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Largest in this registry
#26,250
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest research / survey
#10
of 483 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Largest in its fleet
#7
of 9 in this fleet with a recorded tonnage
In brief
Sibir (Russian: Сибирь; literally: Siberia), built in 1977, is a retired Russian nuclear-powered icebreaker of the Arktika class. She was the only icebreaker of her class that does not feature a red superstructure.
The ship was equipped with two OK-900A nuclear reactors, each producing 171 MW of thermal power. The reactors were in operation from 1977 to 1992. The reactors powered two steam turbines to which six generators were connected. The radiation intensity was always monitored using sensors distributed throughout the ship.
Sibir was withdrawn from service in 1992 and was reported in 2012 as being moored at Murmansk awaiting scrapping.
She had a gross tonnage of 20,655 and a dead weight of 4,096 tonnes.
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 20,665 gross tons, Sibir is the 26,250th 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 3.4 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 612 research / surveys held here, it ranks 10th 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 Sibir is the 49th 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 8 are larger by tonnage.
Sibir was built in 1977, making it 49 years old. It is one of 1,791 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 5,622 GT; within it this ship is the 202nd largest. Across the whole of the 1970s the registry holds 17,331 vessels, median 2,774 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 148.9 m overall, Sibir is 77.9 m longer than the 71.0 m median for research / surveys on record, with a beam of 29.9 m and a draft of 11.0 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 7604491 this registry holds 26 other vessels, whose median build year is 1977 and which range from 1973 to 1983. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1977.
Its IMO number, 7604491, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 7×7 + 6×6 + 0×5 + 4×4 + 4×3 + 9×2 = 131 — and the last digit of that total, 1, must equal the seventh digit, 1. It does, so this number is well formed.
Nearest by tonnage among research / surveys
| Ship | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|
| Vaygach | 1990 | 20,791 |
| Taymyr | 1989 | 20,791 |
| Rossiya | 1985 | 20,680 |
| Sibir (this ship) | 1977 | 20,665 |
| Sovetskiy Soyuz | 1989 | 20,646 |
| Yamal | 1992 | 20,646 |
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Class
| Ship | IMO | Flag | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arktika | 7429061 | Russia | 1974 | — |
| Rossiya | 8424240 | Russia | 1985 | 20,680 |
| 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 Sibir (1977 icebreaker) on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
PhotographBy Kiselev d, reused under CC BY-SA 3.0.
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