Russian River Cruise Ships. Project 92-016 | Shipspotting

This is the sixth episode of the 10-part serial featuring spotting of Russian River Cruise Ships during 2022 navigation. Be amazed at the arrival and departure of large four-deck river cruise ships on the Moscow Canal. Until 2020, when the newest cruise liner “Mustai Karim” (PV300 project) set off on her first voyage, these passenger ships had been the largest ones on the Russian rivers. So, project 92-016. Type “Valerian Kuibyshev“. These cruise vessels were built in former Czechoslovakia by the USSR order from 1976 to 1983. In total it had been built 9 ships under project 92-016. Length 135.8 meters, draft 2.9 meters, passenger capacity 400 people. These passenger boats run wherever the depths allow. On these motor ships, you can travel from Moscow to St. Petersburg, Perm, Astrakhan or Rostov-on-Don. For the most part, the passenger vessels of this project have conserved the interiors of passenger cabins and public premises since the moment they were built. Naturally