MS Lastivka
MS Lastivka at the wharf by Proletarska square, Kharkiv | |
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Name: | MS Lastivka (English: Swallow) |
Namesake: | Swallow Bird (from Russian: Ласточка) |
Route: | Rivers of Lopan and Kharkiv |
Builder: | Moscow Shipyard, USSR |
Launched: | 1975 |
In service: | 1975-2005, in Kharkiv - since 1996 |
Out of service: | 2005 |
Renamed: | 1996, former name - Pavlik Morozov |
Homeport: | Kharkiv, Ukraine (heretofore - Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine |
Status: | Burned out |
General characteristics | |
Displacement: | 30 tons |
Length: | 22.4 m (73 ft) |
Beam: | 4.06 m (13.3 ft) |
Height: | 3 metres |
Draught: | <40 centimetres |
Installed power: | 60 horsepower |
Capacity: | About 66 passengers |
Lastivka (Ukrainian: Ластівка, Swallow) or Lastochka (Russian: Ласточка) was the only pleasure motor ship in Kharkiv, Ukraine during its contemporary history. From 1996 till 2005 it carried passengers on the rivers of Lopan and Kharkiv. On 1 April 2005 in daytime the motorship burned out in unclear circumstances.[1]
History
MS Lastivka was built in 1975 at Moscow Shipyard, USSR. Former name of the ship — Pavlik Morozov (homeport Dnipropetrovsk). Until its move to Kharkiv the ship ploughed waters of the Dnieper.
In 1995 by efforts of O. Sazonov MS Pavlik Morozov that had been in a sad state was moved from Dnipropetrovsk to Kharkiv using special 30-meters carriage. Restoration and reconstruction works were conducted on the river of Kharkiv in the other side of Chyhyryn bridge.
References
- ↑ "Допа считает, что не худо бы углубить харьковские речки и пустить туда трамвайчик". Полемика/Polemika. December 10, 2008. Retrieved January 28, 2009.