The Sergey Abramov ( Russian Сергей Абрамов ) ( Ger.Sergei Abramov ) was a river cruise ship that was built in 1960 in Czechoslovakia in the shipyard Narodny Podnik Škoda in Komárno (today Slovenské Lodenice Komárno) as Drushba with the building number 440 for the Volga- Shipping company (Волжское объединённое речное пароходство) was built in Gorky .
History of the ship
The river cruise ship with three passenger decks belongs to the Oktyabrskaya Revolyutsiya class , a series of 14 ships manufactured from 1957 to 1962. The Narodny Podnik Škoda shipyard in Komárno was then part of the Škoda Group . The ship was named after the Soviet writer Sergei Abramov . It was operated by OOO "Tsezarj Travel" on the Volga and Moskva . The Sergei Abramov has a diesel-electric drive with three main engines. Already in 1966 the ship was renamed and got its new name Kapitan Rachkov . Under this name, the ship was successfully operated on the Volga until 2004. Renamed again in 2004 and operated as Sergey Abramov from OOO "Tsezarj Travel" on the Volga, Kama and Moskva, from Samara . In November 2011, the ship docked at the quay in the northern port of Moscow and after connecting electricity and water lines, it was to be operated as a hotel and restaurant. For unknown reasons, a fire broke out on the night of November 13, 2011 to November 14, 2011 at 4.14 a.m. local time and after 15 hours the Sergey Abramov sank . Several people were injured, including 33-year-old mechanic Aleksei Shatin. At the end of November 2011 a fatality was rescued from the divers.
