The Viktoriya ( Russian Виктория ) was a river cruise ship that was built in 1958 in Czechoslovakia in the Narodny Podnik Škoda shipyard in Komárno (today Slovenské Lodenice Komárno, then part of the Škoda Group ) and belongs to the Rossiya class (project 785 / OL800 ) heard. It was operated by OOO Anadyrj ( Russian ООО "Анадырь" ) on the Volga until 2009.
The river cruise ship with two passenger decks was built in 1958 at the Slovakian shipyard Narodny Podnik Škoda in Komárno as AS Griboyedov , hull number 343, for the shipping company "Kamskoje Retschnoje Parochodstwo" (Kama river shipping company) in Perm . She belonged to a series of 36 ships of the Rossiya class produced in the last series III from 1952 to 1958 , which was also known as "Project 785" or "OL800" (Slovak: osobna lod 800 - German: passenger ship 800 hp). The Viktoriya has a diesel-electric drive with two main engines. Already in 1959 the ship was renamed and got a new name II Shishkin , which was easier to pronounce. Under this name, the ship was successfully operated on the Perm - Astrakhan route until 2001. Renamed again in 2001 and already operated as Viktoriya until 2009 by OOO Anadyrj and until October 2009 when it was bought by OOO "MVK", it was located on the right bank of the Volga near Astrakhan, awaiting modernization. Viktoriya near Rybinsk on the Volga has been for sale from OOO "MVK" for 50 → 35 million rubles since 2009 . In 2010 the passenger ship was overhauled and tested in motion. In 2016 the ship was scrapped.
The Kompozitor Kalinnikov was also called Viktoriya for a while , but was built in 1957.
