Yacht Stalin (12 photos) Bashny.Net

By the noisy and colorful abundance of ships docks Northern river station in Moscow often fits true legend of the Moscow River.
This is a small ship - "Maxim Gorky", which always attracts attention with its "retro-view."
No, it does not become fashionable today pastiche of everything that is kept afloat by old ships, it really is "a veteran».
This ship this year marks 75 years (!), And it is still afloat and not bad looking ...





General information:
The length of the ship: 68, 8 meters.
The width of the ship: 13 m.
Draft: 1, 7 meters.
Height (with raised mast): 12 meters.
Rated speed: 30 km / h.



This boat is often called "Stalin's boat" and not unreasonable. "Maxim Gorky" was built at the factory "Red Sormovo" back in 1933 at the personal order of the leader of the people. At the same time the forces of the various units of the Gulag was conducted active construction of the highway Moscow Canal - the new transport artery of the capital, for the work which needed a new fleet.



Initially, the ship was called "Red Bogatyr". The uniqueness of the building was that the ship was built in the open air, not in the room - especially for him was dug bucket backwater. "Krasny Bogatyr" had become a personal steamer Joseph Stalin, that is, it was a special purpose ship for inland waterways. Scientific industrial potential of the Soviet Union at that time was already quite high, and the ship was used for new housing and power plant of the submarine series "Decembrists". Finishing, installation and commissioning work was carried out before the end of August 1934, and the end result was a magnificent ship, which was launched under the name "Maxim Gorky". To finish the master of the ship was used for more than 17 wood species, including such valuable as mahogany, sycamore, Karelian birch and others. All furniture and home furnishings are designed and created by individual drawings.



Few interior of the ship the sample 2008.



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After the construction of the ship undergoing sea trials in Astrakhan, which set the record for the time riverboat speed - 35 km / h.
On board reconstructed and stylized account of Stalin with wax figures in fact Stalin, Gorky and Kalinin.



I went on board the "bitter" Stalin is not known. Allegedly, he had to go through the newly built channel was on board the "bitter" to assess the extent of the construction. At the opening of the channel, Stalin was, but if he was on this boat ... But Maxim Gorky was resting on the ship in 1935. Besides him, in different years (1936-1941gg.) On the boat rested the first persons of the CPSU - Beria, Khrushchev, Kaganovich, Mikoyan, Ordzhonikidze, Molotov, Malenkov.
During the war the ship was transferred to Kuibyshev, where it waited out the war. Since 1945, "Maxim Gorky" was the destination for Soviet diplomats, various delegations of ministries and departments of the Soviet Union. The ship participated in the whole of Moscow's famous Festival of Youth and Students in 1957. In September 1999, the ship "Maxim Gorky" participated in the parade of ships at the Nizhny Novgorod trade fair, after which he was placed on the quay at the Chkalov stairs on view visitors (as a floating museum). Alas, until that time, the ship had been little work - it was almost all the time in the backwater.



In 2002-2003, it was decided to restore the ship. In 2003, an updated "Maxim Gorky" came to Moscow. It's nice that in the course of modernization have been almost completely preserved and restored his "home interiors».
And today, "Stalin's yacht," ship "Maxim Gorky" works in Moscow. He makes custom walking routes. To get to it, unfortunately, is not easy, but I'm in the last year it is still possible. The current captain of the ship said that with proper care of the ship "Maxim Gorky" may well be right and its 100th anniversary. We wish him good luck!

via alexvess.livejournal.com



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