Mikhail Kalinin-class passenger ship

The Mikhail Kalinin-class passenger ship (project 101, in Germany known as Seefa 340^[4]) is a class of Soviet ocean liners and cruise ships, operated by the Baltic State Shipping Company (BGMP), Far East Shipping Company (FESCO) and Black Sea Shipping Company (ChMMP or BLASCO).^[5] The 19^[6] Soviet ships of this class were constructed in 1958–1964 by the East German company VEB Mathias-Thesen Werft, in Wismar. The class was named after the first ship in the class Mikhail Kalinin, which in her turn was named after the nominal head of state of Russia and later of the Soviet Union Mikhail Kalinin.

MS Mikhail Kalinin in Stockholm, 1965
Class overview
Builders	VEB Mathias-Thesen Werft, Wismar, East Germany
Succeeded by	Ivan Franko-class (project 301/SeeFa 750)
Built	1958–1964[1]
In service	1958
Planned	19
Building	19
Completed	19
General characteristics
Type	Ocean liner → Cruise ship
Tonnage	1st series: 4,871 GT[2] 2nd series: 5,230 GT[2] 3rd series: 6,152 GT[2] 4th series: 5,261 GT[2]
Length	122.15 m (401 ft) overall[3]
Beam	16.00 m (52 ft)[3]
Height	7.60 m (25 ft)[3]
Draught	5.18 m (17 ft)[3]
Decks	4 passenger decks
Installed power	2 × MAN-DMR K6Z57/80 diesels, 6,192 kW (8,304 hp)
Propulsion	2 propellers
Speed	17.0 knots (31.5 km/h; 19.6 mph)[3]
Capacity	333 passengers

Ocean liners/cruise ships of the project 101/Seefa 340

Mikhail Kalinin-class passenger ships
No.	Original name	English transliteration
First series of Project 101/Seefa 340
1	Михаил Калинин	Mikhail Kalinin
2	Феликс Дзержинский (Exelsior Neptune)	Feliks Dzerzhinskiy (Exelsior Neptune)
3	Григорий Орджоникидзе	Grigoriy Ordzhonikidze
4	М. Урицкий	M. Uritskiy
5	Вацлав Воровский	Vatslav Vorovskiy
6	Мария Ульянова (Excelsior Mercury)	Mariya Ulyanova (Excelsior Mercury)
7	Эстония (Екатерина II)	Estoniya (Ekaterina II)
8	Латвия	Latviya (Latvia)
9	Литва (Boguchar, Fu Jian, Green Coast)	Litva (Boguchar, Fu Jian, Green Coast)
10	Петропавловск (Босфор)	Petropavlovsk (Bosfor)
11	Владивосток (Приамурье, Priamurye)	Vladivostok (Priamurye (ru), Priamurye)
Second series of Project 101/Seefa 340
12	Туркмения	Turkmeniya
13	Хабаровск (Sounds of Orient)	Khabarovsk (Sounds of Orient)[7]
14	Николаевск	Nikolayevsk
15	Байкал	Baykal
Third series of Project 101/Seefa 340
16	Надежда Крупская (Кубань, Susana)	Nadezhda Krupskaya (Kuban, Susana)
Fourth series of Project 101/Seefa 340
17	Армения (Odessa Star, Арм)	Armeniya (Odessa Star, Arm)
18	Башкирия (Odessa Song, Royal Dream, Silver Star, Star, Nandini, Olviara, Ocean Princess, Siritara Ocean Queen)	Bashkiriya (Odessa Song, Royal Dream, Silver Star, Star, Nandini, Olviara, Ocean Princess, Siritara Ocean Queen)
19	Аджария	Adzhariya

Overview

Since we couldn't fit information about the vessels in the class, we decided to show 8 out of the 19 vessels in the fleet.

Mikhail Kalinin-class passenger ships
Year of build	Hull No	Image	Name	First operator	Port of Registry	Flag	IMO-No.	Status
1958	101		Mikhail Kalinin	BGMP	Leningrad	→	5234917	1994 laid up in Murmansk, later scrapped in India[6]
1958	102		Excelsior Neptune	BLASCO	Odessa → Vladivostok → Panama City → San Lorenzo	→ →	5113436	originally, the Feliks Dzerzhinskiy (until October 1988), sank at shipyard in 1993, later scrapped[8]
1959	103		Grigoriy Ordzhonikidze	FESCO	Vladivostok		5404677	scrapped in 1992[6]
1959	104	Image	M. Uritskiy	FESCO	Vladivostok → Ust-Dunaysk	→	5215997	scrapped in 1996[6]
1959	105		Vatslav Vorovskiy	MMP	Murmansk		5429407	wrecked
1959	106		Excelsior Mercury	SMP	Arkhangelsk → Leningrad → Vladivostok → Panama City → San Lorenzo	→ →	5223384	originally, the Mariya Ulyanova (until 1988); scrapped in 1993
1961	111		Priamurye	FESCO	Vladivostok → Saint John's	→	5383029	originally, the Vladivostok (until 1967); burnt in Port of Osaka on May 18, 1988 and was consequently scrapped[9]
1961	112		Turkmeniya	FESCO	Vladivostok		5371131	scrapped in 1992
1962	113		Sounds of Orient	FESCO	Vladivostok → Panama City	→	5186196	originally, the Khabarovsk, scrapped in 1989
1962	115		Baykal	FESCO	Vladivostok	→	5401352	scrapped in 1998
1963	117	Image	Arm	BLASCO	Odessa	→	5024752	originally, the Armeniya, formerly Odessa Star (1993–1995),[10] scrapped as Arm in July 1995
1964	118		Siritara Ocean Queen	BLASCO	Odessa → Valletta → Panama City → Bangkok	→ → →	5414971	originally, the Bashkiriya, formerly Odessa Song, Royal Dream, Silver Star, Star, * Nandini, Olviara, Ocean Princess;* capsized on the Chao Praya River in Bangkok on October 10, 2006

See also

• List of cruise ships