Yard number 2008 Weight 3,950 tons | Length 136 m Draft 2.9 m | |
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Name Semyon Budyonnyy 1981–present Owner 1981–1994 Volga Shipping Company (ГП Волжское объединённое речное пароходство МРФ РСФСР)1994–2012 Volga Shipping Company (ОАО Волжское пароходство)2012 OOO V. F. Passazhirskiye Perevozki (ООО В.Ф. Пассажирские перевозки)2012–present Vodohod Operator Volga Shipping CompanyVodohod Route Kazan – Samara, Nizhny Novgorod – Kazan, Samara – Volgograd, Kazan – Astrakhan, Kazan – Saint Petersburg, Samara – Rostov-on-Don | ||
The Semyon Budyonnyy (Russian: Семён Будённый) is a Valerian Kuybyshev-class (92-016, OL400) Soviet/Russian river cruise ship, cruising in the Volga basin. The ship was built by Slovenské Lodenice at their shipyard in Komárno, Czechoslovakia, and entered service in 1981. At 3,950 tonnes, Semyon Budyonnyy is one of the world's biggest river cruise ships. Her sister ships are Valerian Kuybyshev, Fyodor Shalyapin, Feliks Dzerzhinskiy, Sergey Kuchkin, Mikhail Frunze, Mstislav Rostropovich, Aleksandr Suvorov and Georgiy Zhukov. Semyon Budyonnyy is currently owned and operated by Vodohod, a Russian river cruise line. Her home port is currently Nizhny Novgorod.
Features
The ship has two restaurants: Ladoga and Onega, two bars, solarium, sauna and resting area.