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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. All those who are interested in it are welcome to make contributions to this site, even those who had simply photographed river ships and is ready now to share his photos with others. 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. Any revisions, additions, corrections of mistakes will be accepted gratefully. If searching for some information, that cannot be found at the site, please use E-Mail.

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Me:
Aleksey S. Yablonskiy

Born:
July 13, 1977

Live:
Russia, Moscow, Maryina Roshcha

Studied:
Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Cybernetics faculty;
Institute of Control Sciences post-graduate;
Ph.D.

Specialities:
Automated data processing and control systems; Information systems and processes

Work:
JSC "New Information Systems and Technologies" ("NIST")

Wanted to mention...

Helena M. Tsybina - for all good.

For valuable information, materials and photos, help and interesting correspondence:

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.

As well as:

Oksana Panfilova - for my new look on life.

Alexander Zhezhelevsky, Dmitri Ponyatovsky, Alexander Shishilov, Denis Kuleshov and some other my classmates from Moscow Engineering Physics Institute - for the nonbad company and the beer drunk during student years.

Colleagues from the JSC "NIST" - for the good team at my job.

Oleg Bastunsky - simply so.

VEB Elbewerften Boizenburg / Rosslau - for the project 301.

"Moscow - Efes" brewery - for the "Staryy Melnik" beer.

Douwe Egberts, Kraft Jacobs Suchard and Nestle S.A. - for the night and morning coffee.

Ostankino milk plant - for the pasteurized milk, 3.2% rich.

Emir Kusturica - for "Chrna Macka, Beli Macor".

Goran Bregovic - for "Ederlezi".

U2 - for "With Or Without You".

Depeche Mode - for "Never Let Me Down Again".

Riga Dept. of the Moscow Railway - for the noise outside of my window.