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Largest in this registry
#26,176
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest research / survey
#7
of 483 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Largest in its fleet
#4
of 9 in this fleet with a recorded tonnage
In brief
Taymyr (Russian: Таймыр, IPA: [tɐjˈmɨr]) is a shallow-draft nuclear-powered icebreaker, and the first of two similar vessels. She was built in 1989 for the Soviet Union in Finland, at the Helsinki Shipyard by Wärtsilä Marine, by order of the Murmansk Shipping Company. Her sister ship is Vaygach.
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 20,791 gross tons, Taymyr is the 26,176th 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 7th by tonnage — larger than 99% 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 Taymyr is the 44th 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 5 are larger by tonnage.
Taymyr was built in 1989, making it 37 years old. It is one of 1,131 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 1,938 GT; within it this ship is the 182nd 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, Taymyr is 79.0 m longer than the 71.0 m median for research / surveys on record, with a beam of 29.2 m and a draft of 9.0 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8417481 this registry holds 49 other vessels, whose median build year is 1985 and which range from 1984 to 1990. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1989.
Its IMO number, 8417481, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 + 4×6 + 1×5 + 7×4 + 4×3 + 8×2 = 141 — 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sibir | 2022 | 28,476 |
| 50 Let Pobedy | 2007 | 23,439 |
| IMO 9665487 | 2015 | 21,195 |
| Taymyr (this ship) | 1989 | 20,791 |
| Rossiya | 1985 | 20,680 |
| Sibir | 1977 | 20,665 |
| Sovetskiy Soyuz |
Record
Events recorded against this vessel in the source, with the dates the source gives. An event with no date is listed last rather than assigned one.
Class
| Ship | IMO | Flag | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vaygach | 8417493 | Russia | 1990 | 20,791 |
Same fleet
Provenance
Vessel recordWikidata, released under CC0, keyed on this ship’s IMO number.
Written summaryQuoted from Taymyr (1987 icebreaker) on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
PhotographBy Post of Russia, reused under Public domain.
| 1989 |
| 20,646 |