Vladivostok icebreaker

MS Vladivostok ("ледокол Владивосток") is an icebreaking vessel owned and operated by Rosmorport. Rosmorport is a Russian FSUE ("Federal State Unitary Enterprise") created in 2012 by the Russian Federation's Ministry of Transport.

The vessel (IMO number 9658654) is Russia-flagged (MMSI 273376280) and registered in Sankt-Petersburg.

Among the newest Russian icebreaker ships, Vladivostok is named after Vladivostok City, the administrative center of Russia's Primorsky Krai (region), located at the head of Golden Horn Bay near Russia's borders with North Korea and China. The vessel can operate successfully in temperatures down to -40°C. Vladivostok belongs to a series of three newbuilds ordered from Vyborg Shipyard by the Russian Ministry of Transport. The Russian Maritime Register of Shipping participated in the official ceremony of hoisting the national flag on the new diesel-electric icebreaker Vladivostok.

The naming ceremony was held on September 23, 2015, at Naberezhnaya Leitenanta Shmidta. The ship's christening took place during "NEVA 2015" (the 13th International Maritime Exhibition held in St Petersburg) and was attended by Alexander Soloviev (Vyborg Shipyard's General Director), Viktor Olerskiy (Deputy Minister of Transport), Sergei Gorelik (Rosmorrechflot), Dmitrii Yalov (Leningrad Region's Vice-Governor), and other officials.

Rosmorport's Vladivostok itinerary program offers Baltic Sea and Arctic cruise expeditions. Currently, the ship is homeported in Sankt-Petersburg.

Vladivostok icebreaker vessel details

Project 21900 and 21900M icebreakers (aka LK-16) represent a series of five Russian icebreakers. Two Project 21900 ships (Sankt Peterburg and Moskva) were built in St Petersburg by Baltic Shipyard, and three Project 21900M ships were constructed as follows: two at Vyborg Shipyard (Vyborg, Leningrad Oblast) and one at Arctech Helsinki Shipyard.

The main purpose of this class of icebreakers is to assist heavy-tonnage ships and tow floating structures both in open sea and in ice.

The 21900M-class double-deck icebreakers are equipped with a helideck and feature an improved design and higher performance characteristics compared to 21900-class icebreakers. Project 21900M has been classified by RMRS (Russian Maritime Register of Shipping) as ice-class "Icebreaker6." The maximum icebreaking capability of 21900 and 21900M-class ships is 1.5 m. The icebreakers are intended for the Baltic Sea and the Northern Sea Route along Russia's Arctic coast.

Besides Vladivostok, the other two Project 21900M-class sisterships are Murmansk (2015) and Novorossiysk (2016).

The list of services intended for these newest Russian icebreaker ships includes towage, escorting heavy-tonnage vessels, salvage and assistance to vessels in distress, firefighting on floating facilities, and transportation of effective cargoes.

The vessel has one dining room, Sauna, one swimming pool (indoor, heated), one elevator, and one helipad (Helideck).

• Max Draft: 8.5 m (28 ft)
• DWT Deadweight tonnage: 5,370 tons
• Displacement tonnage: 10,000 tons
• Icebreaking capacity: 1.5 m
• Cargo capacity: 33 TEUs (containers)
• Cargo deck size: 800 m2 (8,600 ft2)
• Range: 20,000 km (13,000 mi)
• Powerplant: four Wartsila diesel engines (6.75 MW each, total power output 27 MW)
• Propulsion: diesel-electric; 2x Steerprop azimuth thrusters (8.7 MW each, total power output 17.4 MW)

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