The ''Khersones'' or ''Chersones'' is a Ukrainian three-mast tall ship, a

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. It was built in 1989 in

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, in a series of six sister ships (among which also the

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), after the designs of

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Zygmunt Choreń Zygmunt Choreń (born 1941) is a Polish naval architect and the proprietor of the naval architectural firm Choreń Design and Consulting. He is a graduate of the Gdańsk University of Technology and the Leningrad Ship-Building Institute. He was ...

. The ship is named after the city of

Chersonesus Chersonesus ( grc, Χερσόνησος, Khersónēsos; la, Chersonesus; modern Russian and Ukrainian: Херсоне́с, ''Khersones''; also rendered as ''Chersonese'', ''Chersonesos'', contracted in medieval Greek to Cherson Χερσών; ...

an ancient city and archaeological site near

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. She partakes in many

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. In 1997, it became the first Ukrainian ship to sail around

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by only using her sails. From 1991 to 2006 ''Khersones'' was a training ship for the Admiral Ushakov Maritime State University in

Kerch Kerch ( uk, Керч; russian: Керчь, ; Old East Slavic: Кърчевъ; Ancient Greek: , ''Pantikápaion''; Medieval Greek: ''Bosporos''; crh, , ; tr, Kerç) is a city of regional significance on the Kerch Peninsula in the east of t ...

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. At the same time, it was rented to the tourism company ''Inmaris Maritime Service GmbH'' as a cruise ship. This agreement was terminated in 2006 as ''Inmaris'' accused the Ukrainian side of refusing to pay for repairs that ''Inmaris'' had ordered, and to avoid an arrest on the vessel, it was then moved permanently to the docks in the Port of Kerch. After the

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in 2014, the ship was seized by Russian authorities. A dispute over control of the ship began between the Federal Agency for Fishery of Russia and the

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, with the Ministry gaining the upper hand with its subsidiary ''FGUP Rosmorport''. In 2015 the ship traveled to the

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for repairs, and later made its home port in the city due to the construction of the

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near Kerch. Khersones took part in "SCF Black Sea Tall Ships Regatta – 2016".Парусник «Херсонес» примет участие в первой после капитального ремонта регате
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ship's data (in German) with photos, Inmaris Maritime Service

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