Baykal-class motorship

River cruise ship Korolenko as hotel in Vyborg
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

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

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