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