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| History | |
|---|---|
  Russia | |
| Name | Akademik Fedorov |
| Owner | AARI[1] |
| Port of registry | Saint Petersburg, Russia |
| Builder | Rauma-Repola, Rauma, Finland[2] |
| Launched | 8 September 1987[3] |
| Maiden voyage | 24 October 1987[3] |
| Identification | IMO number: 8519837 |
| Status | In service |
| General characteristics | |
| Tonnage | 12,660 GT[1] |
| Displacement | 16,200 t[1] |
| Length | 141.2 metres |
| Beam | 23.5 metres |
| Draft | 8.5 metres |
| Speed | 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph)[1] |
| Capacity | 172 passengers |
| Crew | 80 |
RV Akademik Fedorov (Russian: Академик Фёдоров) is a Russian scientific diesel-electric research vessel, the flagship of the Russian polar research fleet.[4] It was built in Rauma, Finland[5] for the Soviet Union and completed on 8 September 1987. It started operations on 24 October 1987, in the USSR.[3] The ship was named after a Soviet polar explorer, academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences Evgeny Fyodorov, who worked on the first Soviet manned drifting ice station North Pole-1.[6]
Research vessel Akademik Fedorov participated in MOSAiC Expedition in 2019-2020 supporting and resupplying the main research icebreaker Polarstern, and also held a six-week course for 20 students for MOSAiC School 2019.[7]
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- ^ Andryushin, Yu.; Solostyanskiy, D. (1986). "(Antarctic Research Ship) Akademik Fedorov". TRID. Washington DC: The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Retrieved 6 April 2016.
- ^ a b c "Information on RV Akademik Fedorov". Federal Target Program World Ocean (in Russian). Archived from the original on 17 April 2013.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 5 July 2007. Retrieved 4 August 2007.
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- ^ "Фёдоров Евгений Константинович". www.warheroes.ru.
- ^ "MOSAiC School 2019". Association of Polar Early Career Scientists. Retrieved 21 January 2019.