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| Projects 737/205 and 737A |
Description. Steam ships of the projects 737/205 and 737A (type IOSIF STALIN or RYAZAN) are the mid-size wheeled passenger ships, intended for work on passenger and cargo passenger lines. They are the last steamers in the river fleet of the USSR. Ships have single, double, 4- and 8-bed cabins, including those equipped with wash-bowls, two restaurants, two saloons and two saloons with passenger places. During operation big capacity cabins and saloons with passenger places were modernized.
Serial building. The building of the series was begun in the USSR and after several (probably 4) steamers were built it was continued in Hungary. Since 1951 till 1956 about several dozens of units of the project 737 were built. Ships were assigned names after the towns in the USSR and outstanding russian literators.
Distribution. Steam ships of this type were operated: on Volga, Kama, Belaya, Don, Oka, Moscow river, Lena, Ob, Dnieper. Ships worked on routes Moscow - Oka - Gorkiy (Nizhniy Novgorod), Moscow - Ufa, Moscow - Perm and other Volga routes, routes Novosibirsk - Surgut, Kiev - Kherson and others. In 80-ties almost all steamers were written off. One ship burned down in 1995, another one sank in 1999. The passenger line Osetrovo - Yakutsk is the single line where these ships are operated till nowadays. At present time several written off steam ships of the project 737 can be seen in different places on Volga and Dnieper.
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| Characteristics | |
| Year of built and the name of the leading ship | 1951, IOSIF STALIN |
| Mission | cargo passenger steam ship of distant sail |
| Place of built | USSR, Hungary |
| Shipyard |
Kiev shipbuilding plant "Leninskaya Kuznitsa",
Obuda Hajogyar Budapest |
| River Register class |
737/205 - R
737A - O |
| Length / width / draught, m | 72.8 / 15.2 / 1.2 |
| Number of decks | 2 (4) |
| Passenger capacity, pers. | 192 |
| Cargo-carrying capacity, tons |
737/205 - 50
737A - 76 |
| Displacement, tons | 542 |
| Machine power, h.p. | 450 - 520 |
| Speed, km/h | 19 |
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