It was built in 1989 in Gdańsk Shipyard, Poland, in a series of six sister ships (among which also the Mir), after the designs of Polish naval architect Zygmunt Choreń.

From 1991 to 2006 Khersones was a training ship for the Admiral Ushakov Maritime State University in Kerch, Crimea.

At the same time, it was rented to the tourism company Inmaris Maritime Service GmbH as a cruise ship.

[5] In 2015 the ship traveled to the Sevastopol Shipyard for repairs, and later made its home port in the city due to the construction of the Crimean Bridge near Kerch.

Khersones took part in "SCF Black Sea Tall Ships Regatta – 2016".