ASSEDO ex SHOTA RUSTAVELI

The ASSEDO with her funnel painted blue leaving Lisbon. As SHOTA RUSTAVELI she was the first passenger liner of the Soviet Union to call in Lisbon in1975.
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A look at the ASSEDO

Two photographs of the Ukranian cruise ship ASSEDO on her first call to Lisbon under this name on 2nd July 2003.
Built in East Germany as the fourth ship in the IVAN FRANKO-class she sailed as SHOTA RUSTEVELI for many years until the colapse of the Soviet Union and the dispersion of their fleet of passenger and cruise ships.
Of the five IVAN FRANKO sisters, only the MARCO POLO ex-ALEKSANDR PUSHKIN remains in service.
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ASSEDO ex SHOTA RUSTAVELI

A good surprise very early in the morning, to find the ASSEDO at our stern about to enter Piraeus. It was 3rd October 2001 and those were my final photographs of the SHOTA RUSTAVELI / ASSEDO before she made her final trip to India and Alang.
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