Feliks Dzerzhinskiy (ship)

Feliks Dzerzhinskiy takes off from the quay in Moscow's Northern River port (2011)

The Feliks Dzerzhinskiy (Russian Феликс Дзержинский, German Felix Dzerzhinsky ) is a river cruise ship, built in 1978 in Czechoslovakia in the shipyard Narodny Podnik Škoda in Komárno. It is operated by Vodohod on the Volga. The ship is named after the founder and first head of the Cheka, the first Soviet Russia's secret police, Felix Dzerzhinsky.

Description

The ship with four passenger decks (today, then Slovenské Lodenice Komárno part of the Škoda group) built as Feliks Dzerzhinskiy for the Volga -Reederei Wolschskoje Parochodstwo in Nizhny Novgorod in 1978 at the Slovak shipyard Narodny Podnik Škoda in Komárno. She was one of a series produced from 1976 to 1983 of 9 ships of the type valeric Kuybyshev class, which also known as " Project 92-016 " or " OL400 " (Slovak: osobna iodine 400 - German: for 400 passengers ) was known. The Feliks Dzerzhinskiy has a diesel-electric drive with three main engines each 736 kW.

Use

The Feliks Dzerzhinskiy in 2011 by Vodohod on the Volga on the routes Moscow - Uglich operated - Nizhny Novgorod, Moscow - Pljos, Moscow - Kazan, Moscow - Myshkin, Moscow. Captain ( as of 2011) is Mikhail Kucherov ( Кучеров Михаил Павлович )

Equipment

All comfortable 1 -, 2 -, 3 -, 4 bed - DeLux cabins are equipped with air conditioning, shower and WC, 220 V connection and have large windows. DeLux and HalbDeLux cabins still have a fridge.

Are, inter alia, two restaurants, two bars, a kiosk, a conference room, music room, solarium on board.

See also

• List of cruise ships