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Cruise Ships and Icebreakers in Spitsbergen
 



 CRUISE SHIPS
 ICEBREAKERS



M/V Polar Star was built in Finland in 1969 and served in the Swedish Maritime Administration’s fleet of icebreakers.
Today it is operated by Polar Star Expeditions as Expedition Cruise Ship.
The Polar Star carry a maximum of 105 passengers.

The Grigoriy Mikheev and Alexsey Maryshev are modern research vessels of the Hydrographic Institute of St. Petersburg.
With their ice-strengthened hull, The Grigoriy Mikheev and Alexsey Maryshev can navigate polar seas where many other vessels cannot.

Professor Molchanov, Professor Multanovskiy and Akademik Shokalskiy are Oceanographic Ice-Class Research Vessel.
Continuously refurbished since their conversion for passenger use, the Professor Molchanov and Professor Multanovskiy
are ideally suited for expedition cruising.

PFS Polarstern, a German research ice-breaker, is currently the most sophisticated polar research vessel in the world.
Designed as a research and supply vessel, the Polarstern has completed a total of 27 expeditions
to the Arctic and Antarctic since 1982. The Polarstern is operated by the Stiftung Alfred Wegener Institut für Polar und Meeresforschung (AWI).

Built in Finland in 1981 by the Wartsila Company (world's leading builder of icebreakers), the Kapitan Khlebnikov
is a diesel electric icebreaker. It was designed for working in Arctic waters during winter around Siberia, to keep northern navigational routes opened.
It was the first ship ever to circumnavigate Antarctica with passengers in 1997.
The Kapitan Khlebnikov is one of four Kapitan Sorokin class diesel electric ice-breakers.
 
 
 
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  M/V Polar Star - Icebreaker - Expedition Cruise Ship   M/V Polar Star - Icebreaker - Expedition Cruise Ship   Grigoriy Mikheev - Research Ship - Expedition Cruise Ship   Grigoriy Mikheev - Research Ship - Expedition Cruise Ship  
Professor Molchanov - Research Ship - Expedition Cruise Ship PFS Polarstern - Icebreaker - Research Ship PFS Polarstern - Icebreaker - Research Ship Kapitan Khlebnikov - Icebreaker - Expedition Cruise Ship
Yamal - Nuclear Icebreaker - Expedition Cruise Ship   Noorderlicht - Two-masted Schooner - Cruise Ship Professor Multanovskiy - Research Ship - Expedition Cruise Ship R/V Lance - Research Ship - Norsk Polarinstitutt
 

 CRUISE SHIPS AND ICEBREAKERS IN SPITZBERGEN



 Yamal and Nuclear Icebreakers in Spitzbergen

Yamal ( Quark Expeditions) and others nuclear icebreakers like Sovietskiy Soyuz are not allowed to enter the coastal waters of Spitzbergen. Norwegian authorities, sensitive to the ships twin hazards, says development of tourism in the area should not include the use of nuclear powered vessels.

Built in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1992 by Murmansk Shipping Company, the nuclear icebreaker Yamal is one of five ice-breakers in the Arktika class. This icebreaker has taken passengers to the North Pole since 1993.
The Yamal carries a maximum of 100 passengers. This icebreaker carries helicopters for reconnaissance and passenger excursions.
The Yamal and her sister ships must cruise in cold water, in order to cool their reactors. As a result, they cannot pass through the tropics to undertake voyages in the Southern hemisphere.

 Bellona article about Sovietskiy Soyuz in Spitzbergen
Nuclear tourist voyage to the North Pole- Bellona News

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