Sakhalin-7

Broken up Jingjiang 6.8.13 [Jingjiang Taihe Ship Breaking Yard] (source: Miramarshipindex.org.nz)

So now its only three units left, the SACHALIN-8, 9 and 10. A new large train ferry and Ro/Ro project is under planning for the Sachalin Island, a most impressing ship Project, soon to be decided and ordered. The Sachalin class is handicapped by the small capacity for passengers, only 72 per ship and some 25 passenger cabin beds for the 10 hour long journey. Unique for a ferry class - these Sachalin class had one propeller aft and a typical icebreaker propeller forward - typical icebreaker style, for the harsh ice conditions in the strait between Vanino(in Primorje region on the mainland) and to Cholmsk, on Sachalin Island.

Next year, 2015, the Sachalin Shipping Company(SASCO) or Sachalinskoe Morskoje Parochodstvo (SaChMP), celebrates its 70th anniversary when it was established locally, after the unification of the Island of Sachalin, since the Japanese occupation of southern Sachalin until 1945 when the Red Army(RKKA) and Red Navy(RKKF) liberated Sachalin, all the Kuriles and the Chinese Manchuria from Japanese occupation in the joint USSR-US attack in August 1945 - the USSR attack on Japan was the last war effort and war declaration in the Second World War. In 1946 the Sachalin Company received the German war damages payment in form of the Baltic Sea train ferries DEUTSCHLAND and PREUSSEN, renamed ANIVA and KRILJON, some years later, abt. 1949, handed over to DVMP/FESCO in Vladivostok, and rebuilt to pure passenger ships. However, I dont know if the ANIVA and KRILJON ever served as trainferries to Sachalin, transporting trains. Even no Russian sources mention this.