The Kapitan Sorokin is a Russian icebreaker , one of four Kapitan Sorokin - class icebreakers built by the Finnish shipyard Vyartsilya [2] .
| "Captain Sorokin" | |
|---|---|
| Flag |  Russia |
| Ship class and type | Icebreaker |
| Home port | St. Petersburg |
| IMO number | 7413488 |
| Call sign | Uenq |
| Organization | FSUE " Rosmorport " |
| Operator | North-Western Basin Branch of FSUE "Rosmorport" |
| Manufacturer | Wärtsilä ( Wärtsilä ), ( Helsinki ) Finland |
| Launched | 1976 |
| Commissioned | 1977 |
| Status | In operation |
| Main characteristics | |
| Displacement | 17280 t |
| Length | 129.39 m |
| Width | 26.74 m |
| Height | 56.5 m |
| Draft | 8.5 m |
| Travel speed | 18 knots (Max.) |
| Autonomy swimming | 28 days |
| Crew | 49 [1] |
The vessel is named after the polar explorer, the third-rank general director of the Northern Sea Route Mikhail Yakovlevich Sorokin [3] .
1978-1997 based in Murmansk . He worked year-round on the highway Murmansk - Dudinka [2] .
Since 1997, the icebreaker has been owned by FSUE “ Rosmorport ” and St. Petersburg has become the home port. In the season of winter navigation works in the Gulf of Finland [2] .
In the late 1990s, he underwent a refit at the shipyards in Germany with a change in nose shape [2] .