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SHIPS OF THE SOVIET UNION

Following the break-up of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Odessabased Black Sea Shipping Company, together with all passenger ships located in Ukrainian territory, then belonged to Ukraine, as did the ships operated by Azov Shipping Company from Mariupol, the Soviet Danube Shipping Company of Izmail and Azcherryba of Sevastopol, Crimea.

The Black Sea Shipping Company, which was established in 1833

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