The Smolensk (Russian: Смоленск; named for the city of the same name) was a ship built in England in 1901, ostensibly as a merchant vessel for the Russian state-controlled Dobroflot shipping line, but designed to double as a cruiser of the Imperial Russian Navy, in which role she adopted the name Rion (Russian: Рион; the river Rioni in the Caucasus). The ship saw active service in the Russo-Japanese War.