Ulyanovsk river port. New flights are included in the schedule of motor ships of the Ulyanovsk river port

This statement by the head of the region, Sergei Morozov, has recently spread around the local media and caused great surprise among the owners of the water transport business. Most of all, he announced this news not at the negotiating table, but through journalists.

Experts are perplexed how it is possible to “return” to state property what already belongs to it. If we are talking about infrastructure - a berth and water area, then they are already in it. Maybe there is a desire to change the operator conducting commercial activities in the field of freight and passenger transportation through the deprivation of infrastructure? But one desire - even with all the desire - is not enough. First, it would not hurt to think about the economic and social consequences, the main of which is the loss of work for hundreds of people. If they take away the berth and water area, how will the cargo port work? And it’s not a fact that under the auspices of the regional authorities something different from what is, they will create, given the “successful” experience of organizing, and then the loud bankruptcy of all kinds of OGUPs.

Orders - from the side

The Ulyanovsk river port was privatized, as were thousands of enterprises across the country. Infrastructure facilities - berths, water area, buildings, facilities, and so on - have been leased out for commercial activities, and it should be noted, with the inalienable right of privatization, which the owners of the river port can carry out at any time after the adoption of the regulations and mechanism at the legislative level. And regardless of what kind of property it is - federal or regional.

We were given a "bait" to catch "fish" - to develop business, create jobs, pay taxes and replenish the budgets of all levels. The Ulyanovsk river port works stably, despite the absence of any subsidies. We do not even have the opportunity to fully participate in intraregional cooperation. The Ulyanovsk region does not buy sand from us. We offer well-cleaned, twice washed sand for road construction, and this is quality and reliability in operation. Or maybe the Ulyanovsk roads are among the worst in the country because they use low-quality materials?.. We are looking for customers on the side, we get materials for other regions. So, in 2014-2015, 1500 thousand tons of excellent river sand were delivered to the Republic of Chuvashia, in 2014 to Tatarstan - 950 thousand tons, in 2016 to Samara - 1210.8 thousand tons. Order from the Ulyanovsk region in 2014-2015 - zero, in 2016 - 36 thousand tons, - says Yuri Kolpakov, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Ulyanovsk River Port.

In 2010, a "green parking lot" was built in Krasny Yar with an extended pier for mooring ships. Photo: From the personal archive / Mikhail Mishin

Can't build

Where do you think the comma should be placed?

In the light "return of the riverport to state property" talks about attracting investors whose investments should pay off. In the meantime, the conditions are created only for sponsors. Because in Ulyanovsk there are no roads to the port, there are no investments in the renewal of infrastructure and communications, there is no training for the river industry. There is only one answer: do it yourself, - explains Yuri Kolpakov, Chairman of the Board of Directors. - We do it: we train personnel at our own expense in other cities, we maintain the infrastructure in a suitable condition, we subsidize at the expense of profits from the cargo port Passenger Transportation, while in other regions it is done on parity terms with the regional budget. The last time, in response to a letter regarding the lack of access roads, we were offered to repair the road along Nagornaya Street on our own. Everything would be fine, but this is the only freight passage that should not be in private hands in the absence of an alternative, and for which we will receive another charge, - says Yuri Borisovich. - But there will be additional questions to the authorities! In 2010 for cargo captains and passenger ships approved the regional award. Every year, 300 thousand rubles were allocated for their encouragement and financial support for the titles “The best workers of the river industry of the Ulyanovsk region”, but not for long. This regional award has not been presented since 2015.

Only swim

IN river port they joke that soon it will be possible to get to them only by swimming. For more than 10 years, the port has been in permanent isolation. From 1998 to 2005, the overpass was closed for repairs, and at that time cruise ships “turned away” from Ulyanovsk and stopped entering, because it was impossible to get into the city, they were removed from the route public transport, the pedestrian staircase has not been repaired for decades. In fairness, it must be said that the renovation was made only in 2016.

And today, due to the lack of access roads in the normative state, shippers began to work with the port reluctantly: the Imperial Bridge for the passage of freight transport, the "cargo eight" on the descent of Stepan Razin are closed. Only Nagornaya Street remains - " Bermuda Triangle"on land, a dead road where KamAZ trucks get stuck.

But that's not all. Now the territory of the Ulyanovsk river port has been included to the heap in the landslide zone, which is not and never was. And this means that no reconstruction - by the way, regarding the repair of the river station and the construction of new facilities - can be carried out, and the enterprise should be shut down, because mooring and loading operations in such areas are unacceptable. While 40-ton trucks were forbidden to enter the port, 3,600-ton trains are allowed to enter the port ...

Ships came into our harbor

The fact that passenger ships do not want to come to us because of our river port is not true, - says the chairman of the board of directors of the Ulyanovsk port. - We provide comprehensive fleet services: we accept for mooring, give water, fuel and lubricants, pick up waste. Riverport is not a tourist attraction or a tour operator - people who buy a ticket for a river cruise are interested in seeing the city. And why Ulyanovsk does not arouse interest, only experts can professionally answer this question. By the way, we have firms organizing river cruises, and not at all. True, the fact that motor ships enter the harbor through the breakwater for an hour and a half is a feature of the water area. We came up with a proposal to the regional authorities to move the passenger port, as in other cities, to a more convenient place - between the Imperial and Presidential bridges, - says Yuri Borisovich. - There is a direct approach for motor ships, cable car, stairs, exit directly to the embankment of the Crown. It will be an interesting climb, saving time, and there is every chance of getting into cruise routes. The Ulyanovsk River Port is ready for a public-private partnership to implement this project: build a railway station, a pier, and service them.

The river port is worried that the lack of access roads for freight transport will lead to a decrease in the performance of the cargo port, from the profits of which passenger transportation is financed. Today in our port there are pleasure trips on two motor ships. In 2010, at the expense of our own investments, a “green parking lot” was built in Krasny Yar on the banks of the Volga, where, by the way, an elongated pier allows all types of ships to moor. But there are no intraregional and intercity transportation, like before.

Without subsidies as without water

Let's look at the situation sensibly, - says Yuri Kolpakov. - A ship is not a rubber boat that can anchor anywhere. Special mooring conditions must be created for it: mooring, deepening, service at the pier. In the region, all the berths are abandoned and washed out, the piers are located in places where and from where it is simply inconvenient for people to get to. This is one reason. The second is that passenger transportation must have a customer, probably these are the authorities, whose task is to resolve issues transport communication with taxpayer money. It is possible to organize intra-regional river routes, provided that there are subsidies from the budget, otherwise it will be a financial burden on passengers. River transport- not cheap. Are you ready to pay 1.5 thousand rubles and walk 4-6 hours to a settlement in the Ulyanovsk region, when you can get there by bus in 1-1.5 hours, for example, for 200-300 rubles? How do you think the traffic will be?..

Constantly being on the pitchfork in power, modest rivermen, who talk so little about themselves in the media, do not lose their good spirits. Yes, and once - ahead of navigation. As soon as the ice melts, freight traffic will open, and on May 1, pleasure boats will go along the Volga ...

The language of numbers

The efficiency of the business of the Ulyanovsk River Port is confirmed by the figures. Since the 2000s, freight and passenger traffic has doubled from 800 thousand before 1591 thousand tons and 15 thousand before 30 thousand passengers in navigation. The material and technical base of the port has increased several times: the cargo and passenger fleet has been increased due to the reconstruction and acquisition of ships, the number of transshipment equipment, floating mechanization facilities. In 2000, the enterprise had 5 tugs at its disposal, in 2016 - 10 , the number of barges increased from 7 before 15 units, their tonnage - with 17.5 thousand before 41 thousand tons, due to the reconstruction of the second passenger ship, passenger capacity is now 260 man instead 155 .

10 portal cranes, five front-end loaders (there was one) and two weight loaders (there was one) are involved in loading and unloading operations. For the extraction of non-metallic building materials, the fleet of floating machinery has been tripled - three dredgers, three hydraulic loaders, and two floating cranes are used. Two sand unloading sites were built, including one outside the Ulyanovsk region, but there was none. Two more licenses for the development of sand pits have been obtained. The number of activities has been increased from three to five. While in Russia as a whole, three cargo ports are closed annually or are on the verge of collapse. An example of this is Nizhny Novgorod, Balakovo, in Kineshma. Passenger ports thrive on subsidies. Tatarstan is 60 million rubles, Cheboksary - 9 million rubles, Samara - 20 million rubles per year. Ulyanovsk - 0 . So before comparing ports, it would be logical to compare the attitude of local authorities towards them.

Ulyanovsk (formerly Simbirsk) is a city located in the European part of the Russian Federation, having the status of an urban district and located on the Volga Upland, on the banks of the Kuibyshev reservoir, the Volga and Sviyaga rivers, closer to the confluence of the channels. The date of foundation of the settlement is considered to be 1648, today about 620 thousand people live in it.

Geographical and climatic features

The territory of the city is located on a hilly plain. Height above sea level - from 80 to 160 meters. In the right-hand side of the settlement, there are more ups and downs. The climate here is temperate continental, but a little drier than in the center of the country. The average annual atmospheric temperature is +5 degrees. The Ulyanovsk river port is located within the city. The average duration of navigation on the Volga is 195-200 days. The port is a link between other modes of transport: road and rail.

History of appearance

Even in pre-revolutionary Russia, the city was of great strategic importance, being the center of the grain trade. All loading and unloading operations in the port at that time were carried out manually due to the strong degree of steepness of the coast.

After the completion of construction, which led to the deepening and expansion of the Volga channel, a construction site was launched on the territory of the port to build a modern receiving and departure river point. From 1952 to 1961, a dam and a dam 12 meters high were erected.

Already in the 60s of the last century, the flourishing of the river port of Ulyanovsk began, and they began to call it. The heyday of the enterprise fell on the 80s, the volume of loading and unloading operations was constantly increasing (the calculation went to millions of tons). Like most enterprises, in the 90s, the port began to decline. Vessels were written off, passengers were transported from time to time, but the enterprise continued to work.

In the early 2000s, the Ulyanovsk river port began to slowly revive. Boat trips have even resumed. In 2009, the motor ship OM-401 was repaired, put into operation and plows the water under a new name - "Hero Yuri Em". There are also walks on the motor ship "Moskovsky-20".

Tourist and walking routes

The port offers residents and guests of the city pleasure trips along the Kuibyshev reservoir. In 1.5 hours you can see two legendary bridges of the city - "Imperial (road and railway, built in 1916) and" Presidential "(erected in 2009)

For those who want to relax at the "green parking lot" and the recreation center "Green Yar", a regular tourist flight is carried out, the travel time is 45 minutes.

Motor ships correspond to modern concepts of comfort, in the cabin there is an air conditioning and heat ventilation system.

On both ships there is an opportunity to hold festive events and receptions, including weddings. "Geroy Yuri Em" accommodates 108 people on board, and "Moskovsky-20" - 150 people.

OJSC "Rechport Ulyanovsk" offers charter of vessels for individual transportation both within the Kuibyshev reservoir and for longer distances. Tourist routes The Simbirskaya Gavan company, which operates on the territory of the port, is in charge.

Shipping company

The river port of Ulyanovsk is cargo and passenger berths. The territory has crane runways and 11 gantry cranes (one of them with a lifting capacity of 100 tons). The company owns warehouse space of 4500 sq. m., of these areas 3 closed warehouses.

The port, like most of the country's enterprises, was privatized in the 2000s. It cannot be said that the economic recovery at the enterprise immediately began, but nevertheless there are some improvements.

Compared with the 2000s, today the volume of freight and passenger traffic has increased, from 8 thousand to 15,910 thousand tons. And passengers are transported already 2 times more, in the "zero" it was only 15 thousand, and now 30 thousand for the navigation season.

In 2000, the enterprise had 5 towing units, in 2016 - already 10. The number of barges also doubled, previously there were only 7 working platforms, now 15.

Do not forget that most ports receive subsidies from the local budget, for example, 60 million rubles have been allocated in Tatarstan, and 20 million in Samara. Ulyanovsk river port has not received a penny from the local or federal budget.

Contemporary Issues

Not so long ago, the port authorities were dumbfounded by the statement of the governor of the Ulyanovsk region, Sergei Morozov. The official said that it is necessary to return the Ulyanovsk river port to the municipal property. Everyone in Ulyanovsk is outraged, including local residents, because it is a big risk that hundreds of employees will lose their jobs.

The port management is rightly outraged, because the local authorities do not help at all. The port independently maintains the infrastructure, trains personnel in other cities. According to the administration, in response to the last request to resolve the issue of access roads, the local authorities offered to repair them at their own expense. The lack of access roads makes it impossible to cooperate with shippers, as a result, the port can only be reached by a “killed” road along Nagornaya Street. And these are not the only problems that, I would like to believe, the port will cope with.

River station: Ulyanovsk - Samara. Photo report.
Simbirsk Harbor. Fantasies and promises 4 years old

I will not occupy your time with figures on passenger transportation, on organizing regional delivery of passengers along suburban routes, passenger transportation to the cities of the Volga region and neighboring regions, cruises for vacationers and tourists from the Ulyanovsk River Station. They simply don't exist. An hour's walk along the Volga from the old bridge to the new one or to Krasny Yar, in the case of recruiting the required number of passengers on the ship, is not considered either tourism or passenger transportation.

To verify this, just look at the official website of the Ulyanovsk River Port and see the section " Tourism". Not passenger transportation and tourism, not the organization of new routes, but banquets, receptions, an incendiary presenter and a fashionable DJ have become a priority for the Ulyanovsk River Port.

What did you plan four years ago? Let's take a look at some media quotes:

July 3, 2009 "Ulyanovsk truth"
Ulyanovsk river port should become the main logistics center of the Volga Federal District

In the near future, we will closely study the experience of other regions in the development of the river industry. As part of the strategic development of the region, there is an intention to turn the river port into the main transport and logistics center with state financial participation, which will connect cargo flows to Mordovia, Samara, the Republic of Tatarstan by waterways, - Governor Sergey Morozov said at a field meeting in the Ulyanovsk river port.

At the meeting, the project "Simbirsk Harbor" of the Ulyanovsk River Port was presented, which is aimed at the development of water passenger transport, organization of cultural and entertainment infrastructure on the territory of the port. The volume of investments exceeds 105 million rubles.

I would like to draw your attention to the opening hours of ticket offices. One cashier is open 24/7

There is no turnstile here, no electronic pass, no security guards. Here is a free access to the pier through this door:

And I go out to the pier, show you everything that I see myself:

P.S.
River station of Kazan (without 2-meter fences) and with free access to the pier:

River Station Cheboksary:

The pier in Simbirsk (since 1924 Ulyanovsk) has existed for a long time. Before the 1917 revolution, the city was an important center for the grain trade. Although in those years there was an obstacle in the form of an uncomfortable unpaved, with a high degree of steepness, the rise from the bank of the Volga up to the city. Until 1924, all loading and unloading operations in the Simbirsk (Ulyanovsk) port were carried out manually.

After the war, in connection with the construction of the Volga hydroelectric power station and the subsequent deepening and expansion of the Volga riverbed, the construction of a modern river port began in Ulyanovsk. During the period from 1952 to 1961, a huge artificial dam 12 meters high was built, a dam was erected. A new cargo port was built on the left bank - Zavolzhsky district.

In 1965, a new river station came into operation (on the right bank of the Volga, in the Zheleznodorozhny district. It was built of reinforced concrete, steel and glass and provided all the amenities for passengers.

In the 60s, the Ulyanovsk river port became a port of five seas.

In the 80s, the heyday of the port, the volume of loading and unloading operations in it amounted to millions of tons. Among the passenger ships were hydrofoils, on which it was possible to quickly get to the neighboring Volga cities (Kazan, Kuibyshev and others) and settlements areas.

In the early 1990s, the port began to fall into disrepair. All hydrofoils were decommissioned, and regular passenger traffic ceased. But the cargo port continued to work.

In the late 2000s, such a direction as boat trips revived somewhat. To do this, in 2009, the motor ship OM-401 was re-commissioned, renamed the "Hero Yuri Em". The Simbirsk Harbor project was launched.

Composition of the high-speed fleet and years of operation:

• "Meteor-18" (1963 - 19xx)
• "Meteor-29" (1964 - 1984)
• "Meteor-54" (1966 - 1986)
• "Meteor-79" (1969 - 1991, decommissioned since 1992, cut in the mid-90s)
• "Meteor-151" (1979 - 1994, from 1995 to 1998 cold sludge on the territory of OJSC "Ulyanovsk River Port", cut in 1998)
• "Meteor-180" (1983 - 1992, from 1993 to 1999 cold sediment on the territory of OJSC "Ulyanovsk River Port", cut in 1999)
• "Meteor-211" (1985 - 1998, since 1999 cold sludge on the territory of OJSC "Ulyanovsk River Port")
• "Meteor-216" (1986 - 1999, since 2000 cold sediment on the territory of OJSC "Ulyanovsk River Port")
• "Meteor-226" (1988 - 1992, since 1993 cold sludge on the territory of OJSC "Ulyanovsk River Port")
• "Comet-10" (1978 - 1991, from 1992 to 1996 was leased to the Baltic, in 1997 it was sold to Greece)

The composition of the displacement fleet and years of operation:

• "MO-12" (19 - 19)
• "MO-117" (19 - 19)
• "OM-158" (19 - 19)
• "OM-161" (19 - 19)
• "OM-317" (19 - 19)
• "OM-319" (19 - 19)
• "OM-401" (19 - 19) (since 1996 it was under reconstruction, in 2009 it was put into operation, renamed "Hero Yury EM")
• Moscow-20 (1988 - present)
• SCHEDULE:
• 1994 berth №7
• high-speed lines
• Bely Yar - Kazan - Bely Yar
• 1995 berth №5
• high-speed lines
• 1996 berth №5
• high-speed lines
• Ulyanovsk - Kazan - Ulyanovsk
• Ulyanovsk - Naberezhnye Chelny
• 1997 berth №5
• high-speed lines
• Ulyanovsk - Kazan - Ulyanovsk
• 1998 berth №5
• high-speed lines
• Ulyanovsk - Kazan - Ulyanovsk
• Ulyanovsk - Samara - Ulyanovsk
• 1999 berth №2
• high-speed lines
• Ulyanovsk - Tolyatti - Ulyanovsk
• 2006
• Pleasure flights berth No. 2
• 2007
• Pleasure flights berth No. 2
• 2008
• Pleasure flights berth No. 2
• year 2009
• Pleasure flights berth No. 7
• 2010
• Pleasure flights berth No. 2

The timetable of motor ships of the Ulyanovsk river port includes an hour and a half day trip at 13.00 "Imperial bridge - Presidential bridge" and an hour evening trip at 19.00 along the Kuibyshev reservoir.

These flights will operate until the end of August. Flight "Richport - Imperial Bridge - Presidential Bridge" - a walk along the Volga lasting 1.5 hours. During it, you can see the legendary railway "Imperial Bridge", built in tsarist times, as well as the modern engineering structure "Presidential Bridge" - one of the largest in Europe and one of the largest river bridges in the world. The evening flight along the Kuibyshev reservoir leaves at 19.00, it provides an opportunity for those who work, wish to complete or continue the vacation or weekend program with a rest on the Volga. Recall that the ships of the Ulyanovsk river port "Moskovsky-20" and "Hero Yuriy Em" run daily. Every day at 11.00, 13.00, 15.00, 17.00 and 19.00 you can ride on the Kuibyshev reservoir. From Thursday to Friday there are evening flights to Krasny Yar: in the morning at 9.00 and in the evening at 17.00. Ticket price: for a walk along the Kuibyshev reservoir - 250-350 rubles. for adults, 150-170 rubles. for children under 10 years old, children under 5 years old - free of charge; on the route "Ulyanovsk - Krasny Yar - Ulyanovsk" - 350 rubles. for adults, 170 rubles. for children under 10 years old, children under 5 years old - free of charge;