Mstislav Rostropovich
The Mstislav Rostropovich () (former Mikhail Kalinin) is a "Valerian Kuybyshev"-class (92-016, OL400) Soviet/Russian river cruise ship, cruising in the Volga basin. The ship was built by Slovenské Lodenice at their shipyard in Komárno, Czechoslovakia, and entered service in 1981. At 3,953 tonnes, "Mstislav Rostropovich" is one of the world's biggest river cruise ships. Her sister ships are "Valerian Kuybyshev", "Mikhail Frunze", "Feliks Dzerzhinskiy", "Fyodor Shalyapin", "Sergey Kuchkin", "Aleksandr Suvorov", "Semyon Budyonnyy" and "Georgiy Zhukov". "Mstislav Rostropovich" is currently owned by Vodohod and operated by Vodohod for foreign tourists. Her home port is currently Nizhny Novgorod.