KAPITAN A RADZHABOV tug/icebrekaer

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Built under yard No. 410 as an icebreaker/tug by OY Wärtsilä AB, Helsinki, Finland for Caspian Administration of Salvage, Rescue, Underwater & Towing Operations, Russia.
Launched under the name KAPITAN A. RADZHABOV, two sisters the KAPITAN M. IZMAYLOV and KAPITAN KOSOLAPOV.
Tonnage 1.362 gross, 354 dwt., dim. 56.5 x 17.7 x 4.2m. (draught).
Powered by four 8-cyl Wärtsilä diesels, 5.360 hp., two electro motors a 1.700 hp, speed 13 knots.
All three were built in 1976.

1992 Transferred Caspian Basin Salvage, Baku Azerbaijan, not renamed.
2010 http://www.equasis.org gives, IMO No. 7406332, owned and managed by Caspian Basin Salvage, Baku, and still in service.

Azerbaijan 1994 50m sg183, scott437a

Source: Soviet Bloc Merchant Ships by Block. Lloyds Register 88/89. Navicula.