Taymyr (nuclear icebreaker)
- Taymyr (nuclear icebreaker)
"Taymyr" (sometimes spelled "Taimyr") is a shallow-draft nuclear powered icebreaker, and the first of four similar vessels. She was built in 1989 for the Soviet Union in Helsinki, at the Finnish shipyard Wartsila, by order of the Murmansk Shipping Co. The Taymyr was delivered to Russia for the installation of the reactor system. It has a nuclear-turbo-electric reactor giving up to 50,000 hp. This shallow-draft icebreaker is used mainly for clearing rivers, including their mouths and estuaries of ice and opening channels in order to make winter navigation possible.
This icebreaker and its sister ship Vaygach belong to a type known as Taymyr-class River Icebreakers.
The Call sign of Taymyr is UEMM.
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External links
* [http://www.carc.org/pubs/v16no4/8.htm Soviet Arctic Marine Transportation] (1988).
* [http://www.akerarctic.fi/picturesetvideos.htm Photo of "Taymyr" at sea.]
* [http://www.sailwx.info/shiptrack/shipposition.phtml?call=UEMM sailwx.info track] of reported positions of Taymyr.
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