OLVIA ex-KARELIYA in Lisbon

OLVIA ex-KARELIYA, ex-LEONID BREZHNEV, ex-KARELIYA leaving Lisbon on 26 July 1998 under charter to Primexpress. See another photo and her history here.

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IVAN FRANKO in Lisbon

The Russian passenger liner and cruise ship IVAN FRANKO photographed in Lisbon in the 1980s.
The first of five sisters built in East Germany, IVAN FRANKO was introduced in 1964.
A curious fact is that she was painted with white hull for the builders sea trials, it was only afterwards that she was repainted black. Under Soviet Union operation she was managed and homeported in Odessa, Ukraine.
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DELPHIN ex-BYELORUSSIYA of 1975

In February 1975 I started taking photographs to passengers ships in Lisbon and one of the first brand-new ships I was able to register in film was the BYELORUSSIYA. Thirty one years later she is still around and looking smart, as can be observed on the photos taken at Lisbon on 10 September 2006.
When introduced in early 1975 as the BYELORUSSIYA, the DELPHIN was the first of another series of Soviet passenger ships named after republics of the USSR. In the end five sister were built in Finland and they are all still in service.