Volga-class motorship

The Volga class is a class of Russian river passenger ships.[7] It is named after the first ship in the class Volga, which in her turn was named after Volga River.

River cruise ship Dnipro at pier in Bratislava in 2011
Class overview
Builders:	Österreichische Schiffswerften AG, Korneuburg, Austria
Built:	1970
In service:	1970
Planned:	2
Building:	2
Completed:	2
Active:	2
General characteristics
Tonnage:	2,125[1] GT
Length:	105.9 m (347 ft)[2]
Beam:	16.1 m (53 ft)[3]
Draught:	1.65 m (5.4 ft)[4]
Decks:	3 passenger decks
Installed power:	2 × MWM TbD 440-8 1,324 kilowatts (1,776 hp)[5]
Propulsion:	2[6]
Speed:	26.2 km/h (16.3 mph; 14.1 kn)
Capacity:	212 passengers
Crew:	77

Three deck cruise ships built by Österreichische Schiffswerften AG at their shipyard in Korneuburg, Austria in 1970.[8]

River cruise ships of the Austrian project Q-031

Volga-class motorships
No.	Original name	English transliteration
1	Волга[9]	Volga
2	Днепр (Дніпро)[10]	Dnepr (Dnipro)

Overview

Volga class
Month and year of build	Hull No	Image	Name	Owner	Port of Registry	Flag	Status
1970	K687		Volga	Ukrainian Danube Shipping Company[11]	Izmail	→	RSU 2-601784[12][13] ENI 42000003
1970	K688		Dnipro	Ukrainian Danube Shipping Company	Izmail	→	RSU 2-601783[14][15] ENI 42000004

See also

• List of river cruise ships
• Valerian Kuybyshev-class motorship
• Rossiya-class motorship (1952)
• Rossiya-class motorship (1973)
• Anton Chekhov-class motorship
• Vladimir Ilyich-class motorship
• Rodina-class motorship
• Baykal-class motorship
• Sergey Yesenin-class motorship
• Oktyabrskaya Revolyutsiya-class motorship
• Yerofey Khabarov-class motorship
• Dunay-class motorship
• Amur-class motorship
• Dmitriy Furmanov-class motorship

References

1. Projekt Q-031: Ship drawings, technical data, list and photos (PDF, Naval architect Yevgeniy Leonidovich Smirnov' Library) (in Russian)
2. Project Q-031, Technical data
3. Project Q-031, Technical data
4. Project Q-031, Technical data
5. Project Q-031, Technical data
6. Projekt Q-031: Ship drawings, technical data, list and photos (PDF, Naval architect Yevgeniy Leonidovich Smirnov' Library) (in Russian)
7. Long voyage passenger ships (in Russian)
8. Specifications
9. Shipping Register of Ukraine, Vessel 2-601784 Archived 2013-11-26 at the Wayback Machine (in Ukrainian and English)
10. Shipping Register of Ukraine, Vessel 2-601783 Archived 2013-11-26 at the Wayback Machine (in Ukrainian and English)
11. Passenger Fleet
12. Shipping Register of Ukraine, Vessel 2-601784 Archived 2013-11-26 at the Wayback Machine (in Ukrainian and English)
13. Volga (in Russian)
14. Shipping Register of Ukraine, Vessel 2-601783 Archived 2013-11-26 at the Wayback Machine (in Ukrainian and English)
15. Дніпро (ранее Днепр) (in Russian)