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Rossiya-class motorship

class of Russian motorships

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ1627712 ↗
Source-derived summary

Rossiya class is a class of Russian river passenger ships, project 785. "Rossiya" means "Russia" in Russian.

Two-deck cruise ships manufactured in Komárno, Czechoslovakia, 1952–1958. The shipyard's designation: OL800 (osobna lod - passenger motor ship 800 h.p.).

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“Rossiya-class motorship” enters the record as class of Russian motorships. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Rossiya-class, motorship and class can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1952, 1958—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Rossiya-class, motorship and class.
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This entry incorporates text from “Rossiya-class motorship” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.