We kindly appreciate your interest in our wonderful four-masted barque "Kruzenshtern" and we are happy to invite you to her virtual board on the eve it her the 90th anniversary!
We are glad that you have joined a great number of guests who regularly visit the ship at various ports of different seas. Fortunately, busy navigation schedule allows thousands of guests to visit “Kruzenshtern” every year. We respect all of our guests but today we kindly offer you the opportunity to have a virtual tour around the vessel. We hope that the website you can find out for yourself, a lot of interesting things, and you will do it comfortably. We hope that you will enjoy visiting our web-site.
If you have already met the "Kruzenshtern", we’re sure you are in love with it. And if you are to get familiarized with the ship, our site will be helpful. And it doesn’t matter what you are - a cadet or a guest, and how much time you will spend on board, really or virtually, it will be amazing!
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The four-masted barque built in Bremerhaven (Geestemünde) and launched in 1926 with the name "Padua", and for 70 years known throughout the world as the "Kruzenshtern" is a unique sailing ship. We wouldn’t like to call her "legendary" because there are practically no legends and myths about the vessel and all possible questions are answered sooner or later. There are irrefutable facts, documents and reality, and the steel giant is more than a tangible object, life history of which is quite evident in the 20th century. So there are no mysteries, except just one.
The magic of this extraordinary vessel, and it is indeed extraordinary, is her people. They were the people who the barque the second birth and a future prosperous life.
You can keep track the recent position of the "Kruzenshtern" on the interactive map.
The four-masted barque (ex "Padua", built in 1926 in German) after being accepted by the Soviet Union as reparation, has had the name after Ivan Kruzenshtern since 1946 - the outstanding Russian seafarer, explorer and admiral (1770-1846).
More than ten geographical locations on the world map are named after this man. A reef, a strait and an island, and even a crater (since 1935) on the visible side of the Moon are among them. There is also a monument to Kruzenshtern opposite the Naval Cadet Corps on Lieutenant Schmidt embankment in St. Petersburg, as well as a harbor tug, the Airbus A-320 of Aeroflot and an international autoliner of the St. Petersburg transport company. This name was given to streets and avenues in dozens of cities and even to a secondary school in Rostock, Germany. Still, the first association people get is connected with the famous sailing ship "Kruzenshtern".
