"Academician Kurchatov" - a research vessel of the USSR Academy of Sciences , a former flagship of the Academy's expeditionary fleet. The vessel was managed by the Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences named after P. P. Shirshov . Named after I. Kurchatov .
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Description
A series of 7 similar research ships was founded in the mid-1960s on the initiative of I. D. Papanin and M. V. Keldysh .
The design of the hull and the power plant of the vessel were based on the serial model of the passenger ship, the design and construction of the vessel were produced by the Matias Tezen shipyard in Wismar ( GDR ) [1] .
The length of the vessel was 123 m, width 17 m, draft 5 m, displacement 6800 tons. The crew numbered 70 people, not counting 80 people. research staff.
Launching took place in 1966 . In the course of research activities, Akademik Kurchatov visited 53 expeditionary expeditions, covering almost 2 million kilometers. The vessel was written off by the Academy of Sciences in 1991 , after being written off it was used for passenger transportation [1] . On May 11, 2001, in the port of Mumbai (formerly Bombay), the former flagship of the Soviet academic fleet "Akademik Kurchatov" was cast ashore for cutting "into needles" [2] .
The anchor of the vessel was installed in Moscow at the intersection of Nakhimovskiy Prospect and Novocheromushkinskaya Street [3] . In honor of the R / V “Akademik Kurchatov” Kurchatov Trench (coordinates: 120 ° 40' — 130 ° 30'W) in the Pacific [4] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Stryuk V. “Akademik Kurchatov” - it was as if yesterday!
- ↑ Expeditionary research in the RV “Dmitri Mendeleev” flights and their main scientific results | KM.RU abstracts . www.km.ru. The appeal date is May 17, 2016.
- ↑ Onfoot.ru - Moscow sights.
- ↑ Alekhina G.N., Ushakova M.G., Agapova G.V. Names of scientists and scientific ships of the Institute of Oceanology on the map of the World Ocean // Nature . - 2016. - № 8 . - p . 6-14 .
Literature
- Kuznetsov OA, Burenin V.V. Research vessel "Akademik Kurchatov" and its expeditions 1966-1991. - M .: VLADMO, 2000. - 287 p. - ISBN 5-89433-015-7 .