Cruise different. Motor ships

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.

During a cruise along the Volga I was able to visit the most interesting places on the ship. I met the crew members, visited the control room and the engine room, asked a lot of questions and received the most detailed answers.
Now I invite you to see how the ship works.

2. Let’s get acquainted: the motor ship “Mikhail Bulgakov”, project 301. One of the most comfortable four-deck motor ships. Built in the GDR, recently modernized.
Length 125 m, width 16.7 m, height of the surface part 13.2 meters, maximum speed 26 km/h, maximum draft 3 m. The maximum passenger capacity of the ship is 307 people. The number of crew and maintenance personnel is 121 people.

3. It’s interesting, but a four-deck ship has five decks. There are no cabins on the upper deck.

4. One of the cabins. Some are more spacious, some are more compact. Each cabin has a shower, toilet, TV, refrigerator, air conditioning. Travel comfortably and conveniently. I won’t talk in detail about the restaurants, swimming pool and other delights; those interested can read about life on a cruise.

5. Let's go up to the control room of the ship. The crew in the control room is at least two people; there is an increased watch at night: three people. Now it’s the shift of Alexey Bashirov, the second mate.

6. There is a gorgeous view from the wheelhouse.

7. Three engines of 1000 horsepower each operate in full speed mode. Now the speed is about 21 km/h, but if the water level were higher, the speed would be about 25 km/h.

8. In addition to instruments, such an atlas helps to navigate. Atlases are regularly updated, as the condition of the bottom and shores may change.

9. We walk along the Rybinsk Reservoir.

10. The captain does not have a helm in the form in which we are used to seeing them in pictures. The controls have changed, although the essence remains the same.

11. The control of the ship is duplicated on the left and right. This was done for better visibility in difficult areas, when mooring, and so on.

12. View from the left side of the wheelhouse.

13. The entire route of the ship is planned literally minute by minute.

14. The ship uses instruments of different generations.

15. This is an old, but reliable and proven compass.

17. We pass by Myshkin. When passing standing ships, the ship slows down to reduce the waves. If this is not done, the mooring lines of standing ships may be cut off.

18. The navigator on a ship is very similar to a car.

19. The design of the ship is very successful. It can walk not only along rivers and canals, but also along the sea in the coastal zone. But to work at sea you need to study additionally; the conditions there are more severe.

20. Documentation corner. Everything about the ship is described here.

21. In addition to the three main engines, the ship has a thruster. Thanks to it, the ship can move sideways right on the spot. Electric thruster. A very convenient invention.

22. Main workplace.

23. When operating a ship, captains communicate with each other via radio. We disperse on the left sides.

24. As I already mentioned, when we were in the wheelhouse, the second mate was on duty. We saw Captain Vladimir Nozrenkov a little later in full dress at the captain's dinner.

25. Now let's go down to the very bottom, to the engine room. I'll warn you right away: it's very noisy here.

26. When we go to the engines, we definitely need to wear these headphones.

27. The technical facilities on the ship are very rich. It is necessary to store fuel, water, oil, in addition to this there is also waste.


Details for those interested: the fuel reserve on the ship is 180 tons, this is enough for about three weeks of travel.
In addition, there are 100 tons of untreated and 28 tons of purified water on board. The water is purified directly on board using a special installation. Usually they fill up with water at parking lots, but if necessary, you can take water directly from the river in special areas.

28. The engine room, apart from the strong noise, is quite comfortable. The temperature is not higher than 35 degrees. In the old ships it was up to 72 degrees Celsius.

29. The ship has four diesel generators that provide electricity to all systems. Air conditioning and ventilation consume a lot of energy. Each diesel generator has a power of 700 horsepower.

30. Diesel generators were built in the GDR. The total power of the generators will provide electricity to a city population of several thousand people.

31. The main engines of the ship were built in the USSR. The engines have six cylinders, fuel consumption at full speed is 150 kilograms of fuel per hour. Fuel is supplied by tankers, most often from Yaroslavl.
Marine low-viscosity fuel (LMV) is used in the operation of marine engines. These engines can run on diesel and even fuel oil; for this purpose there is a special installation for heating the fuel oil. Diesel generators are more demanding.

32. The cooling system is interestingly designed. The engine oil is cooled by water, which is cooled by sea water. In this way, the ship heats the water around it.

33. Several people are constantly on duty in the engine room.

34. After the recent modernization of automation, there is more automation in the engine room.

35. A little about waste. There are quite a few of them: more than 300 passengers and more than 100 crew members use the sewer. Fecal water is accumulated in special containers, the maximum volume is 470 tons. Previously, there were areas where it was possible to discharge fecal water, but now this cannot be done. During stops, specialized vessels approach the ships and pick up waste. In the Northern River Port these are “Mars” and “Jupiter”. These same ships take back water from the engine room - water with residual oil and fuel.

36. Now you know almost everything about how a motor ship works. Thank you for your attention!

Thank you for the excursion company "

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.

Let's listen to him: " The largest river vessels.)" So everything is succinct...

One of the oldest methods of transporting cargo is river transportation. Previously, some cargo that could float could be transported by rafting; they were simply dumped into the river and caught downstream. Today, river transportation of goods is carried out using a developed network of river transport. Although the entire territory of Russia is penetrated by large and small rivers, river freight turnover is only 4% of the total freight turnover in the country.

There are quite a lot of types of goods transported along rivers, and, basically, these are goods that do not require fast or urgent delivery. Such cargoes include grains, oil products, fuel (coal, coke), building materials (for example, river sand with delivery), that is, bulk and liquid cargo. However, river vessels can transport goods in small containers and containers, however, this depends on the type of vessel and its capacity.

All river vessels can be divided into twoe large categories:

1. Vessels equipped with an engine, that is, self-propelled. This includes motor ships, steamships, boats, motor boats, etc.
2. Vessels without an engine, that is, non-self-propelled. These are primarily cargo barges, as well as pontoons and other structures.

The main type of self-propelled vessel is a bulk carrier. Bulk carriers transport cargo in a hold located inside the ship's hull. As the name implies, dry cargo ships carry cargo that is not desirable to be exposed to moisture, which is why dry cargo ships are equipped with special hatches.

Among dry cargo ships, there are three types of vessels:

1. Roller (ro-ro). This vessel is equipped with vertical loading; it transports cars and other equipment. Cars can enter the ship under their own power through folding bow ramps.
2. Bulk carrier. This type of vessel is designed for the transportation of bulk, non-packaged (and sometimes liquid) cargo. For example, if the cargo is river sand for delivery, then most likely it will be delivered on a bulk carrier.
3. Bulk bulk carrier. Such bulk carriers transport various types of liquid cargo, such as oil, ammonia, liquid fuel, etc.

If we talk about non-self-propelled vessels, the leader here is the cargo barge. There are several types of barges:

• Bilge (closed and open),
• Areas for bulk transportation,
• Tents,
• Self-unloading,
• Car carriers,
• Cement tankers,
• And others.

However, all these types belong to dry cargo barges; there are also liquid barges.

Advantages of river transport

1. River transportation of goods has a fairly low cost, and this is a big plus for customers. Low cost is possible due to the low speed of transportation and the presence of currents on the rivers.
2. There is no need to build and, accordingly, repair transport routes, as is done for road and rail transport.

Disadvantages of river transport

1. Paradoxically, what provides the main advantage is the main disadvantage. We are talking about the low speed of river vessels and, accordingly, long delivery times.
2. Relatively weak capabilities in relation to transportation volumes.
3. Pronounced seasonality of transportation associated with short navigation. In other words, in winter the rivers freeze and ships are laid up.
4. The different depths and widths of rivers in different places and the sizes of vessels impose additional restrictions on transportation.

The largest displacement belongs to the Volgo-Don vessel and is 5000 tons.

Volgo-Don - river dry cargo ships designed for transporting bulk cargo (coal, ore, grain, crushed stone, etc.) along large inland waterways. Built from 1960 to 1990, one of the most massive series of Soviet river vessels (in total, up to 225 ships of various series were built).

During construction, the vessels were repeatedly modified:

Projects 507 and 507A - first modifications, open hold-bunker without bulkheads

Project 507B - machines with lower power were installed (1800 hp instead of 2000 hp)

Projects 1565, 1565M - closed holds, modern superstructure

Project 1566 is a composite vessel that had a self-propelled part and a non-self-propelled barge attachment.

Open holds. The only ship was built in 1966 under the name “XXIII Congress of the CPSU”.

A further development of the project was the Volzhsky type motor ships. In the 1990s, some vessels of the Volgo-Don type were reconstructed into the river-sea type, which allowed them to enter inland seas and make voyages, for example, to the UK.

The reconstructed ships are shorter, have a higher bow and more advanced hold equipment. Vessels of projects 507, 507A, 507B and 1566 were built at the Navashinsky shipyard "Oka", Pr.1565 and 1565M - there and at the Santierul Navale Oltenita plant, Romania.

Structurally, the vessels are motor ships with a carrying capacity of 5000-5300 tons (Project 1566 - 10,000 tons with an attachment) with open or closed holds.

The length of the vessels is 138-140 m, width 16.6-16.7 m, draft 3.5-3.6 m. Main engine power 1800-2000 hp, light speed 21-23 km/h. Vessels of the Volga-Don type have been actively used and continue to be used on the Volga, Kama, Don, Volga-Baltic water system, on the Dnieper, as well as on the Yenisei below the Kazachinsky rapids. Since the 1990s, many ships, especially reconstructed ones, have been sailing in the Azov, Black, Caspian and Baltic seas.

PROJECT RSD44

The implementation of the project for the construction of a series of RSD-44 ships is carried out under a leasing scheme for state support of domestic shipbuilding: joint financing by the state-owned United Shipbuilding Corporation (85%) and the future owner of the ships - Volga Shipping Company (15%) on the terms of state subsidies 2/3 refinancing rates of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation.

The carrying capacity of the RSD44 project vessels in comparison with the Volgo-Don bulk carriers is 500 tons higher and amounts to 5.5 thousand tons; At the same time, the overall height of the new ships is 8 meters (almost 2 times lower). The ships will be fully automated and equipped with modern rudder propellers, providing high maneuverability and good controllability.

The bulk carrier "Captain Ruzmankin" was laid down at the Okskaya Shipyard on February 24, 2010 and delivered to the customer in 2011 after sea trials. The ship is named after the Volga captain Pyotr Fedorovich Ruzmankin, who died at Stalingrad in 1942.

Multi-purpose dry cargo vessel with a deadweight of 5458 tons of the "Volgo-Don max" class

The dry cargo vessel "Volgo-Don max" of the RSD44 class "Captain Yurov" made a unique voyage from Ladoga to the Southern port of Moscow with a cargo of crushed stone. At the first stage, the ship took on board 5,400 tons of cargo; upon arrival at the Northern Port, part of the cargo was loaded. Having on board 3680 tons of crushed stone and a draft of 2.80 m, the “Captain Yurov”, having a length of 140 m, passed along the Moscow River with its small radii of curvature of the ship passage under low-size Moscow bridges (overwater clearance 8.6 m) to the South Port.

The ship "Captain Yurov" was built at the Oka Shipyard (director Vladimir Kulikov): laying down on 12/28/10, launching on 10/14/11, delivered on 11/18/11.

During the 2012 navigation season, Volga Shipping Company OJSC (director Alexander Shishkin) launched all ten vessels of the new series at once.

The series can be called “the series named after the Heroes of Stalingrad” - all ten captains of the Volga Shipping Company, in whose honor and memory the ships of the RSD44 project are named, gave their lives defending their Motherland in the battles for Stalingrad.

It should be noted that the series of vessels of the RSD44 project set a record not only for the speed of construction, but also for deadweight in the river with a draft of 3.60 m (5540 tons based on the results of inclining the lead vessel and weighing the second) and speed during testing (average speed along the current and against the current during sea trials of the lead vessel was more than 12 knots).

The RSD44 project was developed by the Marine Engineering Bureau.

Class of the Russian River Register - + M-PR 2.5 (ice 20) A.

New dry-cargo vessels of the RSD44 "Volga Max" class class (length according to the waterline 138.9 m, width 16.5 m, side height 5.0 m, coaming height 2.20 m) are intended for transportation along the inland waterways of the Russian Federation of general, bulk, timber and large cargo, grain, lumber, potash and mineral fertilizers, sulfur, coal, paper, building materials, metal products, as well as up to 140 containers.

The deadweight of the vessel with a draft of 3.60 m in the river is about 5543 tons, with a draft of 3.53 m at sea - 5562 tons. The volume of cargo holds is 7090 cubic meters. m.

The operation of vessels is also envisaged along the Volga-Don Shipping Canal (VDSK), the Volga-Baltic Canal, in the Sea of ​​Azov to the port of Caucasus and in the Gulf of Finland. Passage under the Nevsky Bridges in the area of ​​St. Petersburg and under the Rostov Railway Bridge (Rostov-on-Don) is supposed to be carried out without their wiring (maximum surface clearance when passing under the bridges is 5.4 m).

The dimensions of the RSD44 project (overall length 139.99 m, overall width 16.80 m) make it possible to ensure the operation of ships through the VDSK, including through the “old” branch of the Kochetovsky lock without the “special wiring” mode.

Double bottom and double sides along the entire length of the “box” cargo holds (hold dimensions: hold N1 37.8 m x 13.2 x 6.22 m, hold N2 49.8 m x 13.2 x 6.22 m) and fuel, oil and waste tanks make it possible to ensure the convenience of loading and unloading cargo, high operational reliability of the vessel, and also guarantee environmental protection and reduce the risks associated with environmental pollution in the area where the vessel is operating.

The propulsion system consists of two full-rotary rudder propellers, combining the properties of propulsion devices and controls in a single complex, which can significantly improve the maneuverability of the vessel in cramped river conditions. The vessel is equipped with two medium-speed diesel engines, each with a power of 1200 kW, running on heavy fuel.

The hull shape of the vessels, made as technologically advanced as possible to ensure low cost of hull work, is at the same time sufficiently seaworthy and optimal in terms of fuel consumption for the given operating conditions in the M-PR river class, providing an operational speed of 10.5 knots.

To ensure sufficient visibility of the water surface from the vessel's steering position, the wheelhouse is located at the bow end of the vessel. When passing through narrow passages and locks, the vessel is controlled from onboard control panels installed on the open deck on each side in the wheelhouse area.

The vessels are equipped with a 120 kW propeller-in-tube bow thruster.

Due to the need to ensure the passage of ships under the Nevsky Bridges and the Rostov Railway Bridge without their wiring, single-tier residential deckhouses are provided in the stern of the ships.

The ships provide all the necessary conditions for a comfortable stay of the crew on board, including a developed climate control system and the use of anti-vibration and anti-noise coatings indoors.

The crew is 8 people, the captain and chief engineer are accommodated in block cabins, the rest in single cabins.

It is interesting to note that, according to the proposal of the Volga Shipping Company, the total number of seats is 16, which will allow taking on board cadets, specialists performing equipment maintenance, as well as members of the crew’s families (wives). The latter can be a serious advantage when selecting personnel to work on a new series.

The market demand for transport services of inland water transport will not be able to be satisfied in 5-10 years due to the rapid aging and prospect of decommissioning of the fleet. The railway will also not be able to cope with the growing demand in the transport market, since it is already operating at the limit of its carrying capacity. In this regard, the problem of updating the river dry cargo fleet by building new river vessels of the “Volga Max” class to replace vessels of the “Volgo-Don” and “Volzhsky” types (in total there are 161 such vessels in Russia’s GDP, and the vessels of Project 507B have average age is about 37 years, project 1565 - 33 years, project 05074M - 22 years).

The deadweight of the vessel, project RSD44, with a draft of 3.60 m in the river, is 7% higher than that of the newest existing vessels of the Volzhsky type (project 05074M).

The surface dimension in ballast of the proposed vessel is only 5.4 m (even less when loaded), which will allow it, unlike the Volzhsky, to pass under bridges across the Neva River and under the Rostov railway bridge without raising them. As a result, the vessel will save time waiting in line for bridge construction, which amounts to up to 20 days per navigation.

The volume of cargo holds of the RSD44 project is 21% larger than that of the Volzhsky, which will allow it not only to transport large-sized cargo, but also to significantly increase the load when transporting “light” cargo - barley, sunflower seeds, cotton, scrap metal and large-diameter pipes and etc.

With the same length and width, the dry cargo vessel pr. RSD44 has a lower side height, as a result of which its module is 8% smaller than that of Volzhsky type vessels, which will save up to 8% of the total costs for port and navigation fees.

Thus, the RSD44 project vessels, serially built by the Okskaya Shipyard, represent a unique engineering complex that combines optimal dimensions for inland waterways with modern equipment and navigation technology, which has significant advantages over existing analogues.

The first vessel of the RSD44 project, “Captain Ruzmankin,” was laid down on 02.24.10. Launched 11/23/10. Put into operation on 05/20/11.
The second vessel of the RSD44 project, “Captain Zagryadtsev,” was laid down on April 27, 2010. Launched 04/12/11. Put into operation on 06/16/11.
The third vessel of the RSD44 project, “Captain Krasnov,” was laid down on June 26, 2010. Launched 05/05/11. Put into operation on 07/14/11.
The fourth vessel of the RSD44 project, “Captain Gudovich,” was laid down on August 26, 2010. Launched 05/27/11. Put into operation on 08/10/11.
The fifth vessel of the RSD44 project, “Captain Sergeev,” was laid down on September 29, 2010. Launched 07/15/11. Put into operation 09/07/11.
The sixth vessel of the RSD44 project, “Captain Kadomtsev,” was laid down on November 29, 2010. Launched 08/16/11. Put into operation on 10.10.11.
The seventh vessel of the RSD44 project, “Captain Afanasyev,” was laid down on December 28, 2010. Launched 09/14/11. Put into operation on 11/10/11.
The eighth vessel of the RSD44 project, “Captain Yurov,” was laid down on December 28, 2010. Launched 10/14/11. Put into operation on 11/18/11.
The ninth vessel of the RSD44 project, “Captain Shumilov,” was laid down on 05/05/11. Launched 11/22/11. Put into operation on 04/29/12.
The tenth vessel of the RSD44 project, “Captain Kanatov,” was laid down on June 22, 2011. Launched 01/18/12. Put into operation on 04/29/12.

(data as of September 2012)

The vessels were built under a leasing scheme, according to which 85% of the funds were provided by the United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) as part of state support for domestic shipbuilding, and 15% was financed by the Volga Shipping Company. The terms of the scheme are that the state subsidizes 2/3 of the refinancing rate of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation.

And we move on to passenger ships:

River passenger ships of Project 92-016 are large passenger ships designed for river cruises. This project is unique in that motor ships 92-016 are the largest river cruise ships in the world. The construction of Project 92-016 ships for our country was carried out at the Czechoslovakian shipyard “Slovenske Lodenice Komarno” in the city of Komarno. During construction, it was planned that motor ships of this project would replace motor ships of Project 26-37 on the “fast” Volga lines. The lead motor ship of project 92-016 “Valerian Kuibyshev” was laid down on the stocks in 1975. Construction of the series continued until 1983; a total of 9 motor ships of Project 92-016 were built.

The motor ships of project 92-016 delivered by the shipyard were placed at the disposal of the Volga and Don Shipping Company (the ship of the Don Shipping Company had a serious accident in 1983, after which it also entered the balance of the Volga Shipping Company). The vessels were operated on the Volga tourist routes. Today, most of the ships are used in the North-Western cruise direction; they make flights between Moscow and St. Petersburg, and short cruises from St. Petersburg. Some ships operate on the Volga tourist routes from Nizhny Novgorod and Samara, along the Volga, Don, Kama and the Volga-Baltic waterway. Initially, the design for the ships included one-, two-, three-berth cabins, each equipped with an individual bathroom, the premises of two restaurants, a cafe, salons and a cinema hall with a sliding roof.

During the operation of the ships, modernization was carried out on almost all ships: the salons were transformed into bars, the cinema rooms on the sun deck were converted into bars and conference rooms. The cabins were partially remodeled; on some ships the number of luxury and semi-luxury cabins was increased by combining several standard cabins into one. To operate in the North-West direction (Lake Ladoga and Onega), the ships are equipped with a large number of life-saving equipment (life rafts) to meet the requirements of class “M”.

Main technical characteristics of vessels of project 92-016: Vessel length: 135.8 m Vessel width: 16.8 m Vessel height (from the main line): 16.1 m Number of passenger decks: 4 Average speed: 24-26 km/h Number of main engines: 3 Power of each engine: 1000 l/s River Register class: “O” (inland waterways, rivers and reservoirs, passage through Lakes Ladoga and Onega with limited height and wavelength)

List of vessels of project 92-016

Motor ship "Alexander Suvorov"
Motor ship "Valerian Kuibyshev"
Motor ship "Georgy Zhukov"
Motor ship "Mstislav Rostropovich" (before the fire and reconstruction by Mikhail Kalilin)
Motor ship "Mikhail Frunze"
Motor ship "Semyon Budyonny"
Motor ship "Sergey Kuchkin"
Motor ship "Fedor Chaliapin"
Motor ship "Felix Dzerzhinsky"

And the longest ship in this series Motor ship Valerian Kuibyshev- four-deck vessel of project 92-016. Built in 1975 in the Czech Republic. It has a length of 137.5 m. A distinctive feature of the ship is the absence of passenger cabins on the lower deck.

Speed ​​– 24-26 km/h. Passenger capacity – 321 people.

But there is also a ship that can compete with our project:

The American rear-wheel cruise ship American Queen (built in 1995) is superior to Project 92-016 vessels in the following parameters:
Width - 27.2 m
Height - 29.7 m (primarily due to high “traditional” chimneys, but the number of passenger decks is also greater than on 92-016 - 5 decks plus a sixth promenade)
Number of passenger cabins - 222
Number of beds - 436

Mark Twain named wheeled steamships, floating down the mighty Mississippi River as "floating wedding cakes." At the end of the 20th century, a ship appeared that became the largest wheeled steamship in the history of shipbuilding. Although it is carefully hidden, but vessel literally packed with surprises river cruise. This modern steamship, whose roots are hidden in the past. 150 years after dawn steamships on the Mississippi River, " American Queen"gives its passengers a unique vision of the world.

January 5th, 2011 , 05:53 pm

Here I will post a variety of photographs from different cruises that I have been on. The first selection will be dedicated to motor ships.

No. 1. Morning on deck. Motor ship "Gleb Krzhizhanovsky", Svir River.

No. 2. Dry cargo ship "Totma" (type "Sixth Five-Year Plan") in the lock of the Volga-Baltic Canal.

No. 3. Passenger ship "Pallada" on the Volga near the city of Myshkin.

No. 4. Passenger ships "Gleb Krzhizhanovsky", "Peter the First" and "Maxim Rylsky" on the green parking lot of Mandrogi, Svir River. “Gleb Krzhizhanovsky” is the youngest Moscow motor ship, no longer makes cruises, it is now a hostel in the Kurmangazy oil and gas field. "Maxim Rylsky" changed its operator and name - now the ship is called "Mikhail Bulgakov" (Mosturflot).

No. 5. River pusher motor ship "Shlyuzovoy-125" with an attachment loaded with sand. Volga, near the city of Myshkin.


No. 6. Noses. Motor ships "Vladimir Monomakh", "October Revolution" and "Yuri Nikulin" at the pier in the city of Ples. “Vladimir Monomakh” changed his name and gender, now he is called “Anna Akhmatova”.

No. 7. Passenger diesel-electric ship "Ukraine" (project 785) at the pier of the river station in Samara. During the 2010 navigation season, the diesel-electric ship was renamed “Bulgaria” and operated by the Vodaflot cruise company.

No. 8. Passenger ship "Sergey Yesenin" (pr. Q -065) Austrian construction on the Pestovskoye reservoir in the Moscow region. Two Moscow twins of the Yesenin, the motor ships Alexander Blok and Valery Bryusov, became floating casinos in the center of the capital.

No. 9. Passenger ship "Caesar" in the Northern Port of Moscow. Before receiving its “salad” name, this ship was named “Ernst Thälmann”.

No. 10. The high-speed hydrofoil motor ship "Raketa-191" on the Moscow Canal ("deep notch"). For a long time, this “Rocket” bore the number 244, until the real “Rocket-191” had an accident.

No. 11. Dry cargo ship-platform "Oksky-10" with a load of crushed stone in the approach channel of lock No. 1 of the Moscow Canal in Dubna.

No. 12. Not very white and beautiful, but also a very useful ship. Waste collector MS-2 on the Moscow Canal in a “deep excavation”. In the background is the passenger ship "Ryleev".

No. 13. Passenger ship "Ivan Kulibin" (project 26-37) on the Volga in the Balakhna area. The ship is on a flight from Astrakhan to Moscow. Here it is still in the traditional blue color. Very soon, the Gama cruise company, which owns 6 ships, will repaint its ships green.

No. 14. Also a cruise fleet, although for individual cruises. This is such beauty on the Moscow Canal, completely new. The name is closed.

No. 15. Yacht on the Svir River.

No. 16. High-speed hydrofoil motor ship "Kometa-2" in the Kizhi skerries. The motor ship operates flights between Kizhi Island and Petrozavodsk along Lake Onega.

No. 17. Pleasure motor ship "Moskvich" - M-250 in Kalyazin. This ship takes tourists to the island to the flooded bell tower of St. Nicholas Cathedral.

No. 18. Dry cargo ship "Galats" (project "Sixth Five-Year Plan") in the approach channel of the lock in Uglich. The ship is equipped with stops for pushing the attachment. In general, it is a pity that these hard workers of the river are retiring. Most ships of this type have already been decommissioned.

No. 19. Dry cargo ship-platform "Oksky-70" on the Volga River in Yaroslavl.

No. 20. Tanker "Volgoneft-262" at the berth of the Nizhnesvirsky lock.

No. 21. Tanker "Volgoneft-266" in ballast (empty) on the Volga near Yaroslavl.

No. 22. River pusher motor ship "Shlyuzovoy-28" without a prefix near the city of Bor, Nizhny Novgorod region.

No. 23. Here is such a nice yacht “Grand-NN.” I don’t know what it’s made from. The Volga is not far from Saratov.

No. 24. River passenger ship "Arabella". During the 2010 navigation, the ship was idle due to engine failure and lack of passengers. "Arabella" was sold to Kazan, most likely the ship will change its name.

No. 25. River passenger motor ship "Lenin" on Lake Onega. It’s amazing how lucky he was, despite all the troubles and changes in priorities in the country, to never change his name.

No. 26. River passenger ship "Cosmonaut Gagarin" on the Kovzha River. The ship was performing an unusual voyage to St. Petersburg with a 3-day stop in St. Petersburg. At this time, tourists were offered a cruise on a sea ferry to Helsinki and Stockholm.

No. 27. Regular motor ship "Moscow-213" in Kinemsha. Here this ship operates commuter flights.

No. 28. Another “Moscow” is “Moskva-89” (Capital Shipping Company) at the Gorki pier on the Klyazminskoye Reservoir.

No. 29. The motor ship "Enchanted Wanderer" passes by the flooded Kalyazinskaya bell tower of St. Nicholas Cathedral.

No. 30. The motor ship "Nikolai Shchors" (now "Mikhail Tanich") in Kostroma.

No. 31. The passenger ship "Semyon Budyonny" set off on a voyage from Samara.

No. 32. Passenger ships leave lock No. 4 on the Moscow Canal.

No. 33. The motor ship "Kronstadt" departs from Kizhi Island.

No. 34. Motor ships "Nikolai Shchors" and "Ryleev" in the chamber of lock No. 6 of the Moscow Canal.

No. 35. Motor ship "Aldan" on the Middle Volga near Cheboksary. Like other ships of the Gama company, it has now been repainted green.

No. 36. The motor ship "President" departs from Yaroslavl.

No. 37. Motor ships "Alexander Fadeev" and "Grigory Pirogov" at the pier in Kineshma.

No. 38. Passenger motor ship "Alexander Radishchev" (Vodohod) on the Moscow Canal in a "deep recess". Heading to Moscow.

No. 39. The motor ship "Ryleev" enters under the Oktyabrskaya Railway bridge in Khimki.

No. 40. The motor ship "Grigory Pirogov" at the pier in Kalyazin.

No. 41. The motor ship "Alexander Fadeev" on the Volga near Plyos.

No. 42. Motor ship "Mikhail Sholokhov" on the Volga near Uglich. Heading to Moscow.

No. 43. Motor ship "A.S. Popov" on the route St. Petersburg - Valaam - St. Petersburg under the cable-stayed bridge of the Ring Road of St. Petersburg.

No. 44. “Relaxation on river vessels is a guarantee of health and good mood.” Soviet poster.