Vladimir Ilyich-class motorship

The Saint-Petersburg, ex Vladimir Ilyich

The river cruise ships of Vladimir Ilyich - class, which as Project 301 or BIFA 125 M ( German: inland passenger ship 125 meters) were known, river and channel common inland passenger motor ships of large dimensions. It was named after the Communist politician and Marxist theoretician Lenin, whose real name was Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov. He is considered the founder of the Soviet Union.

History

The river cruise ship series was produced from 1974 to 1983 in the GDR. The VEB Elbewerft Boizenburg / Rosslau in Boizenburg built ships own design, as in the USSR lacked appropriate architectural culture, confirmed in 1973 by MinRechFlot, three No. 1 to 6; 7 to 16; 17 to 22 easily by external design distinctive series. With 22 units built, the guy is one of the most successful designs of this kind, the naming was rather unsystematic. After the siblings followed Lenin's Soviet Ukraine in 1976, although the siblings were not all. Furthermore, came the XXV. Congress of the CPSU from the stack, then followed by famous persons of the Tsarist Russian Empire and semi- capitalist. The ships were used by North West ( Северо - Западное ), Volga ( Волжское ), Moskva ( Московское ) Belomor Onega ( Беломоро - Онежское ), Volga-Don ( Волго - Донское ), Kama ( Камское ) and Amur ( Амурское ) flow lines ( речное пароходство ) in Russia and Dnepr -Reederei ( Днепровское пароходство ) in Ukraine mainly on internal services of the rivers Volga, Kama, Don, Dnieper and Amur. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the ships are falling into the hands of Russian and foreign private companies.

Technology

The individual vessels vary, depending on the variant, with smaller differences in the size of the ship, the equipment with different engine types and other features, with whom they were matched to the respective application. The ships have been completely modernized and rebuilt for new relationships as Tikhi Don of the U.S. company Grand Circle Cruise Line, the number of passenger seats was reduced considerably. The ships have a diesel drive with 3 Soviet four-stroke main engines 6ЧРН 36/45 ( ЭГ70 -5) with turbocharger.

The hulls of the individual series differ by external elements such as wrong board, window shape (rectangular or rounded), light on wheelhouse. The third series got stronger bow thrusters and had no gold stripes laterally from the names on board.

The ships were and in the construction of single and double cabins 1 -, 2 - and 3- bed cabins, all provided with washing facilities. Above and beyond are two restaurants and two community rooms. The multi-bed cabins were modernized later, which led to a reduction in passenger capacity and increased travel comfort. Dockgewicht 3063 t.

List of Ships Project 301 in the country of origin and English language

In the list of the original name of the river cruise ship is specified, the other names are in parentheses in chronological order:

River cruise ships of the project 301:

Survey

Pictures

On the sun deck of the St. Petersburg