Peter Tschaikowsky

Peter Tchaikovsky

Peter Tchaikovsky was the German cruise-market name of a river ship that now sails as “Ogni Bolshogo Goroda.” Today, it belongs to the Sozvezdie fleet; “Peter Tschaikowsky” was the spelling commonly used in German marketing.

Construction and naming history

The four-deck Project 301 river ship was built in 1977 in Boizenburg, in what was then East Germany. It was initially named “XXV съезд КПСС” (“25th Congress of the CPSU”); in the early 1990s, it was renamed “Леся Українка” (Lesya Ukrainka). After further service on Russian river routes, it was operated by Doninturflot under the name “Пётр Чайковский” (Pyotr Tchaikovsky) from 2007. Until 2019, it mainly sailed between Moscow and Saint Petersburg under this name. A major reconstruction followed in 2011.

During its operational pause from 2020 to 2022, the ship was acquired by Sozvezdie in the summer of 2022. Since 2023, it has sailed as “Огни большого города” (Ogni Bolshogo Goroda, “Lights of the Big City”). Thus, “Peter Tschaikowsky” refers to an earlier naming and marketing period for the same ship, not its current name. The spelling “Peter Tchaikovsky” also appears in an English-language ship listing.