The Aleksandr Blok shortly before its resurrection as the new Aleksandr Grin building
The ship was named after the Soviet poet Alexander Blok in 1984 . After the handover and brief operation as a river cruise ship, the Aleksandr Blok was moored in 1987 in Moscow next to the Sowinzentr exhibition center and used as a 4-star hotel ship. On August 18, 2011, she left the berth after 24 years and headed for the Khimki Reservoir ( Russian Химкинское водохранилище ). It was only later announced that the ship was going to Kimry with Rybinsk as the following destination. After the modernization according to the Q-065 / PV08 project at the Nobel shipyard in Rybinsk, the ship was renamed Aleksandr Grin , but entered in the Russian River Register as a newly built vessel . After the renovation, the ship has 56 double cabins. The first trip on April 30th and the last trip on October 17th, 2014 were open to domestic tourists.
