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Vodohod is a Russian cruise company and river cruise line operator, founded in 2004 by the Volga Shipping Company and named after Ivan Kulibin’s “water-going vessel” or “water-goer”. The company has its headquarters in Moscow and Saint Petersburg, Russia. After merging with Volga Flot Tour company operates more than 50 passenger ships along rivers of Volga, Don, Kama, the Moscow and Volga-Don canals, the Volga–Baltic Waterway, Northern–Western rivers, lakes Ladoga and Onega.[1]

The company is also planning the launch of two, twin Finnish-built expedition ships under the codename Project Vega [2] for delivery in 2021 and 2022.

The company is in the top three companies [3] (along with Mosturflot and Infoflot) of the consolidated Russian river cruise market (the first five companies carry about 80% of the total passenger traffic [4]).

History

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Since 1999, a subsidiary of the Volga Shipping Company, the river tourism company Volga-Flot-Tour,[5] has been established. This date is considered the year of foundation of the cruise company.[6]

In 2011, there was a consolidation of companies into private limited company Vodohod,[7] which were in the shipping passenger division of the international transport holding UCL Holdingrude — Volgo-Balt Transport Holding (VBTH):[8] "Volga-Flot-Tour", private limited company Vodohod-Moscow (a full-cycle shipping and travel company[9]) and private limited company Vodohod-St. Petersburg (a cruise shipping company and travel agent for sea and river cruises[citation needed]). In 2017, the company withdrew from the UCLH holding.[10]

"Vodohod-Saint-Petersburg" was established in 2004 on the basis of the St. Petersburg branch of Volga-Fleet-Tour PLC and operated in the North-West of Russia. In 2006, the company "Vodohod-Saint-Petersburg" transported about 400 thousand passengers by the high-speed fleet to the historical suburbs of St. Petersburg.[citation needed]

Indicators

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According to Kommersant, in 2016 (as part of VBTH) Vodohod transported 497,000 passengers. According to SPARK, the revenue of Vodohod in 2015 according to RAS is 2.6 billion rubles, net profit is 55 million rubles.[10]

Owners

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Co-owners of the company are Riskhat Bahautdinov [4] and Vladimir Kasanenko (100% of shares).[10] The general director of the company is Rishate Bagautdin.[11]

Vodohod cruise ships

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The fleet of the company "Vodohod" has:

27 cruise fleet units (25 cruise ships in operation);[12]

9 units of the passenger high-speed fleet of the "Meteor" type;

9 units of the pleasant fleet of the types "Moscow", "Neva" and "Otdikh".[13]

From 2017, commissioned by the company at the "Krasnaya Sormovo" steam-ship of mixed swimming has laid on the rivers and seas "Prince Vladimir" — the second vessel of the PV300 project, developed by the company "Marine Engineering Bureau—CPb".[14] This is the first passenger ship built on the Russian shipyard over the past 60 years. The operation of the four-panel liner began, but he received another name, "Karim Mustay".[15][16] The vessel is calculated on 342 passengers.[17]

Courts go under the Russian flag, are owned by the company. The home ports of the ships sailing under the Russian flag are Nizhny Novgorod and Saint Petersburg.[18][19][12][20]

Valerian Kuybyshev class

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Valerian Kuybyshev-class motorships (Project 92-016) Month and year of build Hull No[21] Image Name Captain Crew Owned by Vodohod since Status December 1975 2001 Valerian Kuybyshev Aleksandr Gribov February 2012 MMSI number: 273365010 1977 2002 Fyodor Shalyapin Aleksandr Gromov March 2012 originally, the Kliment Voroshilov 1978 2003 Feliks Dzerzhinskiy Mikhail Kucherov February 2012 1979 2004 Sergey Kuchkin March 2012 originally, the Georgiy Dimitrov MMSI number: 273364090 April 1980 2005 Mikhail Frunze Aleksandr Sainov February 2012 1981 2006 Mstislav Rostropovich March 2012 originally, the Mikhail Kalinin 1981 2007 Aleksandr Suvorov Igor Burenkow February 2012 MMSI number: 273361090 1981 2008 Semyon Budyonnyy Vitaly Kisten March 2012 April 1983 2009 Georgiy Zhukov Viktor Progorshnev February 2012

Vladimir Ilyich class

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Vladimir Ilyich-class motorships (Project 301) Month and year of build Hull No[22] Image Name Captain Crew Owned by Vodohod since IMO Status July 1976 329 Konstantin Korotkov Aleksandr Vladimirovich Silantyev February 2012 7515432 originally, the Sovetskaya Ukraina, MMSI number: -7515432 September 1977 332 Nizhniy Novgorod Vladimir Vassilyevich Chervyakov February 2012 7617785 originally, the Sovetskaya Rossiya, MMSI number: -7617785 April 1980 339 Konstantin Fedin Mikhail Stepanov February 2012 8031354 MMSI number: 999999952 November 1980 371 Vissarion Belinskiy Aleksandr Nikolaevich Protasyev March 2012 8031378 August 1981 373 Nikolay Chernyshevskiy February 2012 8131520 May 1982 375 Aleksandr Radishchev Vassily Nikolaevich Meshkov February 2012 8225682

Dmitriy Furmanov class

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Dmitriy Furmanov-class motorships (Project 302) Month and year of build Hull No[22] Image Name Captain Crew Owned by Vodohod since IMO Status September 1984 382 Konstantin Simonov February 2012 8422618 MMSI number: -8422618 April 1985 383 Leonid Sobolev February 2012 8501000 MMSI number: -8501000 July 1986 387 Zosima Shashkov Vladimir Vitalyevich Mironov 98 February 2012 8620090 MMSI number: 273368010 May 1987 389 Rus February 2012 8707666 June 1987 390 Lenin February 2012 8707678 MMSI number: -8707678 September 1988 394 Georgiy Chicherin Alexei Yuryevich Tsaryov 102–110 February 2012 8822507

Anton Chekhov class

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Anton Chekhov-class motorships (Project Q-056) Month and year of build Hull No[22] Image Name Captain Crew Owned by Vodohod since IMO Status May 1979 K714 Lev Tolstoy Vladimir Belodvortsev[23] February 2012 MMSI number: 273350150

Maksim Gorkiy class

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Maksim Gorkiy-class motorships (Project Q-040) Month and year of build Hull No[22] Image Name Captain Crew Owned by Vodohod since IMO Status April 1974 K704 Maksim Gorkiy Sergey Batyalov[24] 66 February 2012 MMSI number: 997799990 October 1974 K705 Aleksandr Pushkin Aleksandr Sorochkin[25] 66 February 2012

See also

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Volga Shipping Company

References

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