Vaygach (nuclear icebreaker)
- Vaygach (nuclear icebreaker)
The "Vaygach" (sometimes spelled "Vaigach") is a shallow-draft nuclear powered icebreaker. She was built in 1989 for the Soviet Union in Helsinki, at the Finnish shipyard Wartsila, by order of the Murmansk Shipping Co.
The Vaygach 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 Taymyr belong to a type known as Taymyr-class River Icebreakers.
References
* http://www.akerarctic.fi/referencelist.htm
External links
* [http://www.carc.org/pubs/v16no4/8.htm Soviet Arctic Marine Transportation] (1988).
* [http://www.akerarctic.fi/picturesetvideos.htm] .
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