The Soviet Union container carrier NIKOLAY TIKHONOV the Baltic Shipping Company
Cellular container m/v NIKOLAY TIKHONOV type m/v KAPITAN GAVRILOV
Built in GDR, Warnemünde: 1983
Call sign: E O I E
Deadweight: 16,030 t
Output: 21,600 b.h.p.
Speed: 20 kn
Flag: USSR
Home port: Leningrad, Baltic Shipping Company (BSC established in 1835)
Sisterships:
KAPITAN GAVRILOV (Built in 1982, call sign U M A V, deadweight 15,950 t, BSC)
KAPITAN KANEVSKIY (Built in 1982, call sign U M F N, deadweight 16,030 t, BSC)
KAPITAN KOZLOVSKIY (Built in 1982, call sign E K Y L, deadweight 16,030 t, BSC)
TIKHON KISELEV (Built in 1984, call sign U E I K, deadweight 16,030 t, BSC)
Ships of this type are operated in the BALT-ORIENT LINE service ( from Europe to South-East Asia), as well as charter out in the open market.
Hamburg-Bremerhaven-Gothenburg-Rotterdam-Antwerpen-Tilbury-Havre-Jidda-Singapore-Bangkok-Manila-Hong Kong-Taiwan-Singapore-Keelung-Penang-Jidda-Hamburg.
Service BALTATLANTICA

Dear Marc, thank you very much for this extreamly nice shot. she bears now the name MSC LIESELOTTE.
her sisters are:
8201648 MSC EYRA 1982 21,586 21,370
8201686 MSC HINA 1984 21,586 21,370
8201624 MSC IRIS 1982 21,586 21,370
8201636 MSC MALIN 1982 21,586 21,370
8201703 MSC MARIA 1985 21,586 21,370
best regards from Switzerland, Markus

You believe right, she is the MSC Lieselotte nowadays.

Nice to see such a great photo of her in her Soviet times before lenghtening. :-)