Icebreaker Magadan

Icebreaker Magadan

The Icebreaker Magadan is a large modern Russian icebreaker.cite news
url=http://international.usgs.gov/ipy/updates.shtml
title=International Polar Year 2007-2008: News, Updates & Background
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publisher=United States Geological Survey
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date=2007-2008
accessdate=2008-02-19
quote=] cite news
url=http://www.fesco.ru/en/press-center/news/2006-04-3-00379/?year=2006&month=4
title=Ice breaker MAGADAN research expedition in the Bering Sea is completed
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publisher=Fesco Transport Group
author=
date=April 3 2006
accessdate=2008-02-19
quote=] She was completed in 1982cite news
url=http://www.fesco.ru/en/assets/fleet-fesco/vessels/icebreakers/
title=Fesco Vessels
page=
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publisher=Fesco Transport Group
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accessdate=2008-02-19
quote=] and is the smallest of Fesco Transport Group's fleet of five icebreakers.

pecifications

ervice

*2006: chartered by a joint expedition to survey Walrus abundance.
*2003: participated in a training exercise with vessels of other nations.cite web| url=http://newsfromrussia.com/world/2003/08/25/49517.html| title=The joint Russian-Japanese-Korean exercises start in the Sea of Japan| publisher=Pravda| author=| date=August 25, 2003| accessdate=2008-02-19]
*2000: "Magadan" towed a Russian warship to be broken up in India.cite news| url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=NewsLibrary&p_multi=BBAB&d_place=BBAB&p_theme=newslibrary2&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0F97DF6F3AE2B5D0&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM
title=Russian shipping lines see icebreakers as "impossible luxury"| publisher=ITAR-TASS news agency| author=| date=November 8, 2000| accessdate=2008-02-19| quote=Magadan was towing a Russian warship to India to the breaker's yard.]
*1999: "Magadan" led a rescue effort (March 6) to escort vessels carrying supplies to isolated Kamchatka settlements that were dangerousely short of fuel.cite news| url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=NewsLibrary&p_multi=BBAB&d_place=BBAB&p_theme=newslibrary2&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0F99F770D2C84681&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM
title=Russian Far East: Ice-breaker to help supply Kamchatka District with fuel| publisher=ITAR-TASS news agency| date=March 6, 1999| accessdate=2008-02-10| quote=Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, 6th March, ITAR-TASS correspondent Sergey Borovkov: The Magadan ice-breaker is the last hope of the inhabitants of Karaginskiy District in Koryak Autonomous Area. Only the ice-breaker is capable of making its way through the heavy ice and escort two ships, a tanker and a dry-cargo vessel, which are to deliver diesel fuel and coal for the District's freezing settlements at the port centre of Ossora. ITAR-TASS was told by the Koryak civil defence and...]

ister ships

*"Icebreaker Admiral Makarov
*"Icebreaker Sakhalin
*"Kapitan Khlebnikov
*"Icebreaker Krasin

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