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Research / survey
Operated by Murmansk Shipping Company
Photo: Mike Dunn, NC State Museum of Natural Sciences · Public domain · file
Largest in this registry
#32,537
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest research / survey
#30
of 483 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Largest in its fleet
#1
of 4 in this fleet with a recorded tonnage
In brief
Kapitan Dranitsyn (Russian: «Капитан Драницын») is a Russian icebreaker, built in Finland for the former Soviet Union. Since October 1995 she has been used as a research vessel by AARI. She also offers excursions in the Arctic Ocean north of Russia. It's named after German Vasilyevich Dranitsyn (1912–1976), a notable Soviet polar explorer, captain, and significant figure in the Arctic fleet, celebrated for his contributions to Arctic navigation.
Vessel particulars
Every value is as recorded in the source. Blanks are values the source does not hold — none is estimated from a sister ship or a class average.
Identification
Construction
Measurements
In context
Every figure in this section is a count, a rank or a percentile over vessels actually held in this registry — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.
At 12,919 gross tons, Kapitan Dranitsyn is the 32,537th largest of the 84,014 vessels in this registry that report a tonnage. The median across that set is 5,994 GT, so this hull is about 2.2 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 612 research / surveys held here, it ranks 30th by tonnage — larger than 94% of that group. Their median tonnage is 2,180 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 9,452 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is United States (90 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Wärtsilä, with 36 hulls on record.
Russia is the country of registry for 2,810 vessels in this directory, of which Kapitan Dranitsyn is the 106th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (830 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,293 GT. Browse every ship flagged Russia.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 69 research / surveys flying the Russia flag, of which 18 are larger by tonnage.
Kapitan Dranitsyn was built in 1980, making it 46 years old. It is one of 1,736 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 2,301 GT; within it this ship is the 289th largest. Across the whole of the 1980s the registry holds 13,213 vessels, median 3,004 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 118 vessels to Wärtsilä, with a median tonnage of 14,058 GT, delivered between 1938 and 1998. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 133.0 m overall, Kapitan Dranitsyn is 62.0 m longer than the 71.0 m median for research / surveys on record, with a beam of 26.5 m and a draft of 8.5 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 7824405 this registry holds 40 other vessels, whose median build year is 1979 and which range from 1970 to 1981. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1980.
Its IMO number, 7824405, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 7×7 + 8×6 + 2×5 + 4×4 + 4×3 + 0×2 = 135 — and the last digit of that total, 5, must equal the seventh digit, 5. It does, so this number is well formed.
Nearest by tonnage among research / surveys
| Ship | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|
| USCGC Polar Star | 1976 | 13,190 |
| MV Abegweit | 1982 | 13,105 |
| Hai Yang Shi You 720 | 2011 | 13,061 |
| Kapitan Dranitsyn (this ship) | 1980 | 12,919 |
| S. A. Agulhas II | 2012 | 12,897 |
| Akademik Fedorov | 1987 | 12,660 |
Class
| Ship | IMO | Flag | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kapitan Khlebnikov | 7824417 | Russia | 1970 | 12,288 |
| Kapitan Sorokin | 7413488 | Russia | 1970 | — |
| Kapitan Nikolaev | 7413490 | Russia | 1978 | 14,264 |
Same fleet
Provenance
Vessel recordWikidata, released under CC0, keyed on this ship’s IMO number.
Written summaryQuoted from Kapitan Dranitsyn on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
PhotographBy Mike Dunn, NC State Museum of Natural Sciences, reused under Public domain.
| RV Polarstern |
| 1982 |
| 12,614 |