Vodohod

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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

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

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

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

Funnel of the cruise ship Rus, painted in Vodohod's colors

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

More information Valerian Kuybyshev-class motorships (Project 92-016), Month and year of build ...
Valerian Kuybyshev-class motorships (Project 92-016)
Month and year of buildHull No[21]ImageNameCaptainCrewOwned by Vodohod sinceStatus
December 19752001Valerian KuybyshevAleksandr GribovFebruary 2012 MMSI number: 273365010
19772002Fyodor ShalyapinAleksandr GromovMarch 2012 originally, the Kliment Voroshilov
19782003Feliks DzerzhinskiyMikhail KucherovFebruary 2012
19792004Sergey KuchkinMarch 2012 originally, the Georgiy Dimitrov MMSI number: 273364090
April 19802005Mikhail FrunzeAleksandr SainovFebruary 2012
19812006Mstislav RostropovichMarch 2012 originally, the Mikhail Kalinin
19812007Aleksandr SuvorovIgor BurenkowFebruary 2012 MMSI number: 273361090
19812008Semyon BudyonnyyVitaly KistenMarch 2012
April 19832009Georgiy ZhukovViktor ProgorshnevFebruary 2012
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Vladimir Ilyich class

More information Vladimir Ilyich-class motorships (Project 301), Month and year of build ...
Vladimir Ilyich-class motorships (Project 301)
Month and year of buildHull No[22]ImageNameCaptainCrewOwned by Vodohod sinceIMOStatus
July 1976329Konstantin KorotkovAleksandr Vladimirovich SilantyevFebruary 20127515432 originally, the Sovetskaya Ukraina, MMSI number: -7515432
September 1977332Nizhniy NovgorodVladimir Vassilyevich ChervyakovFebruary 20127617785originally, the Sovetskaya Rossiya, MMSI number: -7617785
April 1980339Konstantin FedinMikhail StepanovFebruary 20128031354MMSI number: 999999952
November 1980371Vissarion BelinskiyAleksandr Nikolaevich ProtasyevMarch 20128031378
August 1981373Nikolay ChernyshevskiyFebruary 20128131520
May 1982375Aleksandr RadishchevVassily Nikolaevich MeshkovFebruary 20128225682
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Dmitriy Furmanov class

More information Dmitriy Furmanov-class motorships (Project 302), Month and year of build ...
Dmitriy Furmanov-class motorships (Project 302)
Month and year of buildHull No[22]ImageNameCaptainCrewOwned by Vodohod sinceIMOStatus
September 1984382Konstantin SimonovFebruary 20128422618 MMSI number: -8422618
April 1985383Leonid SobolevFebruary 20128501000 MMSI number: -8501000
July 1986387Zosima ShashkovVladimir Vitalyevich Mironov98February 20128620090MMSI number: 273368010
May 1987389RusFebruary 20128707666
June 1987390LeninFebruary 20128707678MMSI number: -8707678
September 1988394Georgiy ChicherinAlexei Yuryevich Tsaryov102–110February 20128822507
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Anton Chekhov class

More information Anton Chekhov-class motorships (Project Q-056), Month and year of build ...
Anton Chekhov-class motorships (Project Q-056)
Month and year of buildHull No[22]ImageNameCaptainCrewOwned by Vodohod sinceIMOStatus
May 1979K714Lev TolstoyVladimir Belodvortsev[23]February 2012MMSI number: 273350150
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Maksim Gorkiy class

More information Maksim Gorkiy-class motorships (Project Q-040), Month and year of build ...
Maksim Gorkiy-class motorships (Project Q-040)
Month and year of buildHull No[22]ImageNameCaptainCrewOwned by Vodohod sinceIMOStatus
April 1974K704Maksim GorkiySergey Batyalov[24]66February 2012MMSI number: 997799990
October 1974K705Aleksandr PushkinAleksandr Sorochkin[25]66February 2012
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