“Suvorov”, “Tsesarevich Nikolai” slav”, “Oleg”, etc., are called goods and passengers; The former travel the entire route from Nizhny to Astrakhan in less than five full days, the latter take more than a day and a half to do this.
In 1858, Captain Glazenal founded the Samolet steamship company, the brilliant era of prosperity of which began at the end of the 30s with the appearance of the company’s beautiful new light steamships, such as Lermontov, Pushkin, Turgenev, etc.
In 1872, the late Zeveke launched the first huge American steamship of the “Coup” type (later called “Colorado”) onto the Volga. After that, he built several more steamships of the same type, large ones for the lower reaches (for voyages between Nizhny and Astrakhan) and small ones for the upper reaches (flights between Nizhny and Rybinsk). Nowadays this shipping company is called “Society for Shipping and Trade under the company of A. A. Zeveke.” Among the lower-ranking steamships of society, we cannot help but note such excellent steamships in all respects as the Mississippi, Elagara, Missouri and Orinoco.
In addition to the above-mentioned shipping companies operating voyages along the Volga and the Cassian Sea, it is necessary to name another shipping company whose main purpose is voyages along the Kama and Volgf between the mouth of the Kama and Nizhny. Here we should mention the shipping company of VKurbatov (next-daughter of O.P. Karpova), Lyubimov and br. Kamensky. Then there are quite a few steamships owned by various large companies and individuals; Of these, let us perhaps name the steamship “Vashin” owned by the steamship owner Kashin, which operated flights between Nizhny Novgorod and Kazan. Bulychev's steamships operate from Nizhny to Vyatka; From Nizhny to Ufa, Yakimov steamships.
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began its existence several times, especially over the last 10 years; different
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The steamship owners tried to establish at least somewhat regular voyages in the lower section of this stubborn tributary of the Volga, between Vasilsursk and Alatyr (Simbirsk province), but they all ended in failure. According to Akhtub (an important branch of the Volga, separated from it by Tsaritsyn), in 1886 a shipping company began to exist, owned by a partnership of persons serving at the bro. Nobel; Its flights are very insignificant and amount to a length of 55 versts from Tsaritsyn to the village of Prishiba, Tsarevsky federal police station, Astrakhan province.
Turning to official reports regarding digital data relating to the Volga Shipping Company, we can report the following: the steam fleet of the entire Volga basin is about 870 steamships, of which the first place in terms of number is, of course, occupied by tugboats (up to 600), followed by goods and passengers (more than 100), towing and passenger transport (more than 50), service (more than 40), goods and with various other purposes (up to 15). Of all these screw steamships, there are up to a hundred, while the rest are driven by wheels. In general, steam ships were transported on the Volga and its tributaries during the navigation of the last year, according to M.P. 0S., it was 1940.
This is the result of the development of the steamship business on the Volzhek basin, achieved by this business during half a century, counting from the time when the first, successfully constructed, steamship “Falcon” sailed the waves of the great Russian river.
Chapter P.
Lizhny-Novgorod.
Izhey-Novgorod is located along the mountainous bank of the Volga, at the mouth of the Oka; on the low-lying (left bank of the Oka) located part of the city called “Makaryevka”,
consisting of the settlement “Kunavino” and Yarvintage buildings. undulating heights,
on which the Kremlin is picturesquely spread and the old town are called “Dyatlovs”