ROSSIYA icebreaker

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Built as a nuclear powered icebreaker under yard No 702 by Baltiyskiy Zavod, Leningrad for the Government of the Soviet Union (Ministry of Transport).
20 February 1981 keel laid down.
Launched as the ROSSIYA on of the Arktika class icebreakers.
Tonnage 20.680 grt, 2.752 dwt., dim. 150.0 x 30.0m.
Powered by two OK reactors, 52MW (69.733 hp) propulsion power, speed 20.6 knots.
Crew 138 to 200.
20 December 1985 completed. Homeport Murmansk.


The class is used in North Siberian waters and to keep year round navigation to some ports in North Russia possible. She can break trough ice with a thickness of 2 meter.
Lately also used for scientific and vacation expeditions to the Arctic.
The class was first managed by the Murmansk Shipping Company (MSCO), Murmansk.

2008 Still in service, IMO No 8424240, managed by Atomflot, Federal State Unitary Enterprise, Murmansk.

Russia 2008 7R sg?, scott?

Source: http://www.miramarshipindex.org.nz and other web-sites.

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In 1990, for the first time in the history of Arctic travel, he made a cruise voyage for foreign tourists to the North Pole

In 2007, she ensured the exploration of the Russian continental shelf at the North Pole using the Mir deep-sea vehicles from the Akademik Fedorov vessel.

2008 Still in service, IO No 8424240, managed by Atomflot, Federal State Unitary Enterprise, Murmansk.

On September 17, 2011, the nuclear-powered ship leaves Murmansk for the North Pole with members of the Arctic-2011 expedition on board.

In March-April 2012 and February-April 2013, the icebreaker operated in the Gulf of Finland and provided the escort of tankers to the port of Primorsk

According to Bellona, ROSSIYA was taken out of service in 2013 and is currently in "cold lay-up" awaiting disposal.

Russia 2008 7R sg?, Scott?
Niger 2019 800Fr sg?, Scott? Although this edition was authorized by the Niger postal administration, it was not sold in Niger, but only distributed to the novelty trade by the Nigerian philatelic agency.

Source: http://www.miramarshipindex.org.nz and other websites.