The Alexander Suvorov is a Valerian Kuybyshev-type Soviet-Russian river cruise ship cruising in the Volga–Don basin. On 5 June 1983 Suvorov crashed into a girder of the Ulyanovsk railway bridge. The catastrophe led to 177 deaths yet the ship stayed afloat was restored and still navigates. Her home port is currently Nizhny Novgorod. The ship was built at Slovenské Lodenice in Komárno Czechoslovakia in 1981 and was named after the Russian generalissimo Alexander Suvorov.