Cruise ship Dmitriy Pozharskiy
Class overview
Name	Rodina class
Built	1954–1961
Planned	49
Completed	49
General characteristics
Type	Passenger ship
Displacement	1.460 t (I), 1.492 t (II without refrigerator) and 1.506 t (II)[1]
Length	95.8 m (314 ft)[2]
Beam	14.3 m (47 ft)
Draught	2.4 m (7.9 ft)

The Rodina class is a class of Russian river passenger ships.^[3] "Rodina" means "motherland" in Russian.

They were three-deck cargo-passenger ships manufactured in Germany from 1954 to 1961.^[4]

River passenger ships of the project 588

Overview

Rodina class
Month and year of build	Hull No	Image	Name	Operator	Flag	RRR	MMSI	Status
March 1954	13001		Valeriy Chkalov	YRSCO, Krasnoyarsk	→	142501	273327780	originally, the V. Chkalov (also called Valeriy Chkalov according to marinetraffic and the newest edit of RRR). This ship was modernised in 2007.
June 1954	13002		A. Matrosov	YRSCO, Krasnoyarsk	→	142502	273353470	originally, the A. Matrosov (Aleksandr Matrosov is the marinetraffic name)
September 1954	13003		Aleksey Tolstoy	VURSCO, Gorky	→	142503	273338640	originally, the N. Gastello; rebuilt, built up one deck; scrapped in 2014
April 1955	13004		Arabella	VURSCO, Gorky	→	142504	–	originally, the L. Dovator (until 2002); rebuilt, picked up 76 people from sunken Bulgariya on July 10, 2011, scrapped in 2014
June 1955	13005		Svyataya Rus	VURSCO, Gorky	→	142505	–	originally, the Rodina (until 2006); burnt at Bor on 13 August 2018, decommissioned in 2018
1955	13006		Tsezar	VURSCO, Gorky	→	142506	273328160	originally, the Ernst Telman
April 1956	11000		Ocharovannyy Strannik	VURSCO, Gorky	→	142507	273371180	originally, the Andrey Vyshinskiy, Taras Shevchenko, Sergey Kuchkin, Taras Shevchenko
June 1956	11001	Image	Fridrikh Engels	VURSCO, Gorky	→	142508	–	sank on November 6, 2003, out of service in November 2003
September 1956	11002		I. A. Krylov	VURSCO, Gorky	→	142509	273364210
November 1956	11003		Solnechnyy Gorod	VURSCO, Gorky	→	142510	273326640	originally, the Karl Libknekht, Y. Nikulin (2002–2014)
December 1956	11004	Image	Ilyich	VURSCO, Gorky	→	142577	–	Flotel at Kineshma since 2006
April 1957	112		Aleksandr Nevskiy	VURSCO, Gorky	→	142578	273362080
May 1957	113		Severnaya Skazka	VURSCO, Gorky	→	142579	273379430	originally, the Karl Marks
June 1957	114		Knyaz Donskoy	VURSCO, Gorky	→	142580	–	originally, the Dmitriy Donskoy, Kabargin', Kabargin; scrapped
1957	115		Mikhail Kutuzov	VURSCO, Gorky	→	142581	273338050
August 1957	116		Dmitriy Pozharskiy	VURSCO, Gorky	→	142582	273341660
November 1957	117		Ryleev	VURSCO, Gorky	→	082244	–	scrapped in 2018
December 1957	118		Alyosha Popovich	VURSCO, Gorky	→	082169	–	scrapped in November 2014
December 1957	119		Prikamye	VURSCO, Gorky	→	082167	–	originally, the Dobrynya Nikitich
March 1958	120		Ilya Muromets	VURSCO, Gorky	→	082168	273362870
April 1958	121		Bagration	VURSCO, Gorky	→	082169	–	out of service in October 1999; scrapped in 2003
May 1958	122		Kosmonavt Gagarin	VURSCO, Gorky	→	082170	273338860	originally, the Kavkaz (1958–1961); rebuilt 2005 and 2008
June 1958	123	Image	Ural	VSCO, Astrakhan	→	004875	273321730	originally, the Ural, Inzhener Ptashnikov, Taras Bulba
October 1958	124		Valentina Tereshkova	VSCO, Astrakhan		–	–	*originally, the Elbrus (until 1963); filmed in „Девичья весна“ 1960; burnt, out of service and scrapped 1978 at Astrakhan
November 1958	125	Image	Altay	NWRSCO, Leningrad		–	–	filmed in „Unbelievable Adventures of Italians in Russia“ in 1973; sold to Baltic states; scrapped in the 1990s
December 1958	126		Mikhail Lermontov	VURSCO, Astrakhan	→	–	–	originally, the Kazbek; out of service in July 1998; scrapped 2003
March 1959	127		N. V. Gogol	VURSCO, Gorky	→	082649	273367160	RR 4018
April 1959	128	Image	A. I. Gertsen	VURSCO, Gorky	→	082650	273337560
May 1959	129		Anichka	NWRSCO, Leningrad	→ →	–	–	originally, the T. G. Shevtshenko (until 1994), Svyatoy Petr (1994–1997); sunk at Sligo, Ireland; out of service in 2003
June 1959	130	Image	I. S. Turgenev	VURSCO, Gorky	→	083028	–	scrapped in 2017
August 1959	131		G. V. Plekhanov	VURSCO, Gorky	→	082519	–	scrapped in 2020
September 1959	132	Image	K. A. Timiryazev	VURSCO, Astrakhan	→	091176	–
December 1959	133	Image	Denis Davydov	VURSCO, Astrakhan	→	027620	–
February 1960	134		Petr Pervyy	MRSCO, Moscow	→	129230	–	originally, the Ivan Susanin (until 1992); 1992—2004 on the Maas River, in the Netherlands
March 1960	135	Image	Sergo Ordzhonikidze	MRSCO, Moskau		129231	–	originally, the Sergo Ordzhonikidze, Ordzhonikidze; burnt in 1992 on the Lake Onega; filmed in "Titanic" of the band "Nautilus Pompilius" in 1994; out of service in 1995 and scrapped in 1996
April 1960	136	Image	Kozma Minin	VURSCO, Gorky	→	027610	273354550
August 1960	137		Avrora	VURSCO, Gorky	→	021959	–	originally, the Stepan Razin (until 2003); scrapped
October 1960	138		Y. Dolgorukiy	VURSCO, Gorky	→	083722	–	out of service in 2012, scrapped [6]
November 1960	139	Image	General I. D. Chernyakhovskiy	VURSCO, Gorky	→	041021	–
December 1960	140		Rus Velikaya	VURSCO, Gorky	→	229434	273356650	originally, the General N. F. Vatutin (until 2011)
January 1961	141	Image	Pavel Bazhov	KRSCO, Perm	→	145001	–	originally, the Vilgelm Pik (until 1992)
April 1961	142		A. S. Popov	NWRSCO, Leningrad	→	145002	273322950
July 1961	143		Petrokrepost	NWRSCO, Leningrad	→	145003		originally, the N. K. Krupskaya (until 1993); scrapped in 2012
August 1961	144		Dve Stolitsy	BORSCO, Petrozavodsk	→	145004	273341750	originally, the K. E. Tsiolkovskiy, Anatoliy Papanov; accident in 1996 off Valaam, sank due to fire on board at Quay in Saint Petersburg in 2001; rebuilt
September 1961	145	Image	F. Zholio-Kyuri	KRSCO, Perm	→	145005	–	burnt in October 2011 in the river’s backwater [7]
October 1961	146		F. I. Panfyorov	KRSCO, Perm	→	145006	273326520	rebuilt, built up one deck
November 1961	147	Image	Fedor Gladkov	KRSCO, Perm	→	145007	–
December 1961	148		Aleksandr Fadeyev	KRSCO, Perm	→	145008	273369310
December 1961	149		Khirurg Razumovskiy	KRSCO, Perm	→	145009	273360410	rebuilt, built up one deck

RRR — Russian River Register

YRSCO – Yenisseiskoye Rechnoye Parokhodstvo; VURSCO – Volzhskoye Obyedinyonnoye Rechnoye Parokhodstvo (today – Volzhskoye Parokhodstvo, VSCO); MRSCO – Moskovskoye Rechnoye Parokhodstvo; KRSCO – Kamskoye Rechnoye Parokhodstvo; BORSCO – Belomoro-Onezhskoye Rechnoye Parokhodstvo; NWRSCO – Severo-Zapadnoye Rechnoye Parokhodstvo

See also

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

References

External links

• Media related to Project 588 Riverboats at Wikimedia Commons