Eastern Europe
Russia
Kaliningrad Oblast

RV Vityaz

Vityaz is a research vessel that was built in 1939 by Deutsche Schiff- und Maschinenbau AG, , Germany as Mars for Neptun Line, . She served with the Kriegsmarine during World War II and was seized by the United Kingdom in 1945.
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  • Opening hours: Wednesday—Sunday 10:00 AM—6:00 PM
  • Type: Museum
  • Description: motor ship built in 1939
  • Also known as: “IMO 5382609”, “Research vessel ‘Vityaz’”, “The Museum Vessel VITYAZ”, “The Museum Vessel VITYAZ Kaliningrad”, “Vessel VITYAZ museum”, and “Vityaz”
  • Wheelchair access: no

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Museum of the World Ocean and Putti Fountain.

Museum
Photo: Grebenkov, CC BY 3.0.

Fountain
Photo: A.Savin, FAL.
is situated 150 metres northwest of RV Vityaz.

Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a medium-sized fishing trawler. It was built in the 1950s for the USSR in the German Democratic Republic. Since 2007, it has been one of the exhibits at the Museum of the World Ocean in . It is the only museum fishing vessel in Russia. is situated 280 metres east of RV Vityaz.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kaliningrad and Fishing Village Kaliningrad.

Photo: Jjtkk, Public domain.
, also known by its original German name, Königsberg, is the capital city of in . It has about 475,000 inhabitants.

Suburb
Photo: A.Savin, FAL.
is a suburb.

Suburb
was a broad region along northwestern Königsberg, , which developed into the quarters of Ratshof, , Mittelhufen, and Vorderhufen. The territory is now part of the Tsentralny District of , .

RV Vityaz

Latitude
54.70616° or 54° 42′ 22″ north
Longitude
20.49994° or 20° 29′ 60″ east
Inception
1939
Open location code
9G62PF4X+FX
Open­Street­Map ID
way 173639308
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­ship
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­ship
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­museum
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­no
Wiki­data ID
Q1516653
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In Other Languages

From French to Spanish—“RV Vityaz” goes by many names.
  • French: “Vityaz”
  • Galician: “‘Vitiaz’”
  • Galician: “Vitiaz”
  • German: “Mars”
  • German: “Witjas”
  • Japanese: “ヴィチャージ”
  • Polish: “Witiaź”
  • Russian: “Cудно Витязь”
  • Russian: “Витязь (судно, 1949—1979)”
  • Russian: “Витязь”
  • Russian: “Научно-исследовательское судно ‘Витязь’”
  • Russian: “Научно-исследовательское судно Витязь”
  • Slovenian: “Vitjaz”
  • Spanish: “Vitiaz (1939)”
  • Spanish: “Vitiaz”
  • “Vityaz”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “RV Vityaz”. Photo: A.Savin, FAL.