Moscow, the second batch of river pleasure vessels, built in Turkey for work in the center of Moscow, was unloaded. The dry cargo ship, which had five ships on board, arrived in the capital on the evening of November 4 from the port of Taganrog. Let us recall that the first batch of ships, also in the amount of five sides, was delivered to Moscow from the port of Rostov-on-Don in mid-October of this year and after unloading at the Khimki Reservoir, they left for the winter in the Southern River Port of Moscow.

10/11/2018 / Water transport
On the evening of October 11, all five new pleasure boats, built in Turkey to work in the center of Moscow, and arriving in the capital the same day, were launched and began their first test voyages on the Khimki Reservoir. Let us recall that 10 ships of the same type were supposed to arrive in Moscow in the spring of this year, but in the end only five arrived, and then only in the fall.

10/11/2018 / Water transport
On the afternoon of October 11, 2018, a train consisting of a tug and a barge arrived in Moscow, on which five pleasure river vessels were delivered to the capital from Rostov-on-Don. In turn, they were brought to Rostov by sea from Turkey, where they were built.

06.09.2018 / River cruises
The information that the cruise ship “Peter the Great”, which has been under construction since 2016 in the Astrakhan region, will not be delivered on time, was confirmed by the President of the United Shipbuilding Corporation Alexey Rakhmanov.

08.29.2018 / River cruises
The delivery date of the first cruise ship of the PV300 project “Peter the Great” may be missed. Instead of 2019, the ship will probably be delivered only in 2020-2021, if it can be completed. In addition to problems with ship engines, new problems arose at the Lotos shipyard, where the ship was laid down in August 2016.

04/26/2018 / River cruises
The commissioning dates for the Peter the Great river cruise liner, which has been under construction in the Astrakhan region since August 2016 for the Moscow River Shipping Company, may be significantly changed upward.

04/20/2018 / Water transport
On April 27, at the Gorky plant in Zelenodolsk (Tatarstan), a laying ceremony will be held for two pleasure passenger river vessels, which, after they are put into operation, will have to operate in Tatarstan.

01/17/2018 / River cruises
On January 17, at the Lotos shipyard in the Astrakhan region, the keel of the Golden Ring type passenger cruise river vessel of the PKS-180 project took place. The ship is being built by order of Goznak-Leasing CJSC for Volgaservice LLC, which is directly related to the Nizhny Novgorod cruise company Gama.

12/27/2017 / River cruises
The construction of two passenger cruise wheeled motor ships of the PKS-180 project of the "Golden Ring" type for the Nizhny Novgorod company "Gama" should begin next year at the Lotos shipyard in the Astrakhan region, where in the summer of 2016 the motor ship of the PV-300 project was laid down, receiving name "Peter the Great". The laying of new vessels is planned in the first quarter of 2018, and by 2019 the first vessel should be delivered to Gama.

06.12.2017 / River cruises
The first liner of the new series of cruise ships of the PV-300 project will bear the name of Peter the Great. The cruise ship for 310 passengers was laid down at the Lotos plant in the Astrakhan region in August 2016. The launch of the lead vessel of the series is planned for April 2019.

11/10/2017 / Water transport
On the morning of November 9, the passenger pleasure ship Snegiri-4 arrived in Moscow. This river catamaran vessel was built according to project 19.2509 at the RIF shipbuilding and ship repair plant located in Rostov-on-Don in 2016-2017.

09.27.2017 / River cruises
The United Shipbuilding Corporation is unlikely to sign new orders for cruise ships until 2018. Shipping companies are ready to build them only on the terms of the captive leasing OSK Goznak-Leasing, but the budget has not yet allocated funds for it, writes Kommersant.

06.06.2017 / Water transport
On May 31, 2017, the first mixed river-sea cruise passenger ship “Standart” of project PV09, built in the 21st century, was christened in St. Petersburg, the Marine Engineering Bureau reports in its press release.

05.24.2017 / Water transport
The three-deck passenger cruise ship "Standart", formerly called "Princess Olga" and "Tanais", has officially been put into operation. This was reported in the Marine Engineering Bureau, where the technical project PV09, according to which the ship was built, was developed.

05/10/2017 / Water transport
In May 2017, new pleasure passenger ships “Snegiri-1” and “Snegiri-2”, built in 2015-2016 at the Belogorodskaya Shipyard, a shipbuilding and ship repair plant located in the village of Bely Gorodok in Tverskaya, began operating on the Moscow River in the center of the capital. areas.

04/03/2017 / River cruises
The Krasnoye Sormovo shipyard, part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC), may receive an order for the construction of the third passenger cruise ship of the PV300 project.

03/31/2017 / River cruises
On March 28, 2017, at the Nizhny Novgorod shipyard "Krasnoye Sormovo" the ceremonial laying of the 342-passenger cruise ship of the PV300 project, built by order of the shipping company "Vodokhod", took place. The vessel, named "Prince Vladimir", must be handed over to the customer before February 1, 2020.

03/30/2017 / River cruises
On March 28, 2017, at the Krasnoye Sormovo shipyard in Nizhny Novgorod, a ceremony was held to lay down the second cruise passenger ship of the PV300 project.

02.23.2017 / River cruises
On one of the websites of the Vodokhod company, aimed at foreign tourist audiences, a render appeared with the name of the vessel - Prince Vladimir, which is in Russian spelling, and the names of ships operating under the Russian flag must be in Russian, can be translated as “Prince Vladimir "

02/11/2017 / River cruises
At the Lotos shipyard, located in the Astrakhan region, the preparatory stage of construction of the PV300 river cruise ship has been completed and work has begun on the formation of the ship's hull on the slipway. There are 12 sections in production with a total weight of 350 tons.

01/23/2017 / River cruises
The Vodokhod shipping company, part of Vladimir Lisin’s UCL Holding, has signed a contract with the United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) for the construction of a cruise liner.

01/18/2017 / River cruises
In April 2017, the river motor ship "Belaya Rus", which was built in 2011-2016 at the Pinsk Shipyard (Belarus), should set out on its first cruise on the route Brest - Mozyr.

01.11.2016 / Water transport
On the afternoon of November 1, a new passenger ship “Princess Olga” arrived from the Volga to the backwater of the Khlebnikovsky ship repair plant, located near the city of Dolgoprudny, Moscow region.

10.30.2016 / Water transport
Since October 18, the new passenger ship "Princess Olga", launched in the fall of 2014 in Rybinsk, and completed in 2014-2016 in Moscow, has been undergoing sea trials on the Volga. Now the ship is based in the city of Kimry, Tver Region. After completing sea trials, the ship will go to the Nobel Brothers Shipyard in Rybinsk.

10.17.2016 / Water transport
This week, sea trials of the new passenger ship “Princess Olga”, built by order of the Moscow River Shipping Company in 2014-2016, will take place on the Volga. On Monday night it arrived in the city of Kimry, Tver Region. The passage of the vessel from Moscow to the Volga, carried out with the help of two tugs, began in the evening of October 15 and ended in the morning of October 17.

08/18/2016 / River cruises
Representatives of the St. Petersburg company “Marine Technology” are scheduled to arrive in Salekhard at the beginning of September. The purpose of their visit is to agree on budgets and deadlines for the construction of cargo and passenger ships, which should replace the Project 646 motor ships currently operating on the Ob and Irtysh.

08/15/2016 / River cruises
On August 15, the keel-laying ceremony of a new cruise ship of the PV300VD project was held at the Lotos shipyard (Astrakhan region). The vessel belongs to the class of river-sea vessels, with a passenger capacity of 300 people.

06.29.2016 / River cruises
As part of the “Rivers of Russia” forum held on June 24-25, representatives of the Marine Engineering Bureau presented a report on cruise ships, and also discussed the creation and modernization of the necessary infrastructure for the GDP, the revival of cruise shipbuilding.

05.16.2016 / Water transport
On May 16, 2016, Governor Nikolai Tsukanov took part in the presentation of a pleasure boat produced in 2016 at the local enterprise Ushakovo Shipyards. This is the first time a passenger ship with such technical characteristics has been presented in the Kaliningrad region.

01/25/2016 / River cruises
In 2016, the Ministry of Industry and Trade expects to begin the construction of new cruise ships intended for operation on the inland waterways of Russia and beyond. It is proposed to take the PV300VD project, developed by the Ukrainian Marine Engineering Bureau from Odessa several years ago, as a basis.

I have been interested in river ships for almost 18 years now. There are dozens of cruises behind me, along many navigable rivers of the post-Soviet space: Volga, Kama, Don, Neva, Dnieper, Yenisei, Lena... Over the years, I have managed to fall in love with river cruises, become immersed in the history of motor ships and make friends with wonderful people for whom the fate of river ships is far away not indifferent. During this time, before my eyes, many beautiful ships have gone or are going down into history, which I want to talk about. Why are they leaving? There are many reasons, some change their name, and plow the river under a new name. Others were unlucky with financing, or an ineffective company providing a range of services from technical maintenance to the sale of vouchers. As a result, ships sit idle in the backwaters for navigation after navigation. Still others are even more unlucky; a fire or other reasons lead to the ship being cut to pieces. I will only talk about some of the ships that have caught my eye since about 2005, when I got my first digital camera.

01. April 5, 2005, Moscow, Northern River Station (SVR). That winter, many ships spent the winter at SVR. And some of them stood in an unusual arrangement, namely perpendicular to the piers.

02. One of the shipping companies was modernizing the interior of its ships. This is quite unique, since such events usually take place in backwaters, and not in front of onlookers.

03. One of them is the motor ship "Ernest Thälmann" ( who remembers this one?) 588 project, built in Germany 1955. Today he works under a different name - "Caesar". And in the winter of 2004-2005, reconstruction of the internal premises took place right at the SVR.

04. What else is interesting here? Kazan motor ship "Arabella" (project 588), operating in winter as a hotel and restaurant. That winter, 3 or 4 motor ships operated as hotels: I definitely remember the Nizhny Novgorod "Konstantin Fedin" (301) and traditionally "Sergei Abramov" ...

05. Navigation in 2005 was opened, along with others, by the motor ship "Lesya Ukrainka" (301 projects) on a voyage to Uglich. Built in 1977, it operated on the Dnieper until the mid-90s. And since 2001 - on the Volga. By the way, this is the last year of operation of the ship under the name "Lesya Ukrainka".

06. Today the ship is called "Pyotr Tchaikovsky". Funny change huh? And what’s even funnier is the first title - “XXV Congress of the CPSU”. Such is the metamorphosis.)

07. Like the motor ship “Lesya Ukrainka”, “Aleksey Vatchenko”, after construction in 1985, arrived on the Dnieper where it worked until 2001, after which the ship was transferred to the Volga. This is my first cruise ship, after the modest ships of the Moscow-Astrakhan, Moscow-Rostov-on-Don transport line. I remember well the culture shock from the level of comfort of the motor ship "Alexei Vatchenko".) Since 2006, it has changed its name to today's - "Ivan Bunin".

08. The “Belinsky” no longer plows the expanses of the KIM (Moscow Canal), and there is no such ship anymore. It stands somewhere under a new name - "Shlisselburg". Meanwhile, the history of the ship is interesting. Built in 1957 in Germany, the Project 646 vessel entered the Soviet Danube Shipping Company, and from Germany it was transported under its own power not along inland waterways (the Danube), but around Europe: Through the North Sea, the Bay of Biscay, the Atlantic Ocean (!), the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. He worked mainly on the line Izmail - Odessa, Izmail - Kiliya - Vilkovo - Odessa - Ochakov - Nikolaev. And on tourist lines along the Danube, to Yugoslav (then) Belgrade. Since 1982, he worked in Kyiv on the transport line Kyiv - Skadovsk - Mezhvodnoye (Crimea). I remember seeing this ship standing almost abandoned in the waters of Kyiv in 1996. In 2003, it was transported to Moscow, and here for almost 10 years the ship regularly took tourists to Uglich, Yaroslavl and other Volga cities.

09. Another motor ship 588 of the F. Joliot-Curie project, which seems to have gone down in history, was named in 1961 in honor of the French physicist and public figure Frederic Joliot-Curie. The motor ship entered the Kama River Shipping Company, where it worked until 2011. At the end of 2011, a fire occurred on the ship standing in the backwater, as a result of which it was taken out of service. Will the "zholik" return ( that's what his fans called him) to the open spaces? Good question... The photo was taken in Kostroma in 2005.

10. I came across “N. Gastello” near the Kazan River Station in the same 2005. In 2007, the ship, by the way, built in 1954, was reconstructed by adding a fourth deck, and renamed “Alexei Tolstoy”. That's how it works to this day. And "Gastello" has sunk into oblivion...

11. Diesel-electric ship "Karelia" in Samara. This is the penultimate year of operation of the vessel. Since 2006, the ship has been taken out of service and its future fate as a transport vessel is most likely hopeless.

12. Another unique name is the motor ship of project 26-37 “Professor Lukachev” in Saratov. Built in 1961 in Czechoslovakia, it entered the Volga Shipping Company under the name "Klement Gottwald". I remember him well on the Moscow-Astrakhan-Moscow transport line. Having survived several more renamings (Catherine the Great 2006-2009), the ship continues to operate safely under the name "Native Rus'".

13. There in Saratov, I met the motor ship "K.A. Timiryazev", which has not been in operation since navigation in 2013,

14. and "Pavel Mironov" of the 305th project, built in 1962 in Budapest, also decommissioned in 2012. What is their future fate? Will they ever fly again? Let's hope they come out!

15. And they will not repeat the fate of the motor ship "Yuri Zavadsky" of project 305, built in 1963. In 1992, the ship was taken out of service and never returned to the river. In 2005, I found it in the backwater of the Memory of the Paris Commune near Nizhny Novgorod in this condition. And after 4 years in 2009 it was finally cut.

16. By the way, in the same backwater in 2005, the now well-known motor ships “N.A. Nekrasov” and “Alexander Benois”, then called “Yakov Sverdlov”, stood for reconstruction. I was lucky enough to sail on both ships when they worked on the Moscow-Astrakhan transport line.

17. It was great!

18. Authentic "Nikolai Shchors" in Moscow in the Northern River Port, 2006. Since its construction in the city of Komarno, Czechoslovakia, from 1962 to 1997, the ship has worked regularly on the Moscow-Astrakhan-Moscow transport line. And after 2002 he worked in the niche of economy cruises from Moscow. In 2010, it was renamed, and today the ship is known under the name "Mikhail Tanich".

19. In 2005, the motor ship 305 of the project “Hero A. Sutyrin” found its seemingly “eternal berth” on the Klyazma reservoir near Moscow. In this place, seemingly in a completely abandoned state, it still stands. I believe he is no longer destined to return to duty.

20. "Alexander Shemagin" in Tver in 2006 (the last navigation of the ship),

21. nowadays. Rebuilt beyond recognition, since 2007 under the name "Swallow II", it is used as a banquet vehicle in Moscow.

photo from the Internet

22. The already mentioned “Alexey Vatchenko” (Ivan Bunin) in Tver, in 2006.

23. "Nikolai Bauman" in Uglich. Motor ship 302 project since its construction in 1989 in Germany, and until 2011 it worked in the Moscow River Shipping Company. True, in 2009 he changed his name, becoming “Princess Anastasia”. And in August 2011, he was sent to the oil fields of the Caspian Sea in Kazakhstan, where he worked as a hostel for workers. In 2013 he returned, but unfortunately not to cruises. Temporarily taken out of service, located in the backwater of the PPK near Nizhny Novgorod. Hopefully, pending reconstruction.)

24. Another example of the former Dnieper motor ships - "Maxim Rylsky", the city of Myshkin, 2006. In 1988-1979, a newly built ship in Germany received the proud name "V.I. Lenin" (this is not some XXV Congress of the CPSU...). In the early 90s, 1998, following the trend, he changed his name, which had become unpopular, to “Maxim Rylsky” in honor of the Ukrainian poet. So he worked until 2001 on the Dnieper. And since 2001 in Russia. In 2010, it received its new name, under which Mikhail Bulgakov operates today.

25. The wonderful motor ship "Alexander Pirogov" in 2006,

26. and a year later in 2007 in Brateevo, Moscow. True, now it is called “Fedor Ushakov”, and as far as I understand, it is the largest banquet vehicle in Moscow. It is so huge that during the entire navigation of 2014 it stood in the quiet backwater of the Capital Shipping Company, near the former ZIL plant in Moscow...)

27. "N.G. Slavyanov" in Moscow at the SVR in 2006. Already history. Fortunately, not the ship itself, but the name. From 2011 to this day he works under the name "Sergey Obraztsov"

28. Rare shot. Still the same Northern River Station in Moscow, still the same 2006. And motor ships that have gone down in history. Sergei Abramov, famous from the film “Election Day,” in 2011, right on the SVR, burned live for almost a day. In September 2013, the ship was finally dismantled in Cherepovets. And the neighboring motor ship "Kazan", built in 1999 at the shipyards of the Italian Messina, arrived in the Russian Federation in 2003. It is also famous for the meeting of the Presidium of the State Council of the Russian Federation led by the President in 2003 that took place on board. After 2003, the ship made luxury cruises, including to European cities, I think to Vienna.

29. In 2007, I also visited this ship on a short cruise from St. Petersburg to Valaam. This is a beautiful ship and it’s a pity that today it remains only in memories... Since 2009, it has sailed under the flag of Kazakhstan and the name “Kurmangazy”, and is used as a floating hostel for workers in the oil fields of the Caspian Sea. Will she ever return to our waters as a cruise ship?

30. Somewhere on the upper Volga the motor ship "Arabella", which was the "Lev Dovator" until 2002. The ship is famous for its participation in the rescue of passengers of the sunken Bulgaria in 2011. In 2012, the Arabella was decommissioned, and a long process of rebuilding the ship and deep reconstruction began. What his fate is is unknown.

31. Another wonderful motor ship of project 588 is “Peter the First”. The former "Ivan Susanin". From 1960 to 1992, the ship worked for the Moscow River Shipping Company. From 1996 to 2004 she was in Holland, from where she returned in the same condition in which she left. A deep reconstruction - and in front of us in 2006 - a real treat. The photo was taken just in 2006 at the Goritsa pier. Unfortunately, after navigation in 2013, the ship was moved to Cherepovets for use as a hotel. And this is its purpose for the next 10 years.

32. Motor ship of project 92-016, "Sergey Kuchkin" on Valaam in 2006. Former name "Georgiy Dimitrov". Unfortunately, it did not work in the navigation of 2012, 2014. It will not work in the upcoming 2015 either.

33. Just as epoch-making objects, such as the works of V.I. Lenin, or a bust of himself, disappear from the props of old motor ships, motor ships change their names, change their insides, becoming more and more comfortable and meeting the requirements of modernity. And this is of course good. Better this than nothing. But sometimes you want to look back and remember how it was, right?

If you like it, tell me and I will continue ( enough for a post).

Four-deck motor ships are the largest and newest ships on the waters of Russia. For the most part, the comfort of these ships is an order of magnitude higher than their 2- and 3-deck counterparts. In particular, all cabins are equipped with bathrooms. Most of the 4-deck motor ships serve foreign tourists on the route Moscow - St. Petersburg. Some ships serve only Russian tourists. But you can get a ticket for almost any ship, for example, for voyages at the beginning and end of navigation. In addition, many companies sell vouchers to Russian tourists on flights for foreigners, subject to availability. Usually such routes come with the caption “joint cruise with foreign tourists.” The advantages of such joint cruises are a high level of service, quieter behavior of fellow travelers, and the opportunity to practice communicating in a foreign language. Disadvantages - high cost of travel, prices for excursions, prices in bars, perhaps excursion service will only be in a foreign language.

The vast majority of 4-deck ships are operated by the largest tour operators:

• Vodokhod (Vodohod Moscow, Vodokhod St. Petersburg, VolgaTurFlot)
• Orthodox (mainly foreign tourists)
• Viking Cruises (foreign tourists only)
• Grand Circle (foreign tourists only)

The most common are motor ships of projects 301 and , which are jokingly called among river boaters “suitcases” because of their rectangular shape or “Germans” because they were produced in Germany. All cabins are equipped with bathrooms, but be prepared that a standard cabin is only slightly larger than a standard train compartment.

Project 92-016 motor ships are the largest passenger river vessels in Russia, with a length of 135.7 meters and a passenger capacity of 400 people. They are jokingly called “crocodiles,” apparently because of their size or sloping nose. As you might guess, such a number of passengers could not appear just like that. The ships of this project have very cramped cabins, especially single and double bunk cabins. One of the ships of this project is “Alexander Suvorov”, the same one that collided with the bridge in Ulyanovsk. 176 people died in that disaster. The ship was restored and operates as a cruise ship today.

Externally, “Germans” are easily distinguished from “crocodiles” by the number of pipes - motor ships of Project 301 and 302 have one pipe, motor ships of Project 92-016 have two pipes.

Motor ships of projects q-056 and q-040 were manufactured in Austria and are much less common on Russian rivers. In terms of comfort, Project q-040 motor ships with the original layout are somewhat inferior to their counterparts due to the fact that the cabins are not equipped with bathrooms. However, shipping companies are modernizing these vessels one after another.

Project q-056 motor ships "Anton Chekhov" and "Lev Tolstoy" until recently were considered the most comfortable on the Volga. In particular, at the stern of the ship there is an indoor swimming pool of decent size. However, time does not stand still. Travel agencies strive to satisfy the needs of the most solvent buyers, including those from the USA and Europe. Motor ships are being modernized one after another. Typically, such an upgrade involves increasing the cabin area to a standard hotel room of about 20 square meters, a reasonably sized bathroom, redesigning the stairwells (so that the angle of inclination is smaller for older tourists) or even installing elevators.

Motor ship "I.A.": description, photo, diagram

Three-deck motor ship “I.A. Krylov" Project 588 was built in Germany, equipped with modern navigation technology. With a length of 96.3 m, a draft of 2.45 m and a width of 14.3 m, it reaches a speed of 23.7 km/h. The engine power of the ship is 1200 hp. The ship has undergone partial reconstruction: the restaurant salon on the main deck has been increased to 110 seats, the interior of the cinema hall on the boat deck has been updated, and a bar has been equipped in the aft part of the ship's middle deck.

Double-deck motor ship "Borodino" of project 305. Built at shipyards in Hungary. In 1999, a major overhaul was carried out with a complete redevelopment and modernization of passenger cabins. After reconstruction, there were only 37 of them, all with amenities (shower, toilet, washbasin). On the middle deck: double single-tier cabins, on the main deck: two-, three- and four-berth cabins. The ship has two bow saloons, two restaurants (upper and lower), a cozy bar and a sauna. The shallow draft allows the vessel to travel along shallow rivers.

Motor ship " ": description, photographs

The three-deck motor ship of Project 588 was built in Germany and equipped with modern navigation technology. Reconstruction in 2002, general reconstruction in 2011