56°19′48″N 44°00′32″E / 56.330°N 44.009°E
River cruise ship Aleksandr Suvorov
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Name | Aleksandr Suvorov |
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Builder | Slovenské Lodenice, Komárno, Czechoslovakia |
Yard number | 2007 |
Launched | 1981 |
Completed | 1981 |
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Status | In service |
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Class and type | Valerian Kuybyshev-class river cruise ship |
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Displacement | 3,950[3] t |
Length | 135.75 m (445.4 ft)[3] |
Beam | 16.8 m (55 ft)[3][4] |
Draught | 2.9 m (9.5 ft)[3] |
Decks | 4 |
Installed power | 3 × 6ЧРН36/45[3] (ЭГ70-5)2,208 kilowatts (2,961 hp)[3][5] |
Propulsion | 3[3] |
Speed | 26 km/h (16 mph; 14 kn) |
Capacity | 372 passengers[3] |
Crew | 88[3] |
Aleksandr Suvorov (Russian: Александр Суворов) is a Valerian Kuybyshev-class (92-016, OL400) Soviet/Russian river cruise ship, cruising in the Volga–Don basin. On 5 June 1983 Aleksandr Suvorov crashed into a girder of the Ulyanovsk railway bridge. The catastrophe led to 176 deaths[6] yet the ship stayed afloat, was restored and still navigates. Her home port is currently Nizhny Novgorod.