Aleksey Chirikov (icebreaker)
| History | |
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| Name: | Aleksey Chirikov |
| Namesake: | Aleksei Chirikov |
| Operator: | Sovcomflot |
| Port of registry: |
Saint Petersburg,  Russia
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| Ordered: | 16 December 2010 |
| Builder: | Arctech Helsinki Shipyard, Helsinki, Finland |
| Cost: | $100 million |
| Yard number: | 507 |
| Laid down: | 3 July 2012 |
| Launched: | 23 November 2012 |
| Completed: | 19 April 2013 |
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| Status: | In service |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Platform supply vessel |
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| Beam: | 21.20 m (69.6 ft) (moulded) |
| Draught: | 7.90 m (25.9 ft) |
| Depth: | 11.00 m (36.09 ft) |
| Ice class: | RMRS Icebreaker6 |
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| Endurance: | 30 days |
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| Crew: | 50 |
Aleksey Chirikov is a Russian icebreaking platform supply and standby vessel owned by Sovcomflot. She and her sister ship, Vitus Bering, were ordered on 16 December 2010 from Arctech Helsinki Shipyard in Helsinki, Finland, shortly after the joint venture agreement between STX Finland Cruise Oy and United Shipbuilding Corporation had been signed. Aleksey Chirikov was delivered on 19 April 2013. She will be used in the Arkutun-Dagi offshore oil field in the Sea of Okhotsk.
Only six days after the agreement for the formation of the company was signed between STX Finland Cruise Oy and United Shipbuilding Corporation on 10 December 2010, the newly founded Arctech Helsinki Shipyard received an order for two multipurpose icebreaking supply vessels from the Russian state-owned shipping company Sovcomflot. The value of the shipbuilding contract was US$200 million and the construction of the vessels would provide work for 1,000 man-years. Initially, both ships were set to be delivered to the customer in April 2013, after which they will be used for standby, supply and ice management of an offshore platform operated by Exxon Neftegas Limited in the Arkutun-Dagi offshore oil field, located in the Sea of Okhotsk.
Although the ship are constructed at Arctech Helsinki Shipyard, the majority of the steel blocks are manufactured by the Russian Vyborg Shipyard as the Hietalahti shipyard no longer has such production capacity. Only five of the 42 hull blocks for the two vessels will be manufactured locally in Helsinki while the remaining blocks will be produced and partially outfitted in Vyborg, and then brought to Helsinki on a barge for final outfitting, painting and hull assembly. The production of the second vessel was started in Helsinki on 2 November 2012.
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