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Russian Steam Navigation and Trading Company

Transport company in the Russian Empire founded in 18561

The Russian Steam Navigation and Trading Company (Russian: Русское общество пароходства и торговли or ROPiT Russian: РОПиТ, also referred as Russian S.N.Co.) of Odessa was one of the biggest joint stock steamship companies in Imperial Russia.2 It is headquartered in Odesa.1 It ceased to exist in 1917.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

1856Founded1
  • HeadquartersSaint Petersburg1
  • Legal formopen joint-stock company1

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Photo: Germenfer, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons4

The Russian Steam Navigation and Trading Company (Russian: Русское общество пароходства и торговли or ROPiT Russian: РОПиТ, also referred as Russian S.N.Co.) of Odessa was one of the biggest joint stock steamship companies in Imperial Russia.2

Products and brands

In 1901 it had a fleet of 72 steamships. Company stock was listed on Saint-Petersburg Stock Exchange.

Svet (Свет) (1815)

Imperator Aleksander II (Император Александр II) (1858)

Veliky Knyaz Konstantin (Великий Князь Константин) (1858)

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Oleg (Олег) (1859)

Lazar (Лазар) (1863)

Rostov (Ростов) (1867)

Imperatritsa Maria (Императрица Мария) (1877)

Askold (Аскольд) (1879, since 1886 till 1916)

Chuanpu (Хуанпу) (1882)

Tsar (Царь) (1883)

Mechta (Мечта) (1884)

Luch (Луч) (1886)

Odessa (Одесса) (1889)

Veliky Knyaz Aleksei (Великий Князь Алексей) (1890)

Blesk (Блеск) (1890)

Veliky Knyaz Konstantin (Великий Князь Константин) (II) (1890)

Veliky Knyaz Konstantin (Великий Князь Константин) (III) (1890)

Svyatoi Nikolai (Святой Николай) (1893)

Korolyeva Olga (Королева Ольга) (1893)

Imperator Nikolai II (Император Николай II)

Chtyr Dag (Чатыр Даг) (1896)

Diana (Диана) (1899)

Chikhachyov (Чихачёв)

Alton (Алтон) (1901)

Meteor (Метеор) (1901)

Khersones (Херсонес) (1903)

Evfrat (Евфрат) (1906) called Euphrate in France (based in Marseille after the beginning of the October Revolution).

Printsessa Yevgenia Oldenburgskaya (Принцесса Евгения Ольденбургская) (1903)

Imperator Nikolai I (Император Николай I) (1913)

Imperatritsa Yekaterina II (Императрица Екатерина II)

Imperator Aleksander III (Император Александр III)

Imperator Pyotr Veliky (Император Пётр Великий)

Tsar Mikhail Fyodorovich (Царь Михаил Фёдорович) (1914)

Tsarevich Aleksey Nikolayevich (Цесаревич Алексей Николаевич) (1914)

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Timeline

  1. 1917Dissolved Dissolved1
  2. 1856Founded Founded1

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