MS Lastivka

MS Lastivka at the wharf by Proletarska square, Kharkiv
History
Ukraine
Name: MS Lastivka (English: Swallow)
Namesake: Swallow Bird (from Russian: Ласточка)
Route: Rivers of Lopan and Kharkiv
Builder: Moscow Shipyard, USSR
Launched: 1975
In service: 1975-2005, in Kharkiv - since 1996
Out of service: 2005
Renamed: 1996, former name - Pavlik Morozov
Homeport: Kharkiv, Ukraine (heretofore - Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine
Status: Burned out
General characteristics
Displacement: 30 tons
Length: 22.4 m (73 ft)
Beam: 4.06 m (13.3 ft)
Height: 3 metres
Draught: <40 centimetres
Installed power: 60 horsepower
Capacity: About 66 passengers

Lastivka (Ukrainian: Ластівка, Swallow) or Lastochka (Russian: Ласточка) was the only pleasure motor ship in Kharkiv, Ukraine during its contemporary history. From 1996 till 2005 it carried passengers on the rivers of Lopan and Kharkiv. On 1 April 2005 in daytime the motorship burned out in unclear circumstances.[1]

History

MS Lastivka was built in 1975 at Moscow Shipyard, USSR. Former name of the ship — Pavlik Morozov (homeport Dnipropetrovsk). Until its move to Kharkiv the ship ploughed waters of the Dnieper.

In 1995 by efforts of O. Sazonov MS Pavlik Morozov that had been in a sad state was moved from Dnipropetrovsk to Kharkiv using special 30-meters carriage. Restoration and reconstruction works were conducted on the river of Kharkiv in the other side of Chyhyryn bridge.

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