SOVETSKIY SOYUZ nuclear icebreaker

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The stamp has the inscription with the ships name VAYGACH but the designer has made a mistake, the icebreaker depict is the SOVETSKIY SOYUZ. From my Russia contact Mr. Sitnikov I received many images of prestamped envelopes which depict the SOVETSKIY SOYEZ.

Built as a nuclear icebreaker under yard No 703 by Baltiyskiy Zavod shipyard in Leningrad, for the Russian Government.
31 October 1986 launched as the SOVETSKIY SOYUZ one of the Arktika class.
Tonnage 20,646 grt, 6,194 nrt, 2,752 dwt, dim. 150.0 x 30.0 x 17.20m., length bpp. 130.56, draught 11.00m.
Powered nuclear-steam-electric, two steamengines TGG-27,5 OM5 each 27,600 kW, three electric motors each 16,600 kW, three shafts, speed 21 knots.
Accommodation for?
29 December 1989 completed. Homeport Murmansk.

During 1991 and 1992 she made tourist voyages to the North Pole.
March 2002 was she moored in Murmansk where she supplied coastal assets with power, it was the first time that a Russian nuclear icebreaker supplied power to shore installations.
2004 Was one of three icebreakers which took part in the research of global warming and the impact on the Arctic.
2007 Moored in Murmansk, in reserve and used for spare-parts for other Russian nuclear icebreakers.
From 2011 in repair and refuelled.
2014 In service, owner Russian Federation, IMO No 8838582.
Mozambique 2009 33.00 MT sg?, scott?
Source: internet and Russian Maritime Register of Shipping.