The Petr Alabin ( Russian Пётр Алабин , German Pjotr Alabin) is a river cruise ship that was built in 1954 in Czechoslovakia in the shipyard Narodny Podnik Škoda in Komárno (today Slovenské Lodenice Komárno, at that time part of the Škoda Group ) and for the Rossiya -Class (Project 785 / OL800) belongs. It was operated by Sputnik-Germes ( Russian: Спутник-Гермес ) on the Volga on the Samara - Kazan route and has been out of service since autumn 2011. The ship bears the name of the Russian statesman and official Pyotr Vladimirovich Alabin ( Пётр Владимирович Алабин ).
The river cruise ship with two passenger decks (hull number 328) was built in 1954 at the Slovak shipyard Narodny Podnik Škoda in Komárno as a Kirgiziya for the shipping company "Wolzhskoje Gruzo-passazhirskoje Parochodstwo" (Volga freight passenger shipping company) in Gorki . She belonged to a series of 36 ships of the Rossiya class produced between 1952 and 1958 , which was also known as "Project 785" or "OL800" (Slovak: osobna lod 800 - German: passenger ship 800 PS). The Petr Alabin has a diesel-electric drive with two main engines and was completely modernized in 2007-2008. In 2011 she drove on the routes Samara - Kazan - Tetjuschi - Samara, Samara - Wolzhski Utjos - Samara, Samara - Schirjajewo - Samara, Samara - Schirjajewo - Ulyanovsk - Samara. Saratov and Cheboksary were also visited in 2011. After the sinking of the sister ship Bulgaria on the Volga, the Petr Alabin was detained in Kazan on July 12, 2011, but fled in the direction of Samara without permission.
