
Largest in this registry
#10,055
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest research / survey
#1
of 483 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Largest in its fleet
#2
of 3 in this fleet with a recorded tonnage
In brief
About Timofey Guzhenko
MT Timofey Guzhenko (Russian: Тимофей Гуженко) is a Russian double acting shuttle tanker operated by Sovcomflot. An icebreaking oil tanker capable of operating independently in 1.5-metre (5 ft) level ice, she carries oil from Varandey Oil Terminal, an ice-strengthened loading tower located 12 nautical miles (22 km) from the shore.
The ship is named after Timofey Guzhenko (1918–2008), the USSR Minister of Merchant Marine in 1970–1986 and one of the founders of the Sovcomflot Group. He was also the leader of the first expedition to reach the North Pole on board a surface ship, the nuclear-powered icebreaker Arktika, on 17 August 1977.
Vessel particulars
Identification and dimensions
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
- IMO number
- 9372561
- IMO check digit
- Valid
- MMSI
- 273330620
- Call sign
- UBQF5
- Flag state
- Russia
- Port of registry
- —
- Vessel class
- —
- Status
- in service
Construction
- Type
- Research / survey
- Builder
- Samsung Heavy Industries
- Yard number
- 1662
- Launched
- —
- Year built
- 2009
- Designed to carry
- —
- Owner
- Lorama Shipping Co. Ltd.
- Operator on record
- Sovcomflot
Measurements
- Gross tonnage
- 49,597
- Net tonnage
- —
- Displacement
- —
- Length overall
- 257.3 m
- Beam
- 34.1 m
- Draft
- 14.2 m
- Service speed
- 15.0 kn
- Deadweight
- 72,722 t
In context
How Timofey Guzhenko compares
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 49,597 gross tons, Timofey Guzhenko is the 10,055th 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 8.3 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 612 research / surveys held here, it ranks 1st by tonnage — larger than 100% 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 Timofey Guzhenko is the 18th 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 none is larger than Timofey Guzhenko.
Timofey Guzhenko was built in 2009, making it 17 years old. It is one of 2,834 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 11,673 GT; within it this ship is the 469th largest. Across the whole of the 2000s the registry holds 18,605 vessels, median 9,957 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 826 vessels to Samsung Heavy Industries, with a median tonnage of 75,201 GT, delivered between 1980 and 2025. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 257.3 m overall, Timofey Guzhenko is 186.3 m longer than the 71.0 m median for research / surveys on record, with a beam of 34.1 m and a draft of 14.2 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9372561 this registry holds 69 other vessels, whose median build year is 2008 and which range from 2005 to 2019. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2009.
Its IMO number, 9372561, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 3×6 + 7×5 + 2×4 + 5×3 + 6×2 = 151 — and the last digit of that total, 1, must equal the seventh digit, 1. It does, so this number is well formed.
Same yard, same years
Built alongside at Samsung Heavy Industries
No ship class is recorded for this vessel, so these are not asserted to be sister ships — they are contemporaries from the same builder, shown because that is what the data supports.
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2008 · 163,922 GT · Marshall Islands
Al Mayeda
2009 · 163,922 GT · Marshall Islands
Al Mafyar
2009 · 163,922 GT · Marshall Islands
Mekaines
2009 · 163,922 GT · Marshall Islands
Mozah
2008 · 163,922 GT · Marshall Islands
Shagra
2009 · 163,922 GT · Marshall Islands
Bu Samra
2008 · 163,922 GT · Marshall Islands
Al Dafna
2009 · 163,922 GT · Marshall Islands
Same fleet
Other ships operated by Sovcomflot
Provenance
Where this page comes from
Vessel recordWikidata, released under CC0, keyed on this ship’s IMO number.
Written summaryQuoted from MT Timofey Guzhenko on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
PhotographBy Michael Volkov, reused under CC BY-SA 3.0.

