[Dmitry Markov]

That's fantastic!! We also have a museum of a civilian river fleet in Nizhny Novgorod, but it doesn't have a museum ships as exhibits - only models - and that's a shame 'cause for Russia/USSR importancy of river transportation was also quite great and many classical masterpieces of literature are referred to steam ships on rivers, or take place on them. Just as Mark Twain's connection to river steam ships - for a parallel in American literature. Of non-sea vessels only a lake-icebreaker Angara is stored as a museum ship in Irkutsk (AFAIK). So that would be cool if one day we'd see a full-scale exposition with real ships - sadly now we can only feel envy looking at these wonderful pics You've made :-)