In 1907 at the boiler and shipbuilding plant of Ivan Alexandrovich Shorin the largest fuel-oil barge ‘Marfa Posadnitsa’ was built (the length 172 m, the width – 24 m, the side height – 3.85 m, the loading capacity 9,150 t). The river fleet historians still qualify its appearance as a beachhead in the river shipbuilding. The construction of the barge was ordered by the chairman of the Nizhny Novgorod stock exchange committee, Dmitry Vasilyevich Sirotkin. The design of this ship, which ‘crumpled’ the water under itself, was developed and patented by Vladimir Grigorievich Shukhov, a famous Russian engineer. However, the drawings of Shukhov were improved by the Gorokhovites in the technical department of the Shorin plant in order to increase the size of the ship. As a result, the displacement of water of the barge was increased almost five times.