Black Sea Shipping Company

History

Leaders of the Black Sea Shipping Company

• 1928—1931 — F. I. Matveyev
• 1931—1934 — Boris Matveyevich Zanko
• 1934—1935 — P. P. Koval
• 1935—1937 — Genrikh Yakovlevich Magon
• 1937 — Andrey Sergeyevich Polkovskiy
• 25.11.1938—15.05.1939 — Semyon Ivanovich Tyomkin
• 1939—1941 — Georgiy Afanasiyevich Mezentsev
• 1942 — Ivan Georgiyevich Syryh
• 1941—1944 — Pahom Mihailovich Makarenko
• 1956—1972 — Aleksey Yevgeniyevich Danchenko — The favorite leader of the Black Sea Shipping Company sailors.
• 1972—1975 — A. V. Goldobenko
• 1975—1978 — Oleg Konstantinovich Tomas
• 1978—1986 — Stanislav Aleksandrovich Lukiyanchenko
• 1986—1992 — Viktor Vasiliyevich Pilipyenko
• 1992—1994 — Pavlo Kudyukin
• 1994—1995 — Oleksiy Koval
• 1995—1997 — Oleksandr Stohniyenko
• 1997—1998 — Oleksandr Diordiyev
• 1998—2000 — Serhiy Melashchenko
• 2000—2002 — Borys Shcherbak
• 2002—2004 — Mykhailo Mazovskyi
• 2004—2009 — Yevhen Kozhevin

  Vessels fleet

Ports and harbours of operation

• Constellation of the Black Sea basin :
• * Odessa
• * Chornomorsk
• * Yuzhne
• River ports:
• * Mykolaiv Sea port
• * Kherson Sea port
• * Bilhorod-Dnistrovsky
• Crimea ports
• * Yalta
• * Alushta
• * Feodosiya

• Novorossiysk
• Tuapse

Ships of Black Sea Shipping Company

List of ships

• Volzhskiy class cargo ship:

1. Aleksandr Lebed

• Volgo-Don class cargo ship:

1. Catharine
2. Chalsi
3. Vasiliy Tatischev

• Chelsea class cargo ship:

1. Chelsea-1
2. Chelsea-2
3. Chelsea-3
4. Chelsea-4
5. Chelsea-5
6. Chelsea-6
7. Chelsea-7

• Ganz class floating cranes:

1. Stryzh

   List of ships used with Saluta Shipping

• Volgo-Don class cargo ship:

1. Corvus
2. Evgenia Z
3. Nikolay Meshkov

   List of former ships

Passengers ships

• Ex. Nazi Germany passenger ships which were received by the Soviet Union as per the Allies Agreement:

1. Admiral Nakhimov
2. Admiral Ushakov
3. Rossia
4. Pobeda
5. Ukraina

• Other purchased passenger ships

1. Pyotr Velikiy, previously Polish

• Ivan Franko class passenger ships:

1. MS Shota Rustaveli
2. MS Ivan Franko

• Belorussiya-class cruiseferry:'''

1. MS Belorussiya
2. MS Gruziya
3. Azeibarzhan

   Cargo ships

4. Коммунист, ex. UK ship Regimen. From 14.01.1942 the ship was included in Black Sea Naval Force fleet and was lost on 24.02.1942, due to World War II.
5. Передовик . The ship was built in the Soviet Union in 1939, transferred in 1951 to the Far East Shipping Company.

• Ex. Germany cargo ships which were taken by Soviet Union as per the Alias Agreament:
• Belorussia-class cargo ships or West-class. Total 11 general cargo ships of this class were transferred from Far East Shipping Company to Black Sea Shipping Company:

1. Белоруссия
2. Восток
3. Лермонтов
4. Плеханов
5. Тарас Шевченко
6. Вторая Пятилетка
7. Иркутск
8. Караганда. This ship was used on the line between Black Sea Soviet ports and India ports.
9. Кавказ
10. Омск
11. Аргунь, ex. US ship West Modus from 1919 to 1942,.

• Kolomna-class cargo ships, - total 2 ships of this class ships were in Black Sea Shipping Company:

1. Nezhin
2. Smela

• Divnogorsk-class cargo ships

1. SS Divnogorsk
2. SS Mednogorsk

• Leninsky Komsomol class cargo ships, - total 25 ships

1. SS Leninsky Komsomol
2. SS Metallurg Baykov
3. SS Fizik Kurchatov
4. SS Metallurg Anosov
5. SS Bratstvo
6. and others

• Slavyansk-class cargo ships or Slanyanye-class cargo ships were built in Soviet Union:

1. Slanyansk
2. Sarny

• Liberty class cargo ships. In addition to 40 Liberty ships purchased the Soviet Union under Lend-Lease during World War II. 10 vessels of this type were purchased for the Black Sea State Shipping Company from Europe in 1963:

1. Алатау
2. Авача
3. Бештау
4. Дарьял,ех. George Whitefield which was built at the "Southeastern Shipbuilding Corporation" shipyard in 1943 and sold to Norway in 1947 and changed name to Wilford, then sold to Italy in 1957 and changed name to Orata. The ship was purchased by Soviet Union in 1963 and scrapped in 1977.
5. Карпаты
6. Хибины
7. Машук
8. Саяны
9. Сихотэ-Алинь
10. Малахов Курган

• Kommunist-class cargo ships were built in East Germany:

1. Fridrikh Engels
2. Rosa Luksemburg
3. Ernst Telman , IMO 7023269
4. Toyvo Antikaynen