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Goal of this site. The site was created to provide a qualitative and various gallery of photographies of modern russian fleet, to generalise information about different types of ships, to study the steps of their development and modifications, to compile the list of existed and existing ships with their history and renamings. On 17-VII-2005 "Russian River Ships" contained: 4458 photos, descriptions of 89 ship types, 107 technical drawings, 257 stamps, badges and other small things.

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Project Infoflot.ru. The site "Russian River Ships" is a part of the information project "Russian river fleet and tourism INFOFLOT.RU". It is the first russian project, which unites the sites about river cargo and passenger fleet of Russia, about river cruise routes and liners, about the history of inland navigation in Russia.

For valuable information, materials and photos, help and interesting correspondence wanted to mention:

Alexander Sosnin, Leonid Akimov, Oleg Chikhirev, Dmitriy Ileskin, Vladislav Prokofyev, Mikhail Arkhipov, Andrey Odintsov, Anatoliy Talygin, Natalya Kosareva, Lena Sysoeva, Andrey Gladkov, Nikolay Morgunov, Vyacheslav Yazykov, Alexander Isachenkov, Dmitriy Shalaev, Alexander & Ekaterina Sklyarov, Sergey Sidorov, Alexander Kondakov, Yuri Krasilnikov, Dmitriy Bachugin, Dmitry Strakhov, Nikolay Kurganskiy, Dmitry Bolotov, Sergey Sakhnovsky, Boris Korol, Alexey Kirillov, Sergey Petukhov, Andrey Efremov, Sergey Merkushev, Sergey Kirsanov, Denis Frolov, Alexander Zheltikov, Pavel Semyonov, Larisa Belousova, Andrey Sokolov, Dmitriy Krapivin, Marina Lapshova, Konstantin Babushkin, Alexey Syomin, Dmitriy Zhurakovskiy, Alexander Ryndin, Alexey Bubnov, Igor Kopaysov, Andrey Golubev, Mikhail Korolev, Svyatoslav Ershov, Alexander Kovrigin, Roman Kamenetskiy, Dmitriy Utkin, Roman Padalko, Dmitriy Kozlov, Yuri Fomin, Dmitriy Petrukhin, Anton Vukolov, Mike Ridgard, Roland Bentin, Wolfgang Kramer, Chris Cheetham, Mark van Rijzen, Ronald Halliday, Johan de Naucler, Paul Mason, Patrick Hill, Barrie Bramhill, Ron Mapplebeck, George Robinson, Cedric Grosjean, Graham Moore, Bernard & Dominic McCall, Bill Worden, Alan Lee, Bill Hoey, Glyn Woods, Terje Moen, Przemek Mrowiec, Nereo Castelli, Vasileios Malliaris, Jordan Seifarth, Dieter Hasselbring, Tuncer Kayikci, Frans Sanderse,

Jozef Kondrcik, the technical director of Slovenske lodenice a.s. Komarno,

Annelie Westphal, from Aker MTW Werft,

and many-many others.