Wodochod (shipping company)

Vodochod
legal form	ООО (German GmbH)
founding	2004
Seat	Moscow , Russia
management	Alexander Trofimow (Managing Director)
Branch	Tourism
Website	www.vodohod.com

Wodochod (altrus. ВодоходЪ ) is a Russian shipping company with headquarters in Moscow and a branch in Saint Petersburg . The Vodohod ships are used on the cruise routes Saint Petersburg - Moscow, Astrakhan - Moscow and Nizhny Novgorod - Moscow.

The enterprise

Wodochod , founded in 2004, is the market leader among river cruise operators in Russia and the largest operator of river cruise ships. The fleet consists of 20 comfortable 4-deck river cruise ships. In October 2011, UCL Holding announced that Vodohod, Vodohod-Saint Petersburg and Volga-Flot-Tur will be combined under the unified trademark “ВодоходЪ”. Thus, the new company will operate half of Russia's river cruise ships.

Vodohod is one of the founders of ATOP (Association of Tourist Operators of Russia) and a member of Moscow Association of Tourist Agencies (Travel Agencies) MATA.

fleet

The Vodohod ships sail under the Russian flag and their home ports are Nizhny Novgorod and Saint Petersburg .

Valerian Kuybyshev class

Construction year	Build number	image	Surname	captain	crew	Owner Vodohod since	Renaming and whereabouts
1975	2001		Valerian Kuybyshev	Aleksandr Pavlovich Gribov		February 2012
1977	2002		Fyodor Shalyapin	Aleksandr Gromov		March 2012	* ex Kliment Voroshilov
1978	2003		Feliks Dzerzhinskiy	Mikhail Pavlovich Kutscherow		February 2012
1979	2004		Sergey Kuchkin			March 2012	* ex Georgiy Dimitrov
1980	2005		Mikhail Frunze	Aleksandr Vitalievich Sainov		February 2012
1981	2006		Mstislav Rostropovich			March 2012	* ex Mikhail Kalinin , burned on 3rd – 4th November 2007 during scheduled repairs in front of the Pamjati Parishskoj Kommuny settlement, Bor district , Nizhny Novgorod region
1981	2007		Aleksandr Suvorov	Igor Alekseewitsch Burenkow		February 2012
1981	2008		Semyon Budyonnyy	Vitaly Kistenj		March 2012
1983	2009		Georgiy Zhukov	Viktor Progorschnev		February 2012

Vladimir Ilyich class

Construction year	Build number	image	Surname	captain	crew	Owner Vodohod since	Renaming and whereabouts
July 1976	329		Konstantin Korotkov	Aleksandr Vladimirovich Silantjew		February 2012
September 1977	332		Nizhniy Novgorod	Vladimir Vasilyevich Chervyakov		February 2012
April 1980	339		Konstantin Fedin	Mikhail Stepanov		February 2012
November 1980	371		Vissarion Belinskiy	Aleksandr Nikolaewitsch Protasjew		March 2012
August 1981	373		Nikolay Chernyshevskiy			February 2012
May 1982	375		Aleksandr Radishchev	Vasily Nikolaevich Meshkov		February 2012

Dmitriy Furmanov class

Construction year	Build number	image	Surname	captain	crew	Owner Vodohod since	Renaming and whereabouts
September 1984	382		Konstantin Simonov			February 2012	IMO no. 8422618
April 1985	383		Leonid Sobolev			February 2012	IMO no. 8501000
July 1986	387		Zosima Shashkov	Vladimir Vitalievich Mironov		February 2012	IMO no. 8620090
May 1987	389		Rus			February 2012	IMO no. 8707666
June 1987	390		Lenin			February 2012	IMO no. 8707678
September 1988	394		Georgiy Chicherin	Alexei Yuryevich Zaryov	102-110	February 2012	IMO no. 8822507

Anton Chekhov class

Construction year	Build number	image	Surname	captain	crew	Owner Vodohod since	Renaming and whereabouts
May 1979	K714		Lev Tolstoy	Vladimir Evgenyevich Belodwortzew		February 2012

Maksim Gorkiy class

Construction year	Build number	image	Surname	captain	crew	Owner Vodohod since	Renaming and whereabouts
April 1974	K704		Maksim Gorkiy	Sergei Vladimirovich Batjalov	66	February 2012
October 1974	K705		Aleksandr Pushkin	Aleksandr Sorochkin	66	February 2012