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Sovcomflot was the first Russian shipping company founded in accordance with international standards and global practice
130 years of tanker shipping
130 years of tanker shipping on the Black Sea
In 1885 the Russian tanker Svet (1,700 tonnes dwt) became the first oil tanker to enter the Black Sea
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Vessel naming

  • Maslov, Georgy
    Maslov, Georgy

    A former chairman of Sovfracht and one of the authors of the idea to establish Sovcomflot.

  • Nevelskoy, Gennady
    Nevelskoy, Gennady

    A famous Russian explorer of the Far East who lead the Amur Expedition and proved that Sakhalin is an island.

  • Ovtsyn, Dmitry
    Ovtsyn, Dmitry

    A marine surveyor and one of the first Russian Arctic explorers, who described the Gulf of Ob in detail during his voyages.

  • Primakov, Yevgeny
    Primakov, Yevgeny
    A Soviet and Russian statesman who served as Prime Minister (1998–1999), and Minister of Foreign Affairs (1996–1998).
  • Senkevich, Yuri
    Senkevich, Yuri

    A famous doctor, explorer, traveller and a TV presenter.

  • Tikhonov, Vladimir
    Tikhonov, Vladimir

    A prominent seafarer who have served as a Deputy of the Minister of Merchant Marine of the USSR for more than 20 years and was among the founders of Sovcomflot.

  • Tikhonov, Vyacheslav
    Tikhonov, Vyacheslav

    An actor most famous for portraying colonel Isaev (Stierlitz), a Soviet spy in the TV series Seventeen Moments of Spring (1972).

  • Timmerman, Frans
    Timmerman, Frans
    A 17th-century Dutch merchant who served as a shipbuilding mentor to the Russian emperor Peter the Great and played an important role in creating the Russian seaborne fleet.
  • Titov, Viktor
    Titov, Viktor

    One of the original employees of the Primorsk Shipping Company and one of those who helped create it.

  • Ulyanov, Mikhail
    Ulyanov, Mikhail

    An actor and the artistic director of the Vakhtangov State Academy Theatre, a Lenin Prize Winner, the Secretary of the Board of the USSR Cinema Union, the Chairman of the Theatre Worker’s Union of Russia, Member of the Russian Parliament

  • Ushakov, Fedor
    Ushakov, Fedor

    A legendary Russian admiral who played a key role in the creation and development of the Russian fleet on the Black Sea. He is also remembered as a commander who never suffered a defeat in his entire military career. 

  • Zuev, Nikolay
    Zuev, Nikolay

    A head of Sovfracht, the freight department within the Soviet Ministry of Shipping, a representative of a new formation of Russian shipping leaders who helped lay the foundations of Sovcomflot.

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