''Khersones'' or ''Chersones'' is a

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n three-mast

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, a

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. It was built in 1989 in

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, in a series of six sister ships (among which also the

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), after the designs of

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. The ship is named after the city of

Chersonesus Chersonesus, contracted in medieval Greek to Cherson (), was an Greeks in pre-Roman Crimea, ancient Greek Greek colonization, colony founded approximately 2,500 years ago in the southwestern part of the Crimean Peninsula. Settlers from He ...

an ancient city and archaeological site near

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. She partakes in many

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. In 1997, it became the first Ukrainian ship to sail around

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by only using her sails. From 1991 to 2006 ''Khersones'' was a training ship for the Admiral Ushakov Maritime State University in

Kerch Kerch, also known as Keriç or Kerich, is a city of regional significance on the Kerch Peninsula in the east of Crimea. It has a population of Founded 2,600 years ago as the Colonies in antiquity#Greek colonies, ancient Greek colony Pantik ...

. At the same time, it was rented to the tourism company ''Inmaris Maritime Service GmbH'' as a cruise ship. This agreement was terminated in 2006 as ''Inmaris'' accused the Ukrainian side of refusing to pay for repairs that ''Inmaris'' had ordered, and to avoid an arrest on the vessel, it was then moved permanently to the docks in the Port of Kerch. After the

Russian occupation of Crimea On 27 February 2014, Little green men (Russo-Ukrainian War), unmarked Russian soldiers were deployed to the Crimea, Crimean Peninsula in order to wrest control of it from Ukraine, starting the Russo-Ukrainian War. * * * * * * * This military o ...

in 2014, the ship was seized by Russian authorities. A dispute over control of the ship began between the Federal Agency for Fishery of Russia and the

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, with the Ministry gaining the upper hand with its subsidiary ''FGUP Rosmorport''. In 2015 the ship traveled to the Sevastopol Shipyard for repairs, and later made its home port in the city due to the construction of the

Crimean Bridge The Crimean Bridge (, ; ), also called Kerch Strait Bridge or Kerch Bridge, is a pair of parallel bridges, one for a four-lane road and one for a double-track railway, spanning the Kerch Strait between the Taman Peninsula of Krasnodar Krai in ...

near Kerch. Khersones took part in "SCF Black Sea Tall Ships Regatta – 2016".Парусник «Херсонес» примет участие в первой после капитального ремонта регате
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ship's data (in German) with photos, Inmaris Maritime Service

Tall ships of Russia Windjammers Training ships Three-masted ships 1989 ships Individual sailing vessels Ships built in Gdańsk Ships of the Soviet Union Poland–Soviet Union relations Full-rigged ships Ships of Ukraine Ships of Russia {{Ship-stub

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