Icebreaker Taymyr

Icebreaker Taymyr

Icebreaker "Taymyr" was an icebreaking steamer of 1200 tons built for the Russian Imperial Navy at St. Petersburg in 1909. It was named after the Taymyr Peninsula.

Icebreaker "Taymyr" and its sister ship Vaygach were built for the purpose of thoroughly exploring the uncharted areas of the Northern Sea Route. This venture became known as the Arctic Ocean Hydrographic Expedition.

The first of a series of surveys began in the autumn of 1910, when the "Taymyr" and the "Vaygach" left Vladivostok. They entered the Chukchi Sea with scientists on board and began their exploration. For the next five years, these icebreakers went on sounding and carrying on vital surveys during the thaw. Before every winter, when ice conditions became too bad, they returned to Vladivostok and waited for the spring.In 1911 the scientists and crew aboard the "Vaygach" and the "Taymyr" made the first Russian landing on Wrangel Island.

In 1914, Boris Vilkitsky was both the captain of the "Taymyr" and the leader of the Arctic Ocean Hydrographic Expedition. The purpose of icebreakers "Taymyr" and "Vaygach" was to force the whole Northern Passage in order to reach Archangelsk. Severe weather and ice conditions, however, didn't allow them to cross the Kara Sea and they were forced to winter at Bukhta Dika, close to the Firnley Islands. Thus the sister icebreakers were able to complete the passage only in 1915. They were warmly welcomed in Archangelsk upon their arrival.

Some of the biggest successes of the expedition were the accurate charting of the Northern Sea Route and the discovery of Severnaya Zemlya in 1913. Icebreakers "Taymyr" and "Vaygach" were considered the best icebreakers in the world in their time.

The first scientific drifting ice station in the world, North Pole-1 was established on May 21, 1937 some 20 km from the North Pole by the expedition into the high latitudes Sever-1, led by Otto Schmidt. "NP-1" operated for 9 months, during which the ice floe passed 2,850 kilometers. On February 19, 1938, Soviet icebreaker "Taimyr", along with the "Murman" took off four polar explorers from the station, who immediately became famous in the USSR and were awarded titles Hero of the Soviet Union.

A nuclear icebreaker of the Soviet Navy, as well as a class of nuclear-powered river icebreakers, was named "Taymyr" in 1988.

References

* William Barr, "Otto Sverdrup to the Rescue of the Russian Imperial Navy".
* William Barr, "The last Journey of Peter Tessem and Paul Knutsen".
* J. Niven, "The Ice Master, The Doomed 1913 Voyage of the Karluk".


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