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    Why has Russia never build Ocean Liners?

    Aristide
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    Post  Aristide Sun Nov 11, 2018 11:18 am

    I find that interesting. France always was one of the leading nations to build ocean liners.

    They always belonged to the finest ships on the seas.

    Like The SS France

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    She had her maiden voyage in 1912, few days after the Titanic sunk.

    Her interior was absolute awesome

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    Another one build in the 1930th was the SS Normandie. This ship was the largest, fastest and most stylish ocean liner in its day

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    The entire style was art deco

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    Beside those classic liners France still leads today with the best liners on the seas

    The ships of Ponant for example are a class for their own

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    Its interesting that all great Nations have something like this. The UK, France, Germany, even Italy but Russia never had a culture of such things.
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    Post  JohninMK Sun Nov 11, 2018 11:22 am

    Why would it? Russia was never a traditional maritime nation.
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    Post  PapaDragon Sun Nov 11, 2018 1:36 pm


    Funny you asked:

    Floating 5-star hotel: Russia’s 1st cruise liner to be ready for tests in 2019

    https://www.rt.com/business/443654-russia-first-cruise-liner/
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    Post  Aristide Mon Nov 12, 2018 7:31 pm

    PapaDragon wrote:
    Funny you asked:

    Floating 5-star hotel: Russia’s 1st cruise liner to be ready for tests in 2019

    https://www.rt.com/business/443654-russia-first-cruise-liner/

    Thats not an ocean liner but merely a small river boat.

    It only goes on rivers and lakes.
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    Post  Tsavo Lion Fri Nov 30, 2018 8:49 pm

    These were built in the USSR: Throughout the 1930s she and her sister ships – Adzharia, Abkhazia, and Ukraina – reliably ferried passengers, mail, and cargo between Black Sea ports such as Odessa, Mariupol, Sevastopol, Yalta, and Batum. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_hospital_ship_Armenia

    Later, they had other priorities & bought/leased liners abroad which were used to earn hard currency carrying foreign tourists. The Soviet citizens weren't rich enough & most weren't allowed to have it & travel abroad; those who did go on cruises on those ships paid in rubles for 7 day cruise on the Crimean-Caucasus Line operated in June-October & rarely only select few went on round Europe cruise between Odessa & Leningrad with stops in foreign ports.
    They still don't have the know-how & expertise to build ocean liners to successfully compete, & weren't even able to do major repairs locally on those bought/leased liners .
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    Post  GarryB Sun Dec 02, 2018 10:50 am

    Better question would be why do French people want to sail away from France... perhaps to find somewhere with better fuel prices?

    Or perhaps a place where yellow jackets are accepted rather than brutally beaten by police who seem to commit suicide more often than most police around the world...

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