The ''Fyodor Shalyapin'' () (former Kliment Voroshilov) was a
''Valerian Kuybyshev''-class (
92-016,
OL400)
Soviet
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/
Russia
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n river
cruise ship
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, cruising in the
Volga
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basin. The ship was built by Slovenské Lodenice at their shipyard in
Komárno
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,
Czechoslovakia
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, and entered service in 1977. At 3,950 tonnes,
''Fyodor Shalyapin'' is one of the world's biggest river cruise ships. Her sister ships are ''
Valerian Kuybyshev
Valerian Vladimirovich Kuybyshev (; – 25 January 1935) was a Russian revolutionary, Red Army officer, and prominent Soviet politician.
Biography
Early years
Born in Omsk in Siberia on , Kuybyshev studied at the , a Cadet Corps in O ...
'', ''
Mikhail Frunze
Mikhail Vasilyevich Frunze (; ; 2 February 1885 – 31 October 1925) was a Soviet revolutionary, politician, army officer and military theory, military theorist.
Born to a Bessarabian father and a Russian mother in Russian Turkestan, Frunze at ...
'', ''
Feliks Dzerzhinskiy'', ''
Sergey Kuchkin'', ''
Mstislav Rostropovich
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'', ''
Aleksandr Suvorov
Count Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov-Rymniksky, Prince of Italy () was a Russian general and military theorist in the service of the Russian Empire.
Born in Moscow, he studied military history as a young boy and joined the Imperial Russian ...
'', ''
Semyon Budyonnyy'' and ''
Georgiy Zhukov
Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov ( 189618 June 1974) was a Soviet military leader who served as a top commander during World War II and achieved the rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union. During World War II, Zhukov served as deputy commander-in-ch ...
''. ''Fyodor Shalyapin'' was operated by
Vodohod
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, a
Russia
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n river cruise line. Her home port was
Nizhny Novgorod
Nizhny Novgorod ( ; rus, links=no, Нижний Новгород, a=Ru-Nizhny Novgorod.ogg, p=ˈnʲiʐnʲɪj ˈnovɡərət, t=Lower Newtown; colloquially shortened to Nizhny) is a city and the administrative centre of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast an ...
.
Features
The ship has two restaurants, three bars, solarium, sauna and resting area.
Информация о теплоходе
See also
* List of river cruise ships
This is a list of river cruise ships, both those in service and those that have since ceased to operate. As some river cruise ships have operated under multiple names, all names will be listed in the "Notes" section.
See also
* List of cruise ...
References
External links
Теплоход "Фёдор Шаляпин"
Project 92-016
Home page of the Fyodor Shalyapin
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1977 ships
River cruise ships
Ships built in Czechoslovakia