Taymyr (nuclear icebreaker)

For the non nuclear-powered Taymyr icebreaker, see Icebreaker Taymyr.

Career
Name:	Taymyr (Таймыр)
Owner:	Rosatom
Operator:	Atomflot
Port of registry:	Murmansk
Builder:	Wärtsilä, Finland
Launched:	30 June 1989
General characteristics
Displacement:	20,000 tonnes
Length:	151.8 m
Beam:	29.2 m
Height:	15.2 m
Draught:	8.1 m
Propulsion:	3 shaft nuclear, 2 reactors, 2 x 18400 KW
Speed:	18.5 knots

Taymyr (sometimes spelled Taimyr) is a shallow-draft nuclear powered icebreaker, and the first of four similar vessels. She was built in 1989 for the Soviet Union in Helsinki, at the Finnish shipyard Wärtsilä, by order of the Murmansk Shipping Co.

The Taymyr was delivered to Russia for the installation of the reactor system. It has a nuclear-turbo-electric reactor giving up to 50,000 hp. This shallow-draft icebreaker is used mainly for clearing rivers, including their mouths and estuaries of ice and opening channels in order to make winter navigation possible.

This icebreaker and its sister ship Vaygach belong to a type known as Taymyr-class River Icebreakers.

The Call sign of Taymyr is UEMM.

References

• "Development of new generation nuclear icebreaker to start next year". bellona.org. November 16, 2004. http://www.bellona.org/english_import_area/international/russia/icebreakers/36062. Retrieved 2007-10-29. 

External links

• Soviet Arctic Marine Transportation(1988).
• Photo of Taymyr at sea.
• sailwx.info track of reported positions of Taymyr.