It’s like a steamship is walking through your heart! River paddle steamer "Stanyukovich".

Boris Vasilievich Kurylev, who passed away in October last year, left a photo archive of passenger ships. Today this photo archive has temporarily moved to our office.

And here the river passenger ships of the past look at us from the photographs. Project 737 paddle steamers are a milestone in the history of many Soviet river shipping companies. Now they are no longer in service, and the life of most of them was short-lived - few of these ships served for more than thirty years. But at one time such vessels were widespread on many Russian rivers. And they were built in large series in the 1950s, filling the need of shipping companies for a passenger fleet after the war. These ships were first built in the USSR, but the bulk of them were built in Hungary.

Boris Vasilyevich photographed many of them during his travels along the river. I publish some photos here. I could talk a lot about each ship, but I will limit myself to only short comments. The photograph at the beginning of this material, taken in 1963, shows the steamer “Perm” of the Kama River Shipping Company.

Steamship "Pavel Bazhov", 1960.

Steamship "Vyacheslav Shishkov". The photograph was apparently taken no later than the mid-sixties, because then the ship was transferred from the Kama Shipping Company to the Dnieper. There, in the early 1970s, he was commanded by Captain Vadim Mikhailovich Lapidus, who later moved to Leningrad and worked as a captain on the four-deck ships Alexander Ulyanov and Sergei Kirov. He was an extraordinary, interesting person, remembered by everyone who had the opportunity to communicate with him. He is always remembered very fondly.

Steamer "Yaroslav Galan" below Gorky, 1959.

Steamboat "V.A. Zhukovsky", Kostroma, June 9, 1965. Who lived at that time, can you remember what you did that day? Oddly enough, sometimes this works. For example, you were on vacation in Yalta. And at that time the steamer “Zhukovsky” was approaching Kostroma with passengers. By the way, the Zhukovsky is a long-lived ship (of course, by the standards of this series): it was one of the last to be decommissioned in the European part of the USSR, after navigation in 1985. Almost all its life the ship sailed on the Moscow-Ufa passenger line. Tickets for the line's ships could be bought at river ticket offices, including in Moscow. And it’s very simple. I came from the street and bought it very inexpensively. Well, not always, of course, but if by chance there was an unassigned place in a six-berth cabin.

I couldn’t help but scan Mayakovsky, since photographs of him are very rare. This steamer operated for only a short time, and then disappeared.

The same thing happens with “Eduard Bagritsky”. Like the Mayakovsky, this ship worked for the Volga-Don Shipping Company in the 1950s.

The steamship "Vladimir Stavsky" in the Aksai electronic warfare department, 1976. Here, a quarter of a century later, the legendary Volga steamships Volodarsky and Spartak ended their lives.

Steamship "Kyiv", 1960.

Steamship "Ivan Kadomtsev", July 1966, Gorky.

Steamship "Anton Makarenko". This ship, unlike its counterparts, which were usually used on transport lines, lived a “tourist” life. For many years, “Anton Makarenko” worked on the “Moscow Around the World” and on other routes with tourists.

Steamship "Volgograd" on the Moscow Canal.

The steamship "Demyan Bedny" on the Moscow River.

The steamship "40 years of the Komsomol" (formerly "Rybinsk"). Most likely, between 1962 (renaming the ship) and 1964 (transfer of the ship to the Dnieper). That is, a rather rare shot in which the already renamed steamship was captured back in the Volga basin.

Steamer "A. Serafimovich", 1963.

Steamship "Ufa". Together with “V.A. Zhukovsky" this ship operated on the Moscow - Ufa line until 1985. And the photograph shows him in his youth, in 1961.

Steamship "Sergeev-Tsensky" in Kasimov.

Steamship "A.P. Chekhov", 1963. During the next navigation he will go to the Dnieper.

Steamship "A.F. Pisemsky" on the Moscow Channel, August 2, 1972. What did you do on this day? I wasn't born yet, but planned to do so within the next few months. Actually, if I’m not mistaken, I was in Kyiv that day. That is, my mother was there, and it turns out that I was too. However, since I have no idea how long before birth the soul enters the body, it is quite possible that on that day I was not in Kyiv, but was enjoying the last days in the subtle worlds before the next incarnation. And, wow, at the same time, just like now, there was a canal named after Moscow, along with passenger steamships and joyful river travelers on the decks. There is a suspicion that all this will happily exist after us.

Steamship "N.G. Pomyalovsky."

Steamship "Sergey Alymov".

Steamship "I.S. Nikitin."

Well, this is just a photo from the deck of the Project 737 steamship approaching the pier.

Steamship "K.M. Stanyukovich" from the deck of some similar ship. Today, this is the only vessel of this type preserved in a tolerable condition in the European part of Russia, but without any special prospects for work.

Steamship "Vladimir Arsenyev".

Steamship "Sverdlovsk"

The steamer "Ryazan" stood idle in front of Bely Gorodok for many years until it burned down. And in the photo he is alive and on a flight with passengers.

Here it is, in a perspective familiar to most river tourists. Approaches Uglich.

The steamship "Evgeniy Petrov" departs from the Volga pier. And behind him, some diesel-electric ship of Project 785 approaches her.

Steamship "Stalingrad" in Gorky. Later it was renamed “Volgograd”, and at that time he worked on the Moscow-Gorky passenger line. The line ran along the Moscow River and Oka River.

These are the photographs of Project 737 steamships that have already become historical. Next time I will scan photographs of ships from a different series. Good evening!

How pleasantly surprised I was when, on the territory of the Gorodets Shipyard, I suddenly saw a real paddle steamer “K.M. Stanyukovich”. So, very close to me, there stood real living and carefully restored history.

In Gorodets I photographed new patterns on board the motor ship "Dmitry Furmanov". I've already talked about these patterns.

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Here they are. Noticeable on the starboard side of the Furmanov.

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And today I’ll show you a very interesting neighbor - the paddle steamer “K.M. Stanyukovich”.

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The paddle steamer "K.M. Stanyukovich" was built in Hungary in 1956 according to project 737A. Until the mid-80s of the last century, the ship was assigned to the Moscow Shipping Company and worked regularly on various passenger lines.

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But in the 80s of the last century, almost all ships were gradually replaced by more modern ships and decommissioned.

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In the late 2000s, a group of enthusiasts tried to restore Stanyukovich.

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We took care of the hull, restored the steam engine, installed a new steam boiler and diesel generator.

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The ship, in this restored form, even passed sea trials. But then the money ran out, and the fate of “K.M. Stanyukovich” is now unclear.

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It is not suitable for cruises - river travelers no longer have the same requirements for comfort, and there are few cabins there.

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It is possible to use it as a banquet, but it is expensive. And also try to find a specialist in working with a steam engine.

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So now the wheeled river steamer “K.M. Stanyukovich” stands idle on the territory of the Gorodets Shipyard.

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Maybe it will be useful for some retro film.

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But it was very interesting to look at it up close.

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While I was looking at “Stanyukovich”, I didn’t notice and climbed into the evil thorns on the shore :)

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What else did you manage to see at the Gorodets Shipyard? Pay attention to Volgoneft-39 located on the right side of the frame. We will return to it later, but for now remember its dimensions: 132.6 meters in length!

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And this is a pontoon bridge that is being built in the city of Pavlovo across the Oka.

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They say that the master rides along it to his lands.

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"UK-5". Boat (Yaroslavets type) of the Moscow City Children's Maritime Center named after Peter the Great. Just like that, I got stuck here in Gorodets.

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But these points on the boat’s hull remained in the field of measuring the thickness of the metal with a special device. At three points of the sheet, the areas are cleaned with a grinder and the residual thickness of the metal is measured. If it is less than the norm, then the sheet is changed.

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Tanker "Volgoneft-39" built in 1969.

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Let's get to it too :)

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The windlass at the stern of the Volgoneft is a contraption with which you can control the anchor and mooring lines.

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There are colored markings on the anchor chain in certain places. They are used to determine the length to which the chain is selected when the armature is released. Well, it helps with the reverse process.

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The photo was taken just under the wheelhouse, and the bow of the tanker is far, far ahead. And how do the navigators control this colossus! Fantastic:)

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Another interesting feature of the tanker is booms. They are a ribbon of blue hollow bags with a load inside. It is mandatory to place these booms around the tanker when loading/unloading fuel. If something happens, the fuel slick will not spread further across the reservoir, but will remain within the boom ring.

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This short excursion happened to me at the Gorodetsky Shipyard in March 2016.

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At the beginning of February, my wife and I and a group of comrades from the ARP forum had the opportunity to visit the steamship of the 737th Ave. "K.M. Stanyukovich", which was being restored by a group of enthusiasts led by Dmitry Petrov. This is my second visit to this vessel, the first took place at the end of August 2007, as part of the 5th annual Conference of river fleet enthusiasts held by the InfoFlot Forum. A lot happened in the time between these events. A lot has been written about the work carried out on the ship itself, so I will not repeat myself, I will only say that the steamer is more and more clearly taking on the appearance of a seaworthy vessel... Here are a few photographs taken during my stay on it this winter.

Here he is, standing behind the old Cheboksary landing stage

The outside of the superstructure is almost ready, all that remains is to paint it

Let's go inside. And what do we see? The central span is very similar to the span of motor ships pr. 305 (in common parlance, “bubble”) - most likely this is due to the unity of the place of construction - the Budapest Obuda plant. The significant difference is that the ladders to the middle deck are much wider and are not installed as steeply as on the “bubbles”.

The main purpose of the ship is banquets, which is why most of its decks are occupied by spacious salons. This one is in the bow of the main deck, in place of the 3rd class multi-berth cabins

We go up to the middle deck. Bow saloon in place of first class cabins and saloon

The middle deck corridor has not yet been finished. Electrical routes and pipelines of the air conditioning system are visible

Middle deck aft salon. Where the metal profiles for installing the bulkheads are piled up, there will be an open spiral staircase to the main deck, to a large restaurant.

Electrical panel for lighting and household consumers.

Let's go upstairs. Wheelhouse and original steering gear control drive.

One of the 4-bed crew cabins.

Now we go to the engine room. The first thing we see is the steam lines and cylinders of the main machine

Crankshaft and camshaft

Let's go lower. Directly in front of us is the low pressure cylinder, the high pressure cylinder is located behind it.

Main exhaust steam condenser

Steam engine frame. At the top is the camshaft.

Central lubrication station

Drive pumps of the main machine - condensate and reserve-feed.

Cylinders and steam lines

Feeding electric pumps

160 kW starboard diesel generator. The second one is installed on the left side.

Fire pump NCV 63/80

Fuel separator

The main boiler on the ship is new, built in Czechoslovakia

Its technical characteristics

His burner

On the top platform of the boiler room

Let's look up...

The paddle wheel was firmly frozen into the ice. But soon spring will come, the ice will melt, steam will be given to the car and then...

Plate (blade) and eccentric rod

Propeller shaft and eccentric

Engine room area. Steam steering engine.

The boats from the ship are currently stacked in the landing stage, but soon they will take their regular place...

Thank you, comrade “Stanyukovich” for your hospitality, and you, Dmitry Petrov, for an interesting excursion. I hope this was not our last meeting!

Last Friday, on the river paddle steamer "Stanyukovich", two years after, the steam engine was again "fired up".

Of course, I couldn’t miss such an interesting event!

This time the car was already running at full speed, and let me tell you, it was an epic sight! Soon I will put together and show a video where all the machinery is captured in its magnificent action.

In the meantime, here are a few photos...

First, however, I’ll say a few more words.
The process of reconstruction and “revival” of the ship, unfortunately, has slowed down somewhat, but has not stopped at all! The engine room and boiler room are becoming more and more equipped with new installed systems, and are becoming more and more photogenic :-)

Very recently, a very important job was completed - the installation of a new main steam pipeline (during the first test of the machine, it turned out that the original design for the reconstruction of the steam pipeline was unsuccessful, and it had to be redone).

So, let's take a look at the boiler room first.

View of the top of the boiler and the superheated and “wet” steam collectors.
The cylindrical tank on the right is a deaerator.

Here's a view from the opposite side:

Here, right along the diagonal of the frame, the main steam pipeline runs, smoothly bending.
Through it, superheated steam from the boiler (from the valve on the right) enters the running steam engine.
On the left is a thinner steam line for “wet” steam, which goes to auxiliary mechanisms - a steam steering engine, a steam capstan and windlass, as well as a whistle.

A superheated steam collector with various instrumentation and sensors installed on it.

Another view of the boiler and steam lines.
By the way, two shafts of the boiler room are clearly visible here, which, piercing the second deck, go out onto the roof of the setup - daylight pours in from there (and creates a terrible problem with the white balance :-D)

Here is the starboard shaft, and the chimney from the boiler going up along it (in the background, large in diameter):

Well, at the top, on the roof of the superstructure, the shaft is closed with a lantern with hatches like this:

But this is what we will see if we look into the mine from above. But we were just down there! :-)

Since we're still on the roof of the superstructure, let's take a look into the wheelhouse!
This is where the ship will be controlled from!

The mechanical machine telegraph has not yet been put into place.
He's waiting quietly in the corner :-)

Now let's go back down to the engine room!

Here is a “steam power steering”, a steering steam engine.

Toothy gears! :-D

We go even lower - and here it is, the Machine!
More precisely, its two cylinders.

And here is the workplace of the watch mechanic.
Essentially - a "steam engine control panel" %)

The shiny lever handle at the top right is the drive of the main stop valve, which regulates the steam pressure at the inlet of the machine ("quality regulation" is carried out). It is used for short-term changes in the operating mode of the machine (during maneuvers, changes in speed).
On the left you can see a large vertical lever with a locking gear sector. This is a cut-off regulator, which is used to regulate the amount of steam entering the cylinder with each stroke of the piston ("quantitative regulation"). In essence, they set the long-term operating mode of the machine. In addition, this is a “reverse” lever - with its help the steam distribution mechanism switches to “forward” or “backward” motion.
Well, there are also important levers that are noticeable in the lower right corner of the frame - this is the drive for the cylinder purge valves. With their help, the condensate that accumulates in the cylinders is periodically removed.

Well, above all this splendor we see the receiver of a mechanical machine telegraph, which, in fact, transmits orders from the wheelhouse to the mechanic to change the course.

That's the mechanics! ;-)

These are automatic lubricators.

They, as the name implies, supply oil to all rubbing parts of the machine.
When the crankshaft rotates, the drive levers “sway” back and forth, and the lubricators pump oil into a system of copper oil lines that encircle the entire machine.

Well, now, in conclusion, a couple of views from the deck of the ship:

And also - a steam whistle!

And the paddle wheel in action! :-)

Taking photographs of a steam engine at work is not a very interesting activity.

Therefore, in fact, all the most “delicious” - “soon on video”! ;-)

Russia was once famous for its numerous paddle steamers, there were literally hundreds of them, but only the N.V. Gogol, based in Severodvinsk, and two ships in Yakutia, the Krasnoyarsk and Blagoveshchensk, survived the disaster of the 90s.

Almost all the other “wheels” were destroyed - sawn into metal, burned in fires started by homeless people who settled in them, or simply rotted due to lack of care. However, there are still adherents of the romance of wheeled ships in the country. In 2005, they decided to find and “revive” at least one more such ship suitable for restoration.
A long search eventually led to Shlisselburg, where the remains of the steamship "K.M. Stanyukovich" were rusting at rest near the bank of the Neva. Having bought these remains and patched up the hull, the ship was towed to the Gorodets shipyard near Nizhny Novgorod.

The ruins of the steamship "Dostoevsky", on which the film "Cruel Romance" was filmed. It was the original candidate for restoration, but just a couple of weeks before the planned towing to the shipyard, the ship burned down.

In 2006, the restoration of “Stanyukovich” began, which is still ongoing. In 2007, the superstructure walls, decks and bulkheads were rebuilt. In 2008, after a 20-year break, the steam engine was restarted, the steering was repaired and a new paddle wheel was installed to replace the lost one. In 2009, the installation of electrical equipment, diesel generators, ventilation systems, water supply, etc. began. Then we started finishing.

Initially, it was planned to complete the reconstruction by 2010, but, unfortunately, the crisis and its consequences greatly slowed down the pace of work. Now "Stanyukovich" is still standing at the quay wall of the Gorodets Shipyard, but its appearance is radically different from what it was six years ago. I hope that the protracted epic of the resurrection of this “wheelie” will end in the foreseeable future.

This is what Stanyukovich was like half a century ago. In the top photo it departs from the pier of the Northern River Station in Moscow.
This flat-bottomed, double-deck river steamer was built at the Budapest shipyard Obuda Hajogyar in 1956 according to the so-called project No. 737 (Joseph Stalin type). In total, the USSR received 70 such ships from Hungary. Five more were built in Nikolaev.
Ship length - 68 m, displacement - 518 tons, draft - 1.2 m, crew - 50 people, passenger capacity - 360 people, engine power - 450 hp, maximum speed - 19 km/h.

And this is what it looked like in 2006 before being towed to Gorodets.

The bottom has been repaired, completely rusted plating sheets have been replaced with new ones.

Photo from 2010. The superstructures, left paddle wheel, captain's bridge, rudder blade, wheelhouse and chimney were restored.

Recreated boiler room. In the center is the main steam boiler running on fuel oil. On the left is a cranked chimney.

Wheelhouse with steering wheel. The machine telegraph and other equipment have not yet been installed. On the left is the emergency shutdown lever for the steam engine.

Work has begun on finishing the forward salon, which will house one of the ship's two restaurants.

When finished, it will look something like this. A photograph of a restaurant on a similar Hungarian steamship is shown.

This is what “Stanyukovich” has become now, photo taken in June 2013.