Dear Friends
Allow me to share with all of you, my tribute for the almost unknown Soviet / USSR series of small ocean liners of AZHARIYA class dated from 1926.
Their history as follows:
In 1925 in Leningrad, was founded the Central Bureau of Marine Shipbuilding.
One of the first projects was a passenger ship/liner with cargo capacity to operate in the Crimea-Caucasus line, capable also to operate till Mediterranean for further trading if necessary.
The project was handed over for implementation in the Baltic Shipyard in Leningrad also, for a German shipyard Krupp in Kiel.
Baltic Shipyard build between 1926-1931 the following ships:
1) Azhariya
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2) Abkhazia
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3) Armenia
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4) Ukraine
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