Card Model Kit towing steamer Vanya & gunboat Vanya #5
Type: the towing steamer/gunboat
Series: fleet/navy
Country: the Russia, 1905/1918
Scale: 1:200
Volume: 16 sheets A3 (11,7” x 16,5”)
Weight: 0,4 kg
Card Model Kit Russian towing steamer Vanya & gunboat Vanya #5 .
Instruction: in English, German, Polish, and Russian (detailed illustrations are included)
For building you may need: scissors, glue for paper, sharp knife (or scalpel), awl, ruler, toothpicks or matches, cardboard (about 1 mm thick)
Even if you are the beginner in modeling, don’t be afraid to start with this model kit.
Instructions and illustrations, high quality printing and excellent coloring, perfectly selected details scale will make the process of building pleasant and amazing; at the end you will have a wonderful stunning model made by your own hands.
Prototype
In 1905 the firm “Borel” ordered in Saratov City at the plant of the engineer Bari the construction of a tow boat for the Volga steamship line. The ship was constructed on the foremost project of that time. The steamship was set in motion by two paddle wheels with outer lines and steering blades mounted on one axle. The steamship received the name “VANYA”. The tow boat was sailing on the Volga and the Kama, drove barges with timber, flour, salt fish and other goods from Rybinsk to Astrakhan and back. That continued until the autumn of 1914. In 1918 the tow boat was given the serial number 5 and called an armed steamship. For the battles of Kazan the armed steamship received its new name “Vanya-Communist”, but it did not have time to receive it officially. 1 October 1918, during the reconnaissance raid near village Pyanyy Bor the gunboat “Vanya-Communist” was fired by the hidden artillery battery of the enemy and conflagrated. The survivors - 48 men of the crew of 76 men – were picked up by torpedo boat “Prytkiy” that came to the rescue. After the Russian Civil War ended, the steamship was hoisted, repaired, reconstructed into a passenger steamship and given to Chardzhou City, where it worked for a long time more on the River Amu Darya under the name of “Komsomolets” until 1968, when the river stopped being navigable.
