Black Sea Shipping Co.
(Black Sea Steamship Co.)

USSR
(at the time of the publication of the brochures shown below; later Ukraine)

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Baltic Steamship Line/Black Sea Steamship Line
Sailings January-December 1965
Vessel(s) Ports of call
Baltic Steamship Line:
Nadeshda Krupskaja Leningrad, Helsinki, Stockholm, Copenhagen, London, Le Havre
Estonia Typical voyage:
Leningrad, Helsinki, Stockholm, Copenhagen, London, Le Havre
Baltika Typical voyage:
Leningrad, Helsinki, Gothenburg, London
Ivan Franko Leningrad, Helsinki, Gothenburg, London
The N. Krupskaja and Baltika were the primary vessels on the routes above, with the Estonia and Ivan Franko in a supporting role.
Mikhail Kalinin Leningrad, Helsinki, Stockholm
Black Sea Steamship Line:
Armenia Odessa, Varna (except January-March), Piraeus, Alexandria (except June-September), Famagusta, Latakia, Beirut.
Return voyages: Beirut, Famagusta (June-September only), Alexandria (except June-September), Piraeus, Istanbul, Varna (except January-March), Odessa.
Latvia Odessa, Constanta, Istanbul, Piraeus, Alexandria, Beirut
Adjaria 1) Odessa, Varna, Piraeus, Bari, Split, Venice.
Return voyages: Venice, Dubrovnik, Bari, Piraeus, Istanbul, Odessa.

2) Odessa, Yalta, Sochi, Batumi.
Return voyages: Batumi, Sukhumi, Sochi, Yalta, Odessa.

Litva 1) Odessa, Constanta, Varna, Istanbul, Piraeus, Naples, Marseilles.
Return voyages: Marseilles, Genoa, Naples, Piraeus, Istanbul, Varna, Constanta, Odessa.

2a) Odessa, Yalta, Sochi
or
2b) Odessa, Yalta, Sochi, Sukhumi, Batumi

Black Sea/Caspian/Danube/Far Eastern Steamship Companies
Sailings January-December 1969 for:
Armenia, Latvia, Felix Dzerzhinsky, Bashkiria, Adjaria, Litva (Black Sea);
Guriev (Caspian);
Amur, Dunaj, Osetia (Danube);
Baikal, Khabarovsk, Ordzhonikidze (Far Eastern)

Ports of call:
Odessa, Constanta, Varna, Istanbul, Piraeus, Alexandria, Famagusta, Latakia, Beirut;
Odessa, Varna, Piraeus, Brindisi, Split, Venice, Dubrovnik, Yalta, Sochi, Sukhumi, Batumi;
Odessa, Varna, Istanbul, Piraeus, Naples, Genoa, Marseilles, Yalta, Sochi, Sukhumi, Batumi;
Nakhodka, Yokohama, Hong Kong;
others
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Sailings January-December 1983
Vessel(s) Ports of call
Dmitriy Shostakovich June-Aug only:
Odessa, Varna, Piraeus, Naples, El-Dzhazair (Algiers).
Return voyages: El-Dzhazair, Tripoli, Piraeus, Istanbul, Varna, Odessa
Belorussiya June-Sep only:
Odessa, Piraeus, Naples, Genoa, Marseilles.
Return voyages: Marseilles, Barcelona, Malta, Istanbul, Yalta, Odessa
Azerbaydzhan June-Sep only:
Odessa, Varna, Kusadasi, Heraklion, Corfu, Venice.
Return voyages: Venice, Dubrovnik, Piraeus, Istanbul, Yalta, Odessa
Lev Tolstoy May-Sep only:
Odessa, Varna, Istanbul, Piraeus, Larnaca, Lattakia, Alexandria
Ukraina Jan-Apr + Sep-Dec:
1) Odessa, Piraeus, Lattakia, Alexandria.
Return voyages: Alexandria, Lattakia, Larnaca, Piraeus, Odessa
or
2) Odessa, Piraeus, Larnaca, Lattakia, Alexandria.
Return voyages: Alexandria, Lattakia, Piraeus, Odessa

Jan-March + late Oct-Dec also shuttle service (3 roundtrips) Alexandria-Lattakia-Larnaca-Alexandria

Armenia Odessa, Piraeus, Lattakia, Alexandria.
Return voyage: Alexandria, Lattakia, Larnaca, Piraeus, Odessa.

(One roundtrip voyage only, in Apr/May)

Morflot was the State shipping company, organizing the shipping services of the Soviet Merchant Marine. Black Sea Shipping Co. as well as Baltic Shipping Co. and Far Eastern Shipping Co. were all subsidiaries of Morflot.

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Sailings April-October 1989
Vessel(s) Ports of call
Adjaria
Bashkiria
Typical voyages:
1) Odessa, Istanbul, Piraeus, Lattakia, Alexandria.
Return voyages: Alexandria, Lattakia, Larnaca, Piraeus, Istanbul, Varna, Odessa.
2) Odessa, Varna, Istanbul, Piraeus, Larnaca, Lattakia, Alexandria.
Return voyages: Alexandria, Lattakia, Piraeus, Istanbul, Odessa.
Dmitriy Shostakovich Typical voyages:
Odessa, Istanbul, Siracusa, Barcelona, Marseilles.
Return voyages: Marseilles, Genoa, Naples, Piraeus, Yalta, Odessa.
Lev Tolstoy Odessa, Istanbul, Piraeus, Naples, Algeria (Algiers; other ports?).
Return voyages: Algeria, Radès/La Goulette (Tunis), Valetta, Tripoli, Istanbul, Odessa.

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