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Largest in this registry
#26,247
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest research / survey
#9
of 483 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Largest in its fleet
#6
of 9 in this fleet with a recorded tonnage
In brief
Rossiya (Russian: Россия; literally: Russia) is a Russian Arktika-class nuclear-powered icebreaker. In 1990, it became the first ship to carry commercial passenger traffic to the geographic North Pole. Its sister ship Arktika was the first surface ship to reach the pole.
During the winter of 2012–2013, Rossiya was stationed in the Gulf of Finland.
According to Bellona, Rossiya was taken out of service in 2013 and is currently in "cold lay-up" awaiting disposal.
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 20,680 gross tons, Rossiya is the 26,247th 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 3.5 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 612 research / surveys held here, it ranks 9th by tonnage — larger than 98% 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 Rossiya is the 48th 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 7 are larger by tonnage.
Rossiya was built in 1985, making it 41 years old. It is one of 1,312 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 4,782 GT; within it this ship is the 309th 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 43 vessels to Baltic Shipyard, with a median tonnage of 20,646 GT, delivered between 1960 and 2022. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 150.0 m overall, Rossiya is 79.0 m longer than the 71.0 m median for research / surveys on record, with a beam of 30.0 m and a draft of 11.0 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8424240 this registry holds 28 other vessels, whose median build year is 1950 and which range from 1911 to 1985. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1985.
Its IMO number, 8424240, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 + 4×6 + 2×5 + 4×4 + 2×3 + 4×2 = 120 — and the last digit of that total, 0, must equal the seventh digit, 0. It does, so this number is well formed.
Nearest by tonnage among research / surveys
| Ship | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|
| IMO 9665487 | 2015 | 21,195 |
| Taymyr | 1989 | 20,791 |
| Vaygach | 1990 | 20,791 |
| Rossiya (this ship) | 1985 | 20,680 |
| Sibir | 1977 | 20,665 |
| Sovetskiy Soyuz | 1989 | 20,646 |
| Yamal |
Class
| Ship | IMO | Flag | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arktika | 7429061 | Russia | 1974 | — |
| Sibir | 7604491 | Russia | 1977 | 20,665 |
| Sovetskiy Soyuz | 8838582 | Russia | 1989 | 20,646 |
| Yamal | 9077549 | Russia | 1992 | 20,646 |
| 50 Let Pobedy | 9152959 | Russia | 2007 | 23,439 |
Same fleet
Provenance
Vessel recordWikidata, released under CC0, keyed on this ship’s IMO number.
Written summaryQuoted from Rossiya (1983 icebreaker) on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
PhotographBy Insider, reused under CC BY-SA 3.0.
| 1992 |
| 20,646 |