Built as a nuclear icebreaker by the Baltic Shipbuilding and Engineer Works at Leningrad for the Russian Government.
Launched under the name SIBIR. One of the ARKTIKA class.
Tonnage 18.171 gross, 3.018 net, 4.096 dwt., dim. 147.99 x 30.00m., length bpp. 136.0m.
Powered by two nuclear reactors 4 Kirov steam turbines. 75.000 shp., driving three generators connected to three shafts. Speed 21 knots.
Can break ice up to 2 meter.
28 December 1977 in service.
05 May 1978 sailed from Murmansk together with the cargo vessel KAPITAN MYSHEVSKIY for a high latitude voyage. The cargo vessel was loaded with oil-field equipment with destination the Kolyma region. Both ships sailed through the Bering Strait to Magadan. The two ships covered around the 3200 miles of which around 2000 miles were in ice
27 May 1987 she reaches the North Pole.
1992 Transferred to Murmansk Shipping Co., Murmansk.
Since 1993 laid up due to severe hull deterioration is reported, and most probably she will not return to service.
http://www.equasis.org Gives for 2005 that she is still in service, IMO NO 7604491 but she is not more in the Russian Maritime Register of Shipping.
2008 Waiting for scrapping.
13 November 2016 broken up by Nerpa Ship Yard, Murmansk
Russia 1988 20k sg5927, scott?
Russia 1982 postcard
Source: World Navies. Soviet Merchant Ships by Ambrose Greenway. Navicula, Register of Merchant Ships completed in 1977. Miramar