Russia's River Shipping/Речное судоходство России

Издание на английском языке
The prestigeous-advertising album “River Fleet of Russia is at Your Service” contains data on the history of the Russian river fleet development from the oldest times to the present days. An outburst of tourism and cruising, the yearning of millions of people for the knowledge of their motherland and foreign countries will attract a wide circle of readers to the present edition.
The album does not claim to be a scientific work and cannot compete with guide-books. This edition consists of a series of free-style assays, in which the authors worked as if cooperating sometimes with historians and art and literary critics, sometimes with the river transport commercial and administrative bodies. Concise information about vessels designs from the oldest ones to the most modern ones, about the waterways development and about the potentialities of the modern river transport of Russia is presented in the album. The readers will get an idea about the regions and the tourist routes coming through them, about the towns and the monuments, the treasures of Russian architecture, about folklore singing, reflecting the history of the country’s water transport.
The edition contains many illustrations, which will arouse the riders’ lively interest. Rare illustrations, some of which are published for the first time, to the authors’ mind raise the scientific and practical importance of the prestigeous advertising album, make it more useful to the specialists and more interesting for a wide circle of readers.

Contents
Preface
The first Slavic ships
"Ladya" - type boats
IX-XVI century boats
Flat-bottomed boat development
The first boats of “barka” type
The shipbuilding creativeness in the Volga region
Burlachestvo - a significant period in the history of shipping
Shipbuilding during the reign of Peter the Great
M. V. Lomonosov and his contribution to the development of the fleet of Russia
Shipbuilding and shipping on the Volga river during the reign of Catherine the Second
Ivan Petrovich Kulibin and his invention
Horse-driven machines
The earliest steamboats with steel hull
The “cabestans” - steamboats of the middle 19th century
“Toner” - a particular type of a boat
The towing fleet development
Passenger fleet
Shipping companies
Steam shipbuilding development
The first river school on the Volga
From the history of oil cargo transportation
Russia is the native land of motor shipbuilding
The inland waterways of Russia from old time to the present century
Ports, shipbuilding and shiprepair plants before 1917
The river transport after 1917
Moscow
The northern passenger terminal
The Moskva-Volga canal
Along the Volga
Tver
Uglitch
Yaroslavl
Kostroma
Plyos
Gorodets
Nizhniy Novgorod
Cheboksary
Kazan
Ulyanovsk
Samara
Saratov
Volgograd
Astrakhan
Along the Don rivers
Rostov-on-Don
Along the Oka rivers
Along the Belaya and Kama rivers
Perm
Ufa
Along the Volga-Baltic waterway
Across Karelia
Petrozavodsk
The Onega
Kizhi
Along the Svir river
The Ladoga lake
Valaam
Leningrad
Along the Severnaya Dvina
Arkhangelsk
Along the Ob and Irtysh rivers
Novosibirsk
Surgut
Khanty-Mansiysk
Omsk
Tobolsk
Along the Yenisey river
Krasnoyarsk
Along the Baikal
Irkutsk
Along the Lena river
Yakutsk
Along the Amur river
Khabarovsk
Passenger displacement ships and hovercrafts and hydrofoils