Rodina class

Rodina- class
Project 588 / BiFa Type A

The Dmitriy Pozharskiy of the Rodina class Project 588 / BiFa Type A

Ship data Ship type River cruise ship Shipyard VEB Mathias-Thesen-Werft Wismar , GDR Construction period 1953 to 1961 Units built 49 Cruising areas Inland and small coastal voyages

Ship dimensions and crew length 95.8 m ( Lüa ) width 14.3 m Draft Max. 2.4 m displacement 1,460 (I) t; 1,492 (without cooling systems) and 1,506 t (II)   crew 72

Machine system machine Diesel drive 3 × four-stroke diesel engine 6NVD48U Machine performance 885 kW (1,203 hp) Top speed 13.7 kn (25 km / h) propeller 3

Transport capacities Permitted number of passengers 364/339

The river cruise ships of the Rodina class , which was also known as Projekt 588 or BiFa Type A (German: inland passenger ship), are medium-sized, river and canal motorized inland motor ships. The first series was often referred to by the shipyard as type V. Chkalov (German W. Tschkalow ), another shipyard name for these ships was (inland passenger ship type A). The Soviet and now Russian crews simply call the class of ship немцы - the Germans.

details

The VEB Mathias-Thesen-Werft in Wismar built in the years 1953 to 1961 49 units of the class of ships for the Soviet Union . The first ship of this class, V. Chkalov , named after the pilot Valeri Pavlovich Tschkalow , was delivered on December 26, 1953. By 1961 another 48 units had been completed and handed over. There are two versions of the Project 588 class, called I. (11 ships) and II. Series (38 ships), which differ in the number of passengers, maximum load and internal equipment. In the Soviet Union, they were used as inland passenger and tourist ships on the Volga , Kama , Don , Neva and Yenisei . For their time, they were comfortable and reliable ships with a fine streamlined shape. There was no fixed system for naming them; the majority of the ships were named after Soviet or Russian celebrities or fairy tale characters, e.g. B. Ilja Muromez , cosmonaut Ju. Gagarin , I. S. Turgenew , Ivan Sussanin , Aleksandr Nevskiy (Alexander Newski), others have geographical names such as Ural or Elbrus . The German origin is reflected in the names of some ships such as Karl Marks (Karl Marx), Friedrich Engels , Karl Liebknecht , Rosa Luxemburg and Ernst Thälmann .

technical description

The ships with five decks are powered by three diesel engines of the type R6DV48 from the engine manufacturer VEB Schwermaschinenbau "Karl Liebknecht" (SKL), which act directly on the three screws. Many Project 588- class units are still in service to this day, some of them have been decommissioned and only seven ships have so far been decommissioned. One ship sank, three burned down and another three were decommissioned and scrapped. As a result of the discontinued demand for inland passenger traffic (rail, air and bus traffic became more convenient, faster and cheaper), they are now only used by various shipping companies as tourist ships. In order to improve the comfort of the tourists, many ships were renovated by renovating the cabins and the other passenger compartments as well as replacing the various ship equipment according to today's standards, e.g. B. modernized drive, safety and navigation systems.

List of ships

Construction month and year	Build number	image	Name (English / Russian)	Shipping company	flag	Renaming and whereabouts
March 1954	13001	image	V. Chkalov В. Чкалов	JRP , Krasnoyarsk	→	In the latest RRR book by mistake, letters are lowercase and the full name instead of the initial Валерий Чкалов
June 1954	13002	image	A. Matrosov А. Матросов	JRP, Krasnoyarsk	→	In the latest RRR book, by mistake, letters are lowercase and there is no space after the period - А.Матросов
September 1954	13003		Aleksey Tolstoy Алексей Толстой	WORP , Gorky	→	* ex N. Gastello ; modernized, built another deck
April 1955	13004		Arabella Арабелла	WORP, Gorky	→	* ex L. Dovator (until 2002); modernized, on July 10th 2011 79 people were rescued from the sunken Bulgaria
June 1955	13005		Svyataya Rus Святая Русь	WORP, Gorky	→	* ex Rodina (until 2006)
1955	13006		Tsezar езарь	WORP, Gorky	→	* ex Ernst Telman (2004–); Filmed in "Китайский сервиз" in 1998 under the name "Святитель Николай"
April 1956	11000		Ocharovannyy Strannik Очарованный Странник	WORP, Gorky	→	* ex Andrey Vyshinskiy, Taras Shevchenko , Sergey Kuchkin , Taras Shevchenko
June 1956	11001	image	F. Engels Ф. Энгельс	WORP, Gorky	→	sunk on November 6, 2003 in the Baltic Sea off Kaliningrad; deleted in November 2003
September 1956	11002		IA Krylov И. А. Крылов	WORP, Gorky	→
November 1956	11003		Solnechnyy Gorod Солнечный Город	WORP, Gorky	→	* ex Karl Libknekht (until 2002), Y. Nikulin (until 2014)
December 1956	11004	Ilyich (1956)	Ilyich Ильич	WORP, Gorky	→	Flotel before Kineschma since 2006
April 1957	112		Aleksandr Nevskiy Александр Невский	WORP, Gorky	→
May 1957	113		Severnaya Skazka Северная Сказка	WORP, Gorky	→	* ex Karl Marks
June 1957	114		Kabargin Кабаргин	WORP, Gorky	→	Dmitriy Donskoy , Kabargin , Knyaz Donskoy , sunk on October 4, 2016 during repair work in Mari El
1957	115		Mikhail Kutuzov Михаил Кутузов	WORP, Gorky	→
August 1957	116		Dmitriy Pozharskiy Дмитрий Пожарский	WORP, Gorky	→
November 1957	117		Ryleev Рылеев	WORP, Gorky	→
December 1957	118		Alesha Popovich Алеша Попович	WORP, Gorky	→
December 1957	119		Prikamye Прикамье	WORP, Gorky	→	* ex Dobrynya Nikitich
March 1958	120		Ilya Muromets Илья Муромец	WORP, Gorky	→
April 1958	121		Bagration Багратион	WORP, Gorky	→	deleted in October 1999; scrapped in 2003
May 1958	122		Kosmonavt Gagarin Космонавт Гагарин	WORP, Gorky	→	* ex Kavkaz (1961-); modernized in 2005 and 2008
June 1958	123	image	Taras Bulba	WORP, Astrakhan	→	* ex Ural , Inzhener Ptashnikov ; modernized, basket and football room instead of cinema room
October 1958	124		Valentina Tereshkova	WORP, Astrakhan		* ex Elbrus (until 1963); filmed in "Девичья весна" in 1960; burned, painted and scrapped at Astrakhan in 1978
November 1958	125	image	Altay	SSRP, Leningrad		Filmed in "Невероятные приключения итальянцев в России" in 1973; sold to the Baltic States; scrapped in the 1990s
December 1958	126		Mikhail Lermontov	WORP, Astrakhan	→	* ex Kazbek ; deleted July 1998; scrapped in 2003
March 1959	127		NV Gogol	WORP, Gorky	→
April 1959	128	image	AI Gertsen	WORP, Gorky	→
May 1959	129		Anichka	SSRP, Leningrad	→ →  ?	* ex TG Shevtshenko (until 1994), Svyatoy Petr (1994-1997) ,; sunk off Sligo, Ireland ; deleted in 2003
June 1959	130	image	IS Turgenev	WORP, Gorky	→
August 1959	131		GV Plekhanov	WORP, Gorky	→
September 1959	132	image	KA Timiryazev	WORP, Astrakhan	→
December 1959	133	image	Denis Davydov	WORP, Astrakhan	→
February 1960	134		Petr Pervyy	MRP, Moscow	→	* ex Ivan Susanin (until 1992); 1992–2004 on Maas , Holland
March 1960	135	image	Sergo Ordzhonikidze	MRP, Moscow		burned on Lake Onega in 1992; Filmed in "Титаник" of the group " Nautilus Pompilius " in 1994; deleted and scrapped in 1995
April 1960	136	image	Kozma Minin	WORP, Gorky	→
August 1960	137		Avrora	WORP, Gorky	→	* ex Stepan Razin (until 2003)
October 1960	138		Y. Dolgorukiy	WORP, Gorky	→	scrapped
November 1960	139	image	General ID Chernyakhovskiy	WORP, Gorky	→
December 1960	140		Rus Velikaya	WORP, Gorky	→	* ex General NF Vatutin (until 2011)
January 1961	141	image	Pavel Bazhov	KRP, Perm	→	* ex Vilgelm Pik (until 1992)
April 1961	142		AS Popov	SSRP, Leningrad	→
July 1961	143		Petrokrepost	SSRP, Leningrad	→	* ex NK Krupskaya (until 1993)
August 1961	144		Dve Stolitsy	BORP, Petrozavodsk	→	* ex KE Tsiolkovskiy , Anatoliy Papanov ; Accident in 1996 off Valaam, 2001 fire and sinking near Saint Petersburg; modernized
September 1961	145	image	F. Zholio-Kyuri	KRP, Perm	→	burned in October 2011 at the base
October 1961	146		FI Panfyorov	KRP, Perm	→	In the latest RRR book the name is mistakenly written as Ф.И.ПАНФЁРОВ ,; modernized, built another deck
November 1961	147	image	Fedor Gladkov	KRP, Perm	→
December 1961	148		Aleksandr Fadeyev	KRP, Perm	→
December 1961	149		Surgeon Razumovskiy	KRP, Perm	→	modernized, built another deck

JRP - Yenisiskoye Rechnoye Parokhodstvo; WORP - Wolschskoje Objedinjonnoje Rechnoye Parochodstvo (today - Wolschskoje Parochodstvo, WP); MRP - Moskovskoye Rechnoye Parokhodstvo; KRP - Kamskoye Rechnoye Parokhodstvo; BORP - Belomoro-Oneshskoye Rechnoye Parokhodstvo; SSRP - Severo-Sapadnoye Rechnoye Parokhodstvo;

literature

• Manfred Neumann, Dietrich Strobel: From the cutter to the container ship . Ships from GDR shipyards in text and images. 1st edition. VEB Verlag Technik, Berlin 1981.

See also

• Serial ship
• List of ship types
• 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)

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

(D)

• Baykal class , project 646
• Vladimir Ilyich class , project 301
• Dmitriy Furmanov class , project 302

(H)

• Dunay class , project 305

Web links

Commons : Project 588  - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files

• Description of the ships of the Project 588 class ( memento of October 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (Russian)
• List of ships of the Project 588 class ( Memento of February 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (Russian)
• Ships of Project 588 (Russian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Судно 142501 ( Memento of the original from October 21, 2014 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) 
2. ↑ Судно 142502 ( Memento of the original from December 21, 2014 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) 
3. ↑ “Yuri Dolgoruky” on englishrussia.com
4. ↑ "Жолио-Кюри" сгорел в затоне ( memento of the original from October 6, 2011 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. 
5. ↑ Судно 145006 ( Memento of the original from January 11, 2014 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)