Project B-540 cargo vessels

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On the prepaid postcard is seen a ship of this type alongside in Anadyr in Russia, the shipsname is quit long but I can not make anything out of it, the same vessel is also on the prepaid envelope.
She is one of the Type 540B of which 21 ships were built between 1973 and 1977 by Stocznia Gdanska at Gdansk, Poland for the Russian Government.
The Russian shipping company FESCO in Vladivostok opened a new shipping line in 2007 between Vladivostok and Anadyr and other ports in the Russian far east and far north. The first vessel in this service arrived in June 2007 in Anadyr, she was the KAPITAN LYUBCHENKO..

It are timber carriers and bulkers but the B-540 type can also carry 308 TEU’s.
Tonnage 10,133 grt, 5,780 net, 13,980/14,204 dwt. Dim. 151.7 x 21.1 x 11.6m, draught 8.7m.
Powered by one 6-cyl. Sulzer-Cegielski 6RND 68 diesel engine, 7,286 kW (9,900 bhp), one shaft, speed 15.7knots.
Icebreaker bow and ice strengthened.
Five holds, hold capacity 16,360m³.

Of the 21 ships, 13 are scrapped, one was wrecked and 7 are still in service.
The lead vessel of this class was the VLAS NICHKOV in service in 1973 and scrapped at Aliaga in 2012.

The last of this class was the KAPITAN LYUBCHENKO built under yard B540/21.
12 October 1977 launched as the KAPITAN LYUBCHENKO.
Completed in August 1977.
2013 Still in service, same name, owned by FESCO, IMO No 7704033.

Russia: 2004 prepaid envelope. (The sailing vessel is the RAZBOINIK.)
Source: Gennadiy Sitnikov