"LENIN" Riverboat Ship on a postage stamp issued by the Soviet Union in 1981

LENIN Riverboat Ship

Postage stamp issued by the Soviet Union in 1981.

The Lenin riverboat began construction at Gorky's Krasnoe Sormovo shipyard in 1952, under the name Stalin. Work was stopped between 1953 and 1955, after the death of Stalin, and resumed in 1958. Named Lenin, this elegant ship, powered by diesel and electric engines, was delivered in 1959 to the shipping company VORP (Volzhskoje Obedinjonnye Retchnoje Parochodstvo - Volga United River Shipping Company), and was assigned to the long regular line between Moscow and the Caspian Sea via the Moscow Canal, the Oka River, Nizhny-Novgorod and the Volga River to Astrakhan.

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