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Valerian Kuybyshev-class motorship

Russian river cruise ship

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ1328005 ↗
Source-derived summary

Valerian Kuybyshev class is a class of Russian river passenger ships. It got name after the first ship of class Valerian Kuybyshev.

Four-deck cruise ships manufactured in Komárno, Czechoslovakia, 1976–1983.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Valerian Kuybyshev-class motorship” as russian river cruise ship. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Valerian, Kuybyshev-class and motorship.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1976, 1983—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Valerian, Kuybyshev-class and motorship providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Valerian Kuybyshev-class motorship”, the useful work is to connect “russian river cruise ship” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1328005. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1976 and 1983.

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This entry incorporates text from “Valerian Kuybyshev-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.