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Volodarsky (ship)
''Volodarsky'' is the oldest ship in the Murmansk Shipping Company fleet. The ship was constructed in 1929 and is of riveted steel plate construction. Until 1986 the ship was used to transport solid radioactive waste from Atomflot to the west side of Novaya Zemlya for dumping into the Barents Sea The Barents Sea ( , also ; no, Barentshavet, ; russian: Баренцево море, Barentsevo More) is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean, located off the northern coasts of Norway and Russia and divided between Norwegian and Russian territo .... As of 1995, the ship had 14.5 metric tons of low- and medium-level waste stored aboard. In 2014, the recycling of the "Volodarsky" depot ship was completed. References Ships of Russia Murmansk Shipping Company 1929 ships {{ship-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murmansk Shipping Company
Murmansk Shipping Company (russian: Мурманское морское пароходство), often abbreviated as MSCO, is a Russian shipping company based in Murmansk (hence the name). One of the primary shipping companies operating in Arctic Russia and northern Europe, as of 2014 the company has 303 vessels, with a total deadweight of about 1.2 million tons. The company runs a notable museum in Murmansk. History The company was established in 1939 as the Murmansk State Dry-Cargo and Passenger Shipping Company, and was renamed to its present name in 1967. It specialised in arctic transportation, and by 1940 it had 37 vessels with a total deadweight of 112,200 tons. During World War II its carriers served as allied escorts. It performs passenger as well as cargo navigation. In 1973, the Northern Fleet and the Murmansk Shipping Company commenced transporting spent nuclear fuel by barges to Murmansk, and then delivering it to Mayak by train. In 1977, one of its ships, the nucl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
