Baykal-class motorship
 River cruise ship Korolenko as hotel in Vyborg
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| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Builders | VEB Warnowwerft Warnemünde, Warnemünde, East Germany |
| Built | 1953-1956 |
| Planned | 15 |
| Completed | 15 |
| Active | 3 |
| General characteristics | |
| Tonnage | 1,091 GT[1] |
| Displacement | 774 t |
| Length | 65.2 m (214 ft) |
| Beam | 12 m (39 ft) |
| Draught | 2.22 m (7.3 ft) |
| Decks | 2 passenger decks |
| Installed power | 2 × 6NVD48 588 kilowatts (789 hp) |
| Propulsion | 2 |
| Speed | 25.5 km/h (15.8 mph; 13.8 kn) |
| Capacity | 197 passengers |
| Crew | 40 |
Baykal class is a class of Russian river passenger ships.[2] It is named after Baikal.
Two-deck cargo-passenger ships were built by VEB Warnowwerft Warnemünde, at their shipyard in Warnemünde, in East Germany in 1953–1956.[2]
River cruise ships of the project 646
[edit]| Baykal-class motorships | ||
|---|---|---|
| No. | Original name | English transliteration |
| 1 | Байкал (Академик Киренский) | Baykal (Akademik Kirenskiy) |
| 2 | Иссык-Куль (40 лет ВЛКСМ, Капитан Пономарев) | Issyk-Kul (40 let VLKSM, Kapitan Ponomarev) |
| 3 | Балхаш (Профессор Близняк, Близняк) | Balkhash (Professor Bliznyak, Bliznyak) |
| 4 | Онега | Onega |
| 5 | Севан (Герой Ю. Гагарин, Господин Великий Новгород) | Sevan (Geroy Yu. Gagarin, Gospodin Velikiy Novgorod) |
| 6 | Ладога (Ladoga) | Ladoga (Ladoga) |
| 7 | Короленко | Korolenko |
| 8 | Ленинский Комсомол | Leninskiy Komsomol |
| 9 | Белинский | Belinskiy |
| 10 | Радищев (Красногвардеец, Сергей Орлов) | Radishchev (Krasnogvardeets, Sergey Orlov) |
| 11 | Чернышевский | Chernyshevskiy |
| 12 | Механик Кулибин | Mekhanik Kulibin |
| 13 | Механик Калашников | Mekhanik Kalashnikov |
| 14 | Сергеев-Ценский (Родина) | Sergeev-Tsenskiy (Rodina) |
| 15 | Мамин-Сибиряк | Mamin-Sibiryak |
See also
[edit]- Rossiya-class motorship (1952)
- Rossiya-class motorship (1973)
- Dmitriy Furmanov-class motorship
- Valerian Kuybyshev-class motorship
- Rodina-class motorship
- Anton Chekhov-class motorship
- Maksim Gorkiy-class motorship
- Sergey Yesenin-class motorship
- Oktyabrskaya Revolyutsiya-class motorship
- Yerofey Khabarov-class motorship
References
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- ^ Project 646 (in Russian)
- ^ a b Project 646
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