Vodohod is a Russian cruise company and river cruise line operator, founded in 2004 by the Volga Shipping Company and named after Ivan Kulibin’s “water-going vessel” or “water-goer”. The company has its headquarters in Moscow and Saint Petersburg, Russia. After merging with Volga Flot Tour company operates more than 50 passenger ships along rivers of Volga, Don, Kama, the Moscow and Volga-Don canals, the Volga–Baltic Waterway, Northern–Western rivers, lakes Ladoga and Onega.[1]
The company is also planning the launch of two, twin Finnish-built expedition ships under the codename Project Vega [2] for delivery in 2021 and 2022.
The company is in the top three companies [3] (along with Mosturflot and Infoflot) of the consolidated Russian river cruise market (the first five companies carry about 80% of the total passenger traffic [4]).
Since 1999, a subsidiary of the Volga Shipping Company, the river tourism company Volga-Flot-Tour,[5] has been established. This date is considered the year of foundation of the cruise company.[6]
In 2011, there was a consolidation of companies into private limited company Vodohod,[7] which were in the shipping passenger division of the international transport holding UCL Holdingrude — Volgo-Balt Transport Holding (VBTH):[8] "Volga-Flot-Tour", private limited company Vodohod-Moscow (a full-cycle shipping and travel company[9]) and private limited company Vodohod-St. Petersburg (a cruise shipping company and travel agent for sea and river cruises). In 2017, the company withdrew from the UCLH holding.[10]
"Vodohod-Saint-Petersburg" was established in 2004 on the basis of the St. Petersburg branch of Volga-Fleet-Tour PLC and operated in the North-West of Russia. In 2006, the company "Vodohod-Saint-Petersburg" transported about 400 thousand passengers by the high-speed fleet to the historical suburbs of St. Petersburg.
According to Kommersant, in 2016 (as part of VBTH) Vodohod transported 497,000 passengers. According to SPARK, the revenue of Vodohod in 2015 according to RAS is 2.6 billion rubles, net profit is 55 million rubles.
Co-owners of the company are Riskhat Bahautdinov and Vladimir Kasanenko (100% of shares). The general director of the company is Rishate Bagautdin.[11]
The fleet of the company "Vodohod" has:
From 2017, commissioned by the company at the "Krasnaya Sormovo" steam-ship of mixed swimming has laid on the rivers and seas "Prince Vladimir" — the second vessel of the PV300 project, developed by the company "Marine Engineering Bureau—CPb".[14] This is the first passenger ship built on the Russian shipyard over the past 60 years. The operation of the four-panel liner began, but he received another name, "Karim Mustay".[15] [16] The vessel is calculated on 342 passengers.[17]
Courts go under the Russian flag, are owned by the company. The home ports of the ships sailing under the Russian flag are Nizhny Novgorod and Saint Petersburg.[18] [19] [20]
| Valerian Kuybyshev-class motorships (Project 92-016) | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month and year of build | Hull No[21] | Image | Name | Captain | Crew | Owned by Vodohod since | Status | |
| December 1975 | 2001 | Valerian Kuybyshev | Aleksandr Gribov | February 2012 | ||||
| 1977 | 2002 | Fyodor Shalyapin | Aleksandr Gromov | March 2012 | originally, the Kliment Voroshilov | |||
| 1978 | 2003 | Feliks Dzerzhinskiy | Mikhail Kucherov | February 2012 | ||||
| 1979 | 2004 | Sergey Kuchkin | March 2012 | originally, the Georgiy Dimitrov | ||||
| April 1980 | 2005 | Mikhail Frunze | Aleksandr Sainov | February 2012 | ||||
| 1981 | 2006 | Mstislav Rostropovich | March 2012 | originally, the Mikhail Kalinin | ||||
| 1981 | 2007 | Aleksandr Suvorov | Igor Burenkow | February 2012 | ||||
| 1981 | 2008 | Semyon Budyonnyy | Vitaly Kisten | March 2012 | ||||
| April 1983 | 2009 | Georgiy Zhukov | Viktor Progorshnev | February 2012 | ||||
| Vladimir Ilyich-class motorships (Project 301) | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month and year of build | Hull No[22] | Image | Name | Captain | Crew | Owned by Vodohod since | IMO | Status |
| July 1976 | 329 | Konstantin Korotkov | Aleksandr Vladimirovich Silantyev | February 2012 | 7515432 | originally, the Sovetskaya Ukraina, | ||
| September 1977 | 332 | Nizhniy Novgorod | Vladimir Vassilyevich Chervyakov | February 2012 | 7617785 | originally, the Sovetskaya Rossiya, | ||
| April 1980 | 339 | Konstantin Fedin | Mikhail Stepanov | February 2012 | 8031354 | |||
| November 1980 | 371 | Vissarion Belinskiy | Aleksandr Nikolaevich Protasyev | March 2012 | 8031378 | |||
| August 1981 | 373 | Nikolay Chernyshevskiy | February 2012 | 8131520 | ||||
| May 1982 | 375 | Aleksandr Radishchev | Vassily Nikolaevich Meshkov | February 2012 | 8225682 | |||
| Dmitriy Furmanov-class motorships (Project 302) | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month and year of build | Hull No | Image | Name | Captain | Crew | Owned by Vodohod since | IMO | Status |
| September 1984 | 382 | Konstantin Simonov | February 2012 | 8422618 | ||||
| April 1985 | 383 | Leonid Sobolev | February 2012 | 8501000 | ||||
| July 1986 | 387 | Zosima Shashkov | Vladimir Vitalyevich Mironov | 98 | February 2012 | 8620090 | ||
| May 1987 | 389 | Rus | February 2012 | 8707666 | ||||
| June 1987 | 390 | Lenin | February 2012 | 8707678 | ||||
| September 1988 | 394 | Georgiy Chicherin | Alexei Yuryevich Tsaryov | 102–110 | February 2012 | 8822507 | ||
| Maksim Gorkiy-class motorships (Project Q-040) | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month and year of build | Hull No | Image | Name | Captain | Crew | Owned by Vodohod since | IMO | Status |
| April 1974 | K704 | Maksim Gorkiy | Sergey Batyalov[24] | 66 | February 2012 | |||
| October 1974 | K705 | Aleksandr Pushkin | Aleksandr Sorochkin[25] | 66 | February 2012 | |||