Bulgaria on 8 August 2010
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Name |
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Owner | OAO SK Kamskoye Rechnoye Parohodstvo (ОАО СК Камское речное пароходство)[1] |
Port of registry |
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Builder | Slovenské lodenice Komárno a.s. Komárno, Czechoslovakia |
Yard number | 416 |
Launched | 1955 |
Out of service | 10 July 2011 |
Fate | Sunk 10 July 2011 |
General characteristics | |
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Class and type | 785/OL800 (in Slovakia) |
Type | River cruise ship |
Tonnage | 1,003 |
Length | 80.2 m (263 ft) |
Beam | 12.5 m (41 ft) |
Draught | 1.9 m (6.2 ft) |
Decks | 2 |
Installed power | 546 kilowatts (732 hp) |
Propulsion | diesel-electric, two engines[2] |
Speed | 20.5 km/h (12.7 mph; 11.1 kn) |
Capacity | 233 |
Bulgaria (Russian: Булга́рия, romanized: Bulgariya) was a class 785/OL800[2] Russian river cruise ship (built in Komárno, Czechoslovakia) which operated in the Volga-Don basin. On 10 July 2011, Bulgaria sank in the Kuybyshev Reservoir of the Volga River near Syukeyevo, Kamsko-Ustyinsky District, Tatarstan, Russia,[3] with 201[4] passengers and crew aboard[5] when sailing from the town of Bolgar to the regional capital, Kazan.[6] The catastrophe led to 122 confirmed deaths (bodies recovered and identified).[7]
The sinking of Bulgaria was Russia's worst maritime disaster since 1986, when the SS Admiral Nakhimov collided with a cargo ship and 423 people died.[8]
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