Barguzin (cruise ship)

History

2025: Launching

In Irkutsk, the Barguzin cruise ship was launched at the East Siberian River Shipping Company shipyard, but the procedure was accompanied by an incident - the ship was hit by a tugboat aft. The cruise ship is 87 meters long and 14.5 meters wide and is designed to accommodate 50 passengers and 44 crew members. The descent took place on July 11, 2025.

According to IrkutskMedia, the Eastern Interregional Investigation Department for Transport of the Investigative Committee of Russia began checking on the fact of a water incident to establish material damage. Videos of the descent were widely shared on social media.

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Фото: East Siberian Territorial Department of Gosmorrechnadzor of MTU Rostransnadzor for Siberian Federal District in telegram

The owner of the cruise ship may be the Moscow company Fortal LLC, which has entered into an agreement with the East Siberian River Shipping Company for the construction of a passenger ship of the RPV8714A project. The deadline for the completion of construction under the contract was set for July 1, 2025.

Fortal LLC has been working since 2015 in the field of inland water passenger transport. The only founder is Yuri Kozlovtsev, who owns 100% of the share with an authorized capital of ₽30,5 thousand.

A number of media outlets suggested that the owner of the vessel could be JSC VSTRP, associated with Eastland Group of Companies. However, the Eastland press service denied this information, saying that their cruise ship is under construction and will be launched no earlier than next year.

The East Siberian River Shipping Company is building two liners of the PV8714 project. In August 2023, the ceremony of laying a cruise ship for the Eastland Group of Companies was held as part of the renewal of the Baikal flotilla. Thus, two vessels of a similar project for different owners are being built simultaneously on the slipways of the shipyard.^[1]

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