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Paddler Information => Preserved Paddle Ships => Topic started by: Roderick Smith on November 07, 2006, 12:04:01 AM
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This is extracted from the prospectus of a proposed 2005 tour by a USA group. The trip was deferred to 2006, then to May 07. The organiser is a Paddleducker, so the details should appear when the plans are finalised.
The last route in the world where sidewheel steamers provide point-to-point transportation to towns and villages, some of which have no access by road. Two paddle steamers of 1957, built in Budapest, serve the route from Ust-Kut (Osetrovo) to Yakutsk on Lena River. The downriver voyage takes ~5 days.
Regards,
Roderick B Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor
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Great to hear about the trip Roderick - Sounds very interesting, but sadly even if it comes off I won't be able to make it... Too many family problems to deal with that prevent trips away for more than a couple of days :(
I'm sure it would be the trip of a lifetime, so it will be a shame to miss it, but hopefully someone that goes will take LOTS of photos and report back to us here?
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Here is a b&w of a paddlesteamer in Moskva, used as a floating restaurant (and do note that its name is not Pectopah; this is the cyrillic for restaurant, transliterating as Restoran). On the day when I was going to eat aboard the power was off, and the owner took me out to lunch in a basement restaurant in the old part of the city. I don't know if it could cruise in summer.
Bill W has advised me: 'This is likely N A Dobrolyubov, one of the same 737 class as the Lena River steamers. Her career ended when she burned, but I don't know the date of the fire. She's the only 737 which seems to be listed as having served as a restaurant at Moscow; the restaurant name was apparently something like Bourgas'.
Regards,
Roderick B Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor
updated 20.11.06
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This website shows details of these type 737 paddlers, mainly built at Budapest in the fifties
http://www.riverships.ru/english/specs/?grp=737 (http://www.riverships.ru/english/specs/?grp=737)
while this is the photo gallery index page on this site
http://www.riverships.ru/english/photographies.shtml (http://www.riverships.ru/english/photographies.shtml)
You have to dig around a bit here to get paddler photos here
http://www.riverships.ru/english/albums/ileskin_2.shtml (http://www.riverships.ru/english/albums/ileskin_2.shtml)Â has some and there are other dotted around other entries in the list
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From: Roderick Smith (preserved@paddleducks.co.uk)
To: preserved@paddleducks.co.uk (preserved@paddleducks.co.uk)
Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2006 10:05 AM
Subject: RE: Russian paddlesteamers
Here is a b&w of a paddlesteamer or paddle vessel in Moskva, used as a floating restaurant (and do note that its name is not Pectopah; this is the cyrillic for restaurant, transliterating as Restoran). On the day when I was going to eat aboard the power was off, and the owner took me out to lunch in a basement restaurant in the old part of the city. I don't know if it can cruise in summer, and what the propulsion was/is.
The colour photo doesn't show the paddle wheels.
Probably this was from my 1985-86 holiday.
Regards,
Roderick B Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor
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Bill has informed me by direct e-mail that the decommissioned PS, used as a floating restaurant on Moskva Canal, has been destroyed by fire. Here is the colour photo which I took. About eight of the original nationwide fleet of 76 were decommissioned in the Moskva area.
Regards,
Roderick B Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor
updated 21.11.06
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Paddlesteamer "St.Nicolay". Krasnoyarsk. Enisey river
(http://www.krasplace.ru/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/common-ship.jpg)
http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=ru&tl=en&u=http://www.krasplace.ru/paroxod-svyatitel-nikolaj (http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=ru&tl=en&u=http://www.krasplace.ru/paroxod-svyatitel-nikolaj)
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http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=ru&tl=en&u=http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B2%D1%8F%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C_%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B9_(%D0%BF%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%85%D0%BE%D0%B4-%D0%BC%D1%83%D0%B7%D0%B5%D0%B9) (http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=ru&tl=en&u=http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B2%D1%8F%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C_%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B9_(%D0%BF%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%85%D0%BE%D0%B4-%D0%BC%D1%83%D0%B7%D0%B5%D0%B9))
googlemaps link (http://maps.google.ru/maps?q=%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%BD%D0%BE%D1%8F%D1%80%D1%81%D0%BA&hl=ru&ui=maps&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B4+%D0%9A%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%BD%D0%BE%D1%8F%D1%80%D1%81%D0%BA,+%D0%9A%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%BD%D0%BE%D1%8F%D1%80%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9+%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B9&ll=56.010538,92.894876&spn=0.002429,0.004823&t=h&z=18)
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It's happening, but what remains to be visited?
http://siberiantimes.com/business/investment/features/introducing-the-great-new-siberian-railway-opening-soon.
I can't find the post from Bill which suggests tourism charter only, not route service.
Roderick B Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor