Baykal class

Baykal class
project 646

The Korolenko in June 2012

Ship data Ship type River cruise ship Shipyard VEB Warnowwerft Warnemünde , GDR Construction period 1953 to 1956 Units built 15th Cruising areas Inland and small coastal voyages

Ship dimensions and crew length 65.2 m ( Lüa ) width 12.0 m Draft Max. 2.22 m displacement from 723 to 774 t measurement 1,091.67 GT / 545.4 NRZ   crew 40 (28 + 12)

Machine system machine Diesel Propulsion 2 x 6NVD48 (6-cyl. Four-stroke ship compression piston engine single action, without turbocharger, reversible) Machine performance 800 PS (588 kW) Top speed 13.7 kn (25 km / h) propeller 2 4-blade propellers

Transport capacities Permitted number of passengers 197; 355 with seats; up to 700 (including cargo space)

The river cruise ships of the Baykal class ( Russian Байкал , German transcription: Baikal), which was also known as Project 646 or BiFa Type B (inland passenger ship type B), are river and canal motorized inland motor ships of medium construction. The class is named after the first ship of the class that bore the name of Lake Baikal in Eastern Siberia .

history

The river cruise line was manufactured from 1953 to 1956. The VEB Warnowwerft Warnemünde in the GDR built the ships of the joint design (ZTKB and KB of the GDR from April 3, 1952). With a few exceptions, the naming was limited to Soviet lakes and important writers. Used were the ships by Soviet shipping companies such as JRP, LORP, TMMP, SSRP, SDP ( ГП Советское Дунайское пароходство ММФ СССР ), KRP and IRP on Soviet rivers and lakes, on the Baltic Sea to line Leningrad-Vyborg, on the White Sea , on the Black Sea and by the Polish company POLSTEAM Zegluga Szczecinska SP zoo on the Baltic Sea from Szczecin . After the collapse of the Soviet Union , the ships came into the hands of Russian and foreign private companies.

technology

The individual ships differ, depending on the variant, due to minor differences in the size of the ship, the equipment with different engine types and other special features with which they were tailored to the respective application. The ships were later completely modernized and rebuilt for new conditions, whereby the number of passenger seats was considerably reduced. The ships are equipped with a diesel drive with two reversible four-stroke main engines 6NVD48 without turbochargers .

Furnishing

The ships were built with single and double cabins as well as 4-, 6- and 8-bed cabins, all with washing facilities. There are also two restaurants and two common rooms available. The multi-bed cabins were later modernized, which led to a reduction in passenger capacity and increased travel comfort.

List of ships

Baykal class ships (selection)
Construction month and year	Build number	image	Name (English / Russian)	first shipping company	home port	flag	Renaming and whereabouts
September 1954	1,115		Gospodin Velikiy Novgorod Господин Великий Новгород	Kama River Shipping Company	Chistopol → Arkhangelsk → Leningrad → Saint Petersburg → Veliky Novgorod	→	built as Sevan , ex. Geroy Yu. Gagarin , RRR no. 142515; Training ship from MUDOD Detski Morskoi Zentr KJUM
December 1954	1,117		Korolenko Короленко	North-west river shipping company	Leningrad → Rostov-on-Don → Leningrad → Saint Petersburg	→	No. 142517 (RRR); Hotel ship in Vyborg
August 1955	1,119		Belinskiy Белинский	Soviet Danube Shipping Company	Ismajil → Kiev → Nizhny Novgorod	→ →	No. 142519 (RRR)
October 1955			Chernyshevskiy Чернышевский	Irtysh River Shipping Company	Omsk	→	No. 142558 (RRR)
November 1955	1,122		Mekhanik Kulibin Механик Кулибин	Lena river shipping company	Yakutsk	→	No. 142559 (RRR)
August 1956	1,124		Rodina Родина	Irtysh River Shipping Company	Omsk	→	built as Sergeyev-Tsenskiy , RRR no. 142587
September 1956	1,125		Mamin-Sibiryak Мамин-Сибиряк	North-west river shipping company	Leningrad → Saint Petersburg	→ →	No. 142588 (RRR)

See also

• Serial ship
• List of river cruise ships

(A)

• Amur class , project Q-003 (386)
• Volga class , project Q-031
• Maksim Gorkiy class , project Q-040
• Vasiliy Surikov class , project Q-040A
• Ukraina class , project Q-053
• Anton Chekhov class , project Q-056
• Sergey Yesenin class , project Q-065

(CZ)

• Oktyabrskaya Revolyutsiya class , project 26-37
• Valerian Kuybyshev class , project 92-016
• Rossiya class , project 785

(D)

• Rodina class , project 588
• Vladimir Ilyich class , project 301
• Dmitriy Furmanov class , project 302

(H)

• Dunay class , project 305

Individual evidence

1. ^ Project 646 ( Memento of October 7, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} reference work, Project 646 ( Memento from October 7, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (Russian)
3. ^ Project 646 ( Memento from October 7, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (Russian)
4. ↑ Проект 646, тип Байкал ( Memento of the original from October 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Russian)  
5. ↑ RRR no. 142515  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Russian)  
6. ↑ Господин Великий Новгород (до 1997 Герой Ю. Гагарин, до 1961 Севан) (Russian)
7. ↑ Короленко (Russian)
8. ↑ RRR no. 142558  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Russian)  
9. ↑ Механик Кулибин (Russian)
10. ↑ RRR no. 142587  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Russian)  

Web links

Commons : Type Baykal ships  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Проект 646, тип Байкал Photo Register (Russian)
• Project 646 ( Memento of October 7, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (English)