Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan was built as the third of five ships in the Belorussija Class in 1975. It was then converted into a cruise ship just ten years later. Kazakhstan started to change names in 1994: It was first renamed “Ukraina” and was then called “Royal Seas”, “Ukraine”, “Adventure” and “Island Adventure”.

A total of five ships in the Belorussija Class were completed at the finnish shipyard, today MEYER TURKU, and delivered to the former Black Sea Shipping Company from 1975 to 1976. The prototype was Belorussija, and the other vessels were also named after constituent states of the USSR: Azerbaydzhan, Kazakhstan, Gruziya and Kareliya. All the structurally identical ships were originally built as ferries. They could transport almost 900 passengers and around 250 vehicles. The Russian sister ships were then converted into cruise liners following the dissolution of the USSR.

After spending a few years as a casino cruise ship off the coast of Florida, the ship formerly known as “Kazakhstan” was sold to a dismantling company in India, where it was scrapped in 2012.