Yamal (icebreaker)

The Yamal moves on ice

Russian Maritime Register of Shipping

IMO no. 9077549

The Yamal (Russian Ямал ) is a Russian nuclear-powered icebreaker Arktika the class. The ship's name is written in the German transcription Jamal.

Meaning of the name

Was named the ship after the Yamal Peninsula in northwestern Siberia, whose name means as much as the end of the world in the language of their native inhabitants, the Nenets.

Construction

The keel laying took place in 1986 in Leningrad in the traditional shipyard Baltiskie Zavod ( Baltic Shipyard ) instead. Since 1856 large ocean-going vessels to be built in this shipyard on the Neva. The Yamal was completed as a result of the collapse of the Soviet Union only in 1992. Initially, they should be free to keep the shipping lanes in the Arctic Ocean, but it is conditional, used differently than planned by the political changes - namely, among others, as an expedition ship into the northern polar region.

The Yamal is one with 75,000 hp maximum power remains the strongest icebreakers in the world. The Yamal has a double outer shell. The outer shell is in the places that regularly come in contact with ice up to 48 mm, 25 mm thick otherwise. There is water ballast between the outer and the inner shell. The ship may break up to five meters thick ice, nine -meter-thick ice floes were singled already broken.

Comments

The Yamal and her sister ships absolutely need cold seawater to cool its nuclear reactors, so they could never run in Antarctica, because it requires the crossing of tropical waters is essential.

With fresh fuel rods, the Yamal can theoretically operate up to five years without calling at a port. 86 sensors are distributed throughout the vessel, continuous monitoring the radioactivity on board.

The Yamal was the twelfth ship (except for various military submarines ) ever to reach the North Pole.

Pictures

The Yamal in Murmansk, 2009

Constructions of the Yamal