Russian River Cruise Ships. Project 301 | Shipspotting

This is the third episode of the 10-part serial featuring spotting of Russian River Cruise Ships during 2022 navigation. The story is going on, and so we reached the four-deck river cruise motor ships. 301 project. “Vladimir Ilyich“ class river motor ships. These cruise liners were built in Germany at the VEB Elbewerft Boizenburg/Rosslau Boizenburg shipyard by the USSR order from 1974 to 1983. Although the ships were built in Germany, the main engines were supplied from the USSR. Here is a real example of the work of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance in those days. According to the initial project the passenger capacity made up 360 people plus 94 crewmen. All the passenger cabins were equipped with bathrooms including a sink, a shower, and a toilet bowl. Also all the cabins had air conditioners. In total it had been built 22 river cruise ships in three series under project 301. 301s had lastly become a mass series of large, robust, weather-resistant, comfortable and exactly to